Category: - Carole Copeland Thomas

11/30/2017

Preventing Sexual Harassment: One NO At A Time

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Shockwaves reverberated across America yesterday with the downfall of both NBC’s Matt Lauer and Minnesota Public Radio’s Garrison Keillor in one fell swoop. Yes, we outsiders were shocked, but insiders who knew these men weren’t surprised. What’s even more damning are the scores of their defenders, after they release statements admitting their actions.

Sexual Harassment is widespread, global and a daunting declaration of power and dominance over unsuspecting victims, both female, and male. Announcements about someone getting fired because of sexual harassment triggers incidences that happened years ago, tucked away never to be presented to the light of day.

Sexual Harassment is a PROBLEM. And today’s show will tackle five key issues you should know about when confronting sexual harassment both on and off the job.
From Congress to the break room at work, we all must face the issues of sexual harassment so that it can be contained and eliminated wherever possible.

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10/26/2017

Frank McCarthy, Legacy Career Builder & 5 Ways To Maximize Your Conference Experience

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Frank McCarthy's executive search work spans some 40 years. He has personally placed countless professionals on their jobs throughout New England and beyond, and he keeps on going. I sat down and talked to Frank about what trends he sees for job hunters, where the industry is headed, and how his background as a former Catholic priest shaped his career success.
We'll also share with you Five Ways to maximize your conference experience as we gear up for next week's November 2nd Multicultural Conference. You'll want to take some notes, so get out pen, paper or iPad and let's get you ready for your next conference, convention, symposium and executive retreat.

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About Diverse Workplace:
www.diverseworkplace.com

A native of Medford, Massachusetts, Frank X. McCarthy, the founder of Diverse Workplace, is a diversity recruiting and sourcing pioneer. Over the years he has placed hundreds of individuals at all levels of companies and organizations.

In 2011 the NORTHEAST HUMAN RESOURCES ASSOCIATION gave Frank their annual Diversity Champion Award. In 2013 NEHRA named this award the Frank X. McCarthy Diversity Champion Award. In 2015, BATSA (Boston Area Talent Sourcing Association) awarded Frank their first Lifetime Achievement Award.
In 1973 Frank founded Xavier Associates to do diversity recruiting and candidate sourcing. He sold Xavier Associates in 1999 and in 2002 established Diverse Workplace.

Frank was a Catholic priest in the Diocese of Paterson, NJ. He served in the U.S. Army as a paratrooper chaplain with tours in Korea, Japan, the Second Infantry and the 101st Airborne Divisions. After his military tours he was appointed pastor of an inner city parish in Paterson where he was involved in many projects in the African American and Latino communities. He joined the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity where he worked in Community Action Programs in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

Frank has his M.Ed. in Counseling Psychology from Boston College. He is a former President of the Massachusetts Professional Placement Consultants. He served as President of the Board of Trustees of the Brockton Neighborhood Health Center.

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There's Still Time To Register For The November 2nd Multicultural Conference

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7/6/2017

St. Augustine To Cuba In 8 Days

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Our 2017 Florida Cuba Travel Group

There’s so much to tell about the trip I led from St. Augustine To Cuba that today is just the beginning of a wonderful journey into our historical past. The food, dance, music, and culture provides a window into the resilience and creativity of people, their passions, and their persistence. We’ll start the journey today and continue it in the weeks to come. It’s multiculturalism at its best from Fort Mose to The Woolworth Lunch Counter To Old Havana.

Buckle up and travel with me back in time to an era gone by, but still in our hearts and mind.

6/8/2017

Student SafetyTips, Hiring A Coach & Diversity Realities At Work

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We’re in the middle of graduation season with cars zipping down streets, motorcycles rambling through busy highways and pedestrians dashing off to work at record speed. To a young person who has just graduated from high school or college, the excitement of finishing school may cause them to throw caution to the wind. And when that occurs, accidents or worse could happen.
During today’s show, we’ll share tips and techniques to help remind young people to stay safe while having fun. We’ll walk you through the FREE Student Safety Guide and highlight why this document could save your life.

