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Nov 23 2022

Constructing Rainbows - Data, values and middle management

Inclusion update for the built environment and renewables industries
Newsletter 33: Data, values and middle management
Constructing Rainbows advises built environment and renewables organisations across the globe who have an aim of making our industry inclusive for all. To find out more visit www.constructingrainbows.co.uk
This newsletter will provide you with some updates on what others are doing, within the built environment, renewables and in other industries.
RIBA selects its first black and youngest ever president (who even works for a contractor!) and he wants a shake up
Elderly white men in bow ties have tended to run the very grand and possibly even stuffy Royal Institute of British Architects. Muyiwa Oki, its youngest boss ever at 31, spells out his vision for unions, the climate crisis and island-buying oligarchs
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This is a really exciting development at RICS who are starting to collect demographic data of their members.
Data is so important in any organisation. It helps us to really understand where challenges exist so we can pinpoint where to focus our DEI efforts to have biggest impact.
Australian Indigenous leaders say ‘need to be’ at climate table
As COP27 has just finished, it is clear we need diverse representation around the table if we are going to find solutions to the climate crisis.
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From the Pilbara to Broken Hill, a team of volunteer tradeswomen is conducting workshops teaching young women how to use tools in the hope they will consider a trade — and it's working.
Nearly two-thirds of staff will quit if employer doesn’t share their values, study finds

Experts warn that businesses need to prioritise sustainability or risk losing out on talent
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The gender insecurity gap
New analysis of UK labour market data has identified a gender insecurity gap, with working women nearly twice as likely as working men to be in severely insecure work – and the situation worsens for mothers, disabled women and women from specific ethnic minority backgrounds. 
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Why Middle Managers Struggle to Implement DEI Strategies

To successfully achieve DEI change, organizational leaders must understand the implementation challenges faced by middle managers and incorporate their specific needs into policy development. The authors identify two key tensions faced by middle managers — the autonomy vs. control tension, and the short-term vs. long-term tension — and offer strategies for leaders to help middle managers navigate them.
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Why You Should Create a “Shadow Board” of Younger Employees
Shadow boards can help companies with two pressing issues: Millennial workers’ dis-engagement and executive teams’ inability to keep up with changing market conditions. They can help with business model reinvention, cultural transformation, and process redesign. 
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Women in the workplace report 2022
Women are demanding more from work, and they’re leaving their companies in unprecedented numbers to get it. Women leaders are switching jobs at the highest rate we’ve ever seen—and at a higher rate than men in leadership.
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Working mothers looking for new jobs as inflation spikes
More than half (55%) of working mothers in the UK have said they will look for new jobs in the next 12 months, according to research from employment support service Working Mums.
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Retired workers recruited back into the workforce
Almost three quarters (72%) of UK employers are looking to hire workers who retired during the pandemic, according to research from LinkedIn. 
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The UK class pay gap 2022
This research sets out the latest class pay gap figures and includes a breakdown by ethnicity, gender, profession and geographical region.
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Building Inclusivity: Ethnic minorities roundtable round up
I joined ACE for their recent ethnic minorities roundtable you can read more here about overcoming barriers.
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Kindness & Leadership 50 leading lights
The Kindness & Leadership 50 leading lights have been released for World Kindness Day, and I am pleased to see good friend and client, Amanda White from RES on the APAC list.
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Bianca Jones is Managing Director of EDP Training and provides training to organisations around Mental Health & Racism specifically the impact it has on the mental health of people of colour in the workplace .

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