All the drama!
If there’s one thing that can be guaranteed during the Olympics, its drama. From what I can see, this games drama seems to centre on women’s outfits and mental health. Let’s start with the fashion.
We have the women’s outfits being too skimpy. Just before the Olympics, the Norwegian women’s beach handball team were fined for wearing shorts rather than the approved skimpy bikini bottoms. And then the German artistic gymnastic team completed in full length unitards and faced criticisim for being too covered. What the?
In other news, Simone Biles has created quite a splash by withdrawing from the gymnastics competition citing mental health challenges, echoing Naomi Osaka’s decision to not participate in media conferences.
As usual everyone has an opinion on women’s bodies, what they wear, and what they do. I would rather celebrate the amazing achievements that every Olympic games brings along. Let’s celebrate the hope and the work and the achievement.
Putting the Olympic drama aside, if you are having drama in diversity and inclusion we would love you to speak to you and support you.
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Last week we learnt from the fab Brooke Black about how she created a flexible work culture. We have summarised all the lessons for you, plus question how inclusion can be measured and hear from Nicholas Patrick on improving his mental health.
Flexibility with Brooke
If you couldn’t join us last week to learn from Brooke Black on building a flexible work culture we have written a great blog post covering the main learnings Read More >
How to measure inclusion in the workplace
In this HBR article Gartner suggests through their research, there are 7 questions that give a wholistic view of inclusion in workplaces. What do you think? Is 7 enough? Read More >
Nicholas Patrick on Mental Health
Nicholas is no stranger to mental health challenges. I loved this discussion with Nick and learnt so much about what makes the difference when things are not going as well as they could.