by Joyce Osland | Apr 25, 2022 | ICI, Leadership
Competencies are defined as traits, dispositions, attitudes, and behaviors that lead to high performance in a specific setting or context. Identifying the appropriate competencies for a particular task, job or project helps, and evaluating whether or not a particular...
by Joyce Osland | Mar 30, 2022 | Education, ICI
Creating an inclusive learning community involves mindful design and teaching so that each student feels that their perspective and experience is valued. It implies that there are processes in place to foster friendships, relationships, and mutual respect among...
by Joyce Osland | Mar 26, 2021 | Education, Global Skills, IES
With both the Pandemic shutting down global travel and increasing awareness of program costs, universities are looking for alternatives to sending students abroad for cultural experiences. Recently, some alternative approaches have surfaced that are very...
by Joyce Osland | Nov 20, 2020 | GCI, Global Skills, IES, Leadership
In workplaces around the globe, we can readily see the negative results of diversity misunderstandings and mismanagement in the form of unnecessary tensions and underutilized talent. How managers and organizations handle diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) plays a...
by Joyce Osland | Jul 4, 2019 | ICI, Leadership
How weird can you be in a major corporation and still keep your job? Kathleen McDonald, a former organization development team leader who was responsible for a project on managing diversity at Exxon, devised an eccentricity model to help employees answer that very...