We’ll also give you 5 great reasons why hiring a coach may be the right decision to propel your career or business to the next level.

And we’ll discuss the preliminary findings of the "Diversity at Work" survey I recently launched.

Carole's Coaching Academy

Complete The Anonymous Diversity Survey

12/1/2016

Immigration Issues In An Ever Changing America

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Graphic Above: Left: US Map With Immigants Right: Denzil Mohammed, Immigration Learning Cente

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As the country still reels from post election shock, one of the central issues facing the America is the fate of immigrant communities across the nation. Demonized by some on the right, the very vibrancy of America is in large part based on the growth and acceptance of immigrants.

Who are they? Where are they? How can we learn more from them? And how can we accept their presence and contributions without fear and hysteria?

Joining us on today’s show is Denzil Mohammed, Director at the Immigration Learning Center Public Education Institute.

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The Immigrant Learning Center, Inc. (ILC) of Malden, MA, is a not-for-profit organization that gives immigrants a voice in three ways. The English Language Program provides free, year-round English classes to immigrant and refugee adults in Greater Boston to help them become successful workers, parents and community members. The Public Education Institute informs Americans about the economic and social contributions of immigrants in our society, and the Institute for Immigration Research, a joint venture with George Mason University, conducts research on the economic contributions of immigrants.

There is extensive data and resources on their website. Visit them at:
www.ilctr.org

Denzil Mohammed, Director, The ILC Public Education Institute
Denzil Mohammed is an intercultural communications professional and journalist who works to build understanding across boundaries utilizing an asset-based approach. He manages specialized online education, a variety of research initiatives and collaborative public events that promote immigrants as economic and social assets to America.

10/6/2016

Salute To The Tuskegee Airmen During Global Diversity Awareness Month

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Email Willie Shellman at [email protected]
or
Buy Your Tickets Online At:
http://bit.ly/2dBwCwQ

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They piloted great airplanes during the critical days of World War II despite the naysayers who declared that black men could not possibly fly. Men of honor and integrity. Men who stared American bred racism and foreign hatred down and fought on anyway. They were the grounds crew. The flight crew. The administrators and leaders of their soldiers. Those who flew the planes. And those who supported or led the squadrons on the ground. And the military and civilian champions following World War II who continue to keep their legacy alive.

This is great American story of the Tuskegee Airmen, whose roots go back 75 years to their beginning in 1941. I am proud to be the daughter of a Tuskegee Airman who bravely served from 1941 to 1946.
As we celebrate Global Diversity Awareness Month throughout October, we salute the 75th Anniversary of the Tuskegee Airmen with our special guest, Willie Shellman.
The New England Chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen will celebrate this great story with a 75th Anniversary Gala set for Thursday October 27th on the Boston Campus of the University of Massachusetts.

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History of the Tuskegee Airmen

For More Information visit: www.tuskegeeairmen.org
This is the official organization for the Tuskegee Airmen, Inc.

The term, "Tuskegee Airmen," refers to the men and women, African-Americans and Caucasians, who were involved in the socalled "Tuskegee Experience", the Army Air Corps program to train African Americans to fly and maintain combat aircraft. The Tuskegee Airmen included pilots, radio operators, navigators, bombardiers, aircraft maintenance, support staff, instructors, and all the personnel who kept the planes in the air. Virtually all black military pilots during World War II received their primary flight training at Moton Field and then their basic and advanced flight training at Tuskegee Army Air Field (TAAF).

Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. (TAI) is headquartered in Tuskegee, Alabama (about 35 miles east of Montgomery), where the training of black military pilots during World War II began. There are currently 57 active chapters of TAI located in major cities and military installations throughout the United States.

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October is Global Diversity Awareness Month, a celebratory time period I created more than 18 years ago to highlight the importance of expanding your reach beyond your own race, culture or ethnicity.

