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Showing compassion is a crucial leadership skill because it garners trust, revealing to those under you that you care for them as individuals, not just the work they can produce for you. 

Who does the responsibility for encouraging diversity in the workplace fall upon? in many cases, you. Here are 10 places to start in your effort to transform your environment to be more productive, inclusive, and welcoming for everyone.

Most hiring teams just flat out aren't prepared to control biases during an interview. Executive director of The Broad Center and author of Mastering the Hire, Chaka Booker, recommends selecting a diverse range of reading material for hiring teams to review prior to interviews.

Business storytelling coach Paul Smith offers insight into approaching the challenging topic of diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

In order to lead with cultural intelligence, you must understand the six basic cultural systems within the culture and how they apply to everything from your personnel to your target audience. 

Can you make an impact on an issue as large as workplace diversity if you’re a mid-level manager? Michelle T. Johnson is a diversity consultant who has had a diversity column called The Diversity Code” in the Business Section of the Kansas City Times since 2008. She says diversity, discrimination, and harassment are not only the domain of executives and high-level bosses. 

Despite holding qualifications that are on par with their male peers, research shows that women consistently walk out of negotiations with less. Many experts attribute the outcome to the confidence gap theory, which Lean Out author, Marissa Orr, believes hinges on an assumption that confidence in a situation will outweigh the effects of talent, intellect, effort, and competence. 

Global leadership has a variety of definitions, however, each explanation centers around perceiving context, recognizing differences, understanding what followers want and need, and collaborating throughout the hiring process and employment journey.