How to spot and change unconscious bias in the workplace
By Ron Price and Stacy Ennis
Unconscious bias matters. Greatly. Not just for the people on the receiving end of bias, but also for the leaders, teams and companies who are missing out on a team that is diversified through age, race, gender and other factors.
By Ron Price & Stacy Ennis, HR.com, October 2019
Building influence and engagement through character, expertise and position
By Stacy Ennis, SmartBrief.com, September 2019
As women, we have experienced great strides in the past few decades. But still, we’re statistically at a disadvantage: only one in five senior leaders are women, and only one in twenty-five are women of color. A staggering 93.4 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs are men, and only one is a woman of color.
Those numbers might not be shocking to you—many of us know them by heart. But they are revealing.
By Ron Price and Stacy Ennis
One of the long-term challenges of the workplace is how many employees feel powerless. For many years, employee surveys around the world have measured levels of engagement as high as 70% or more. What creates levels of disengagement this high? Is it bad managers, as many experts claim? Many have heard the moniker, people leave bad managers, not bad companies. We believe this is overly simplistic.
Instead, we can point to four different causes for employee disengagement:
1. Bad job fit.
By Stacy Ennis, HR.com, February 2019
An Open Conversation About Women in Leadership
It was 7:45 a.m. on a Tuesday. My team and I were waiting on participants for a breakfast meetup we had organized at a global conference. The topic was Women in Leadership.
The meetup was meant to be an open, candid conversation about the state of women in leadership. But the event description included something you don’t often see for these types of meetups: “Men, we hope you’ll join us.”
Guest Post By Stacy Ennis And Ron Price
Today host Dale Dixon talks with Ron Price and Stacy Ennis, authors of Growing Influence, to discuss the premise of the book, the storyline, and the development of the characters. They talk about the book's lesson of growing influence through three dimensions of leadership: character, experts and position. Ron explains how the book can help readers uncover their capacity for influence in their world.
Today host Dale Dixon interviews Executive Advisor Ron Price and Writer/Creative Consultant Stacy Ennis about their new book Growing Influence: A Story of How to Lead with Character, Expertise and Impact. They talk about the inspiration behind this powerful business fable, and how their collaboration influenced the book's direction.
Our guest today is Stacy Ennis. Stacy is a writer, book coach and creative consultant who helps thought leaders, celebrities, Nobel prize winners, and everyday folks translate their thoughts into great writing. Why it’s often difficult for people to write and why consistent writing is important. She also shares step by step how to create an effective writing routine, and how to choose a writing topic.