Click Here To Learn More About Global Diversity Awareness Month

9/5/2016

Back To School Labor Day Book Sale

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Reading good books help enhance your perspective of the world around you. That's why this Labor Day weekend special can help you, your family members, students, colleagues and co-workers get ahead both on and off your job.

Carole's three books are the perfect addition to your library. From global diversity to women's empowerment to starting or expanding your journal writing, these books are for YOU.

All three books are discounted until Wednesday September 7th. Great gift items for students going back to school, teachers starting the new school year, job seekers or career professionals who need new knowledge.

And they make great gift items for the upcoming holiday season. Buy in bulk and save even more!

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Three Great Books At Fabulously Low Prices

21 Ways to Bring Multiculturalism To Your Job You Home and Your Community
With over 29 years of experience as a speaker, trainer, and global thought leader, Carole Copeland Thomas shares her years of experience with those who are serious about practicing diversity throughout the world.

Straightforward, honest, and practical, 21 Ways To Bring Multiculturalism To Your Job Your Home and Your Community gives you clear ideas on how to proactively manage diversity from training suggestions to social media strategies to travel opportunities.

No more guesswork! This book shows you how to open new channels of information so that you can practice multiculturalism and diversity wherever you go.

Real Women Real Issues
Real Women, Real Issues: Positive Collaborations for Business Success is a unique collaboration between four dynamic women coming together from many years of varied experience and from their mastermind group experience. Out of that experience came the concept of communicating with other women on the importance of maintaining quality personal, professional and business relationships with other people who promote positive living.

Personal Journal
My Personal Journal is step by step instructional guide to daily journal writing, including 60 pre-designed forms to begin the process. Based on the 40 volumes of journals Carole has written since the death of her teenage son in 1997, this book is designed to help you develop a solid routine of empowering your life through regular entries of your life's journey.

Scientific data now proves that regular journaling (writing therapy) can improve your mind, body and spirit by documenting the joys, sorrows, hopes and aspirations of your life. This book will help transform your thoughts and emotions into credible action steps for now and in your future.
Social Psychologist Dr. James Pennebacker is a leading expert on the power of journaling. Wikipedia notes that “over the course of his career, Pennebaker has studied the nature of physical symptoms, health consequences of secrets, expressive writing, and natural language, and has received grants from the National Science Foundation, The National Institutes of Health, the US Army Research Institute, and other federal agencies for studies in language, emotional and social dynamics.”

So there mounting evidence that regular journal writing POSITIVELY impacts your mind, body and spirit! Daily stories of things that happen in your life each day are worth jotting down in a notebook to keep forever.

Buy one, two or buy all three!

Spread the knowledge with your friends, family and colleagues. Get your books today!
-Carole Copeland Thomas

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1/21/2016

How To Create A Mission Statement That Makes Sense And Moves Your Message Forward

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There’s big difference between a mission statement and a vision statement, and today’s show will clarify how they differ. We’ll give you a step by step plan to establish your own personal mission statement that will enhance your business, your service organization or even your family unit.
Creating a mission statement can be simple and easy. Now is a good time to determine the most effective way to position yourself in a clear and concise manner that will deliver the right type of message to help you grow and expand your base.
Get out your pen, paper and your thinking cap and let’s get busy creating a mission statement that will work for you!

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Carole's Mission Statement:

Carole Copeland Thomas and C. Thomas and Associates are content providers delivering presentation programs, consulting initiatives and live events to audiences large and small throughout the world. The focus on their services highlight positive change to global diversity, multiculturalism, inclusion, leadership, empowerment and women's issues. C. Thomas and Associates is a full service training and consulting practice founded by Carole Copeland Thomas in 1987.

