{"id":10328,"date":"2022-01-24T05:55:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T11:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/?p=10328"},"modified":"2021-12-31T16:04:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T22:04:00","slug":"racism-at-work-get-comfortable-with-being-uncomfortable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/racism-at-work-get-comfortable-with-being-uncomfortable\/","title":{"rendered":"Racism at work: \u2018Get comfortable with being uncomfortable\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The initial discomfort in discussing and facing racism head on, may lead many business owners to delay taking positive action steps.\u00a0 According to experts in this article, &#8220;Leaders need to foster an open dialogue, one where people can speak freely. It\u2019s about moving forward together, at every level of the organization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"1\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcamag.com\/ca\/specialization\/hr-technology\/racism-at-work-get-comfortable-with-being-uncomfortable\/241893\">Racism at work: &#8216;Get comfortable with being uncomfortable&#8217;<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>It&#8217;s fair to say that, when compared with other countries, Canada is a liberal, free, and welcoming nation. But make no mistake about it &#8211; whether overt or subtle, intentional or unintentional, racism lives here. HRD spoke to Tamisha Parris, founder of diversity-consulting firm Parris Consulting and author of UKG&#8217;s recent whitepaper, Combatting Racism in the Workplace.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The initial discomfort in discussing and facing racism head on, may lead many business owners to delay taking positive action steps.\u00a0 According to experts in this article, &#8220;Leaders need to foster an open dialogue, one where people can speak freely. It\u2019s about moving forward together, at every level of the organization.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn-res.keymedia.com\/cms\/images\/us\/036\/0270_637435498826948048.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Racism at work: \u2018Get comfortable with being uncomfortable\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,52],"tags":[10,9,96,53,208,97],"class_list":{"0":"post-10328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"category-hr","9":"tag-business_strategy","10":"tag-businesssuccess","11":"tag-company_culture","12":"tag-humanresources","13":"tag-thought_leadership","14":"tag-workplace"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10328"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10331,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10328\/revisions\/10331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}