The Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group

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The Need for Silence, Spontaneity and Thinking Time in 21st Century Organizations (PDF)

It requires courage and a willingness to take risks to challenge the current norms, but to continue on the current path is not viable in both the short term and the long term. Providing a culture for people to have opportunities for silence, acting spontaneously and thinking time is necessary to innovate and create the solutions that today’s reality requires of 21st Century organizations.

The Path from Exclusive Club to Inclusive Organization (PDF)

Achieving a successful, inclusive, diverse organization requires new styles of leadership, thinking, communication, problem solving and strategic planning.
It requires new organizational structures, practices, benefits plans, behavior
patterns, values, goals—in short,
a complete systemic change.

Road Map for the Path to
Strategic Culture Change (PDF)

Many of today’s organizations face the ultimate choice—change or die. Few organizations are prepared for the magnitude of change that will be required of them if they are to survive and thrive in the next 20 years. Fewer still understand the nature of the change.

IN OUR OWN WORDS

In addition to our conference presentations and public workshops, we highlight our philosophy about changing the conversation through articles published in many industry journals, magazines, newsletters, and e-newsletters. Articles written by people at The Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group, Inc. have been published in Executive Excellence magazine, HRReview, OD Practitioner, the Best Practices Institute newsletter, Chief Learning Officer, ODN Seasonings magazine, among others.

Inclusion 3.5: Our Vision of the Future

In the July/August 2007 issue of the Profiles in Diversity Journal KJCG Executive Vice President Judith Katz and CEO Frederick Miller were named as two of the Pioneers of Diversity. The journal introduced their list of Pioneers by saying, "Miriam Webster's online dictionary defines pioneer as a person or group that originates or helps open up a new line of thought or activity or method or technical development. The word is derived from the old French word peon which means foot soldier. You might say pioneers march into new territory. In the pages that follow, we are featuring the thoughts and ideas of the true pioneers of diversity: those individuals who blazed the trail into the workforce equality long before companies and organizations saw the value of workplace diversity." Judith and Fred wrote "Inclusion 3.5: Our Vision of the Future" that was included in the issue about how creating communities within organizations, connecting, collaborating and bringing your brain to work are how most taks will be accomplished in the 21st Century.

The Next Leap Forward

In the spring 2007 issue of OD Practitioner, KJCG Executive Vice President Judith Katz and CEO Frederick Miller wrote an article titled "The Next Leap Forward." They wrote: "OD practices, principles and approaches lay at the very core of work to leverage differences and create cultures of inclusion so organizations will experience breakthrough performance. OD practitioners play a critical role in challenging clients to aim higher with their inclusion efforts for all people so that they are well-positioned for today’s and tomorrow’s challenges, opportunities, workforce and marketplace. However, many people still see 'diversity in a box' with little connection to significant culture change. For us, in our work for over 30 years in creating cultures of inclusion that leverage differences, culture change efforts are the core intervention to ensure that all people can do their best work and that barriers based on social identity groups are removed, enabling individuals’ talents, backgrounds and experiences to be utilized as an asset to productivity. Differences are not an end in itself, but a doorway to driving
higher operational performance. And it is time for us all to take a leap in our thinking and approach to differences and inclusion."

Tapping the Wisdom of the Ages

KJCG President Corey Jamison also contributed an article for the OD Practitioner issue on "Tapping the Wisdom of the Ages: Ageism and the Need for Multigenerational Organizations." In the article, Corey Jamison writes, "Everyone is talking about the 'Brain Drain'—the Baby Boomer exodus that has already begun to sap organizations of their historical intellectual capital. What is the connection between this and ageism? What can we do, and what can organizations do to offset this drain and leverage the possibilities that will enable all generations to contribute and for individuals to reach their personal goals?

"We need a mindset shift FROM thinking of age as a relatively innocuous
dimension of differences—one where we accept limiting and stereotypical
notions as fact—TO seeing the value inherent in an organization that is truly
multigenerational—that utilizes the best thinking and wisdom of the ages and
leverages opportunities that can only come from cross-generational innovation and creativity."

To read these articles, go to http://www.odnetwork.org/publications/practitioner/index.php

Recently, Judith Katz also contributed the article, "Developing a comprehensive pipeline strategy," (PDF) to the American Society of Training and Development's (ASTD) Links, an email newsletter.