12/31/2015

Leaving 2015 In Our Rear View Mirror As We Embrace The New Year

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No matter how hard you try, you can’t hold on to 2015. It’s nearly over and you must move on to the New Year.
Very much like driving a car, the rear view mirror helps us to anchor those things behind us. But you can’t drive a care totally looking through that mirror. It’s a reference point….that helps you measure the distances of events now gone.
Much like that rear view mirror, you must learn from your mistakes, celebrate your victories and move on to your future. 2015 is almost gone and 2016 is a brand New Year!
On today’s show we’ll look at ways where we can celebrate your great achievements of 2015. We’ll also look at New Year’s Eve practices of old, including the tradition of Watch Night still very important in the Black Community.
We’ll trace the history of the New Year’s song Auld Lang Syne…
And we’ll determine how to put your best foot forward in 2016 so that you can better predict how to succeed, achieve AND cope with the realities of the new frontier.
Happy New Year To You And Your Family From Carole Copeland Thomas

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History of Auld Lang Syne
Source: Wikipedia

"Auld Lang Syne" is a Scots poem written by Robert Burns in 1788 and set to the tune of a traditional folk song (Roud # 6294). It is well known in many countries, especially in the English-speaking world, its traditional use being to bid farewell to the old year at the stroke of midnight. By extension, it is also sung at funerals, graduations and as a farewell or ending to other occasions. The international Boy Scout youth movement, in many countries, uses it as a close to jamborees and other functions.
The song's Scots title may be translated into standard English as "old long since", or more idiomatically, "long long ago", "days gone by" or "old times". Consequently, "For auld lang syne", as it appears in the first line of the chorus, might be loosely translated as "for (the sake of) old times".
The phrase "Auld Lang Syne" is also used in similar poems by Robert Ayton (1570–1638), Allan Ramsay (1686–1757), and James Watson (1711) as well as older folk songs predating Burns. Matthew Fitt uses the phrase "In the days of auld lang syne" as the equivalent of "Once upon a time..." in his retelling of fairy tales in the Scots language.

Robert Burns sent a copy of the original song to the Scots Musical Museum with the remark, "The following song, an old song, of the olden times, and which has never been in print, nor even in manuscript until I took it down from an old man." Some of the lyrics were indeed "collected" rather than composed by the poet; the ballad "Old Long Syne" printed in 1711 by James Watson shows considerable similarity in the first verse and the chorus to Burns' later poem, and is almost certainly derived from the same "old song".
Should Old Acquaintance be forgot,
and never thought upon;
The flames of Love extinguished,
and fully past and gone:
Is thy sweet Heart now grown so cold,
that loving Breast of thine;
That thou canst never once reflect
On old long syne.
CHORUS:
On old long syne my Jo,
On old long syne,
That thou canst never once reflect,
On old long syne.It is a fair supposition to attribute the rest of the poem to Burns himself.

MODERN TRANSLATION
Source: www.english-zone.com

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days o’ lang syne!
Chorus:
For auld lang syne, my dear
For auld lang syne,
We’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet
For auld lang syne!
We twa hae run about the braes,
And pu’d the gowans fine,
But we’ve wander’d mony a weary foot
Sin’ auld lang syne.
We twa hae paidl’t in the burn
Frae morning sun till dine,
But seas between us braid hae roar’d
Sin’ auld lang syne.
And there’s a hand, my trusty fiere,
And gie’s a hand o’ thine,
And we’ll tak a right guid willie-waught
For auld lang syne!
And surely ye’ll be your pint’ stoup,
And surely I’ll be mine!
And we’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet
For auld lang syne!

12/25/2015

Christmas Greetings From Carole

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For Christians, Jesus is the reason for the Season. But for humanity, Christmas provides an opportunity for all of us to stop, count our blessings while we enjoy the holiday season with friends and family. Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and ALL faiths can join in the spirit of Christmas with prayers of Peace on Earth, Good Will to ALL Men and Women!

One of the BEST movies that you can watch this Christmas is "It's A Wonderful Life," the 1946 classic starring Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed. You will count your blessings after watching that film no matter what your circumstances, challenges or problems happen to be. I watched it for the umpteenth time last night and found new reasons to count my blessings.

From my home to yours I wish you the very best throughout the season. Celebrate, reflect and live another day knowing that YOU are making the difference in someone's life both now and in the future.

Merry Christmas!!

-Carole Copeland Thomas