Major Organizations Commit To Diversity and Team Building, Partner with Nationally Recognized Communication Consulting Firm
Major Organizations Commit To Diversity and Team Building, Partner with Nationally Recognized Communication Consulting Firm

"As Bailey Strategic Innovation Group navigated the uncertainty of the last year like everyone else we too discovered that we could have just as much of an impact virtually as we can in person," said Eric M. Bailey. "Our society was ready for a new conversation on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and I'm glad we were able to make ourselves readily available. As we work toward a more inclusive future I look forward to working with these organizations and entities virtually and in-person on their efforts to better Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the workplace."

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Is It My Responsibility To Educate You?
Is It My Responsibility To Educate You?

Everything that you know about the world around you has come from your experiences, education and perceptions. Everything. Humans have an intense psychological belief that what they know about the world is without question, the way the world actually is. This process called “The Illusion of Certainty” is critical because it helps us expedite our understanding of the world but also, it can open us up to discomfort and disbelief when someone shares with us an experience or perception that we haven’t had or cannot imagine.

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There is a way to cure stupidity, W. Chandler experts counsel
There is a way to cure stupidity, W. Chandler experts counsel

There’s an old joke about a patient who visits the doctor and says to him, “Doc, it hurts when I do this.” And the physician responds, “Don’t do that.”

Similarly, attempting to cure stupidity in today’s world can be a frustrating, eternal quest. If you let it.

So, don’t do that, advises a West Chandler man, who has made it his business to address perceived moronic behavior – and there seems to be no shortage of that in these politically charged, pandemic-stressed times.

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How to Improve Your Work-Life Balance
How to Improve Your Work-Life Balance

Instead of thinking of work and life as opposite weights on a scale, we should think of work as a part of life, says Eric M. Bailey, chief executive of Bailey Strategic Innovation Group and author of “The Cure for Stupidity: Using Brain Science to Explain Irrational Behavior at Work.” Mr. Bailey, who earned a master’s degree in leadership and organizational development from Saint Louis University, says his former graduate-school professor, Matthew Grawitch, encouraged him to use an alternative phrase to work-life balance. He uses “work-life, home-life integration” instead. “So we’re really talking about the integration between ourselves at work and then ourselves at home,” Mr. Bailey says. Dr. Grawitch uses the term “work-life interface” for this concept. “It focuses on the idea that every single one of us has a limited amount of resources,” he says. Thinking this way can help people to try to “figure out what is the best way to allow the elements of our lives to work together so that we’re getting the best out of all of it that we can,” says Dr. Grawitch.


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