Frances Campbell

Every June we see the same conversation playing out: large corporations sponsor floats and change their logos to rainbow colours for Pride month. Then, inevitably, a handful of companies are called out for making a show of Pride without offering any tangible support to LGBTQ+ communities, or their own LGBTQ+ employees.

This is what’s known as rainbow-washing.

There’s an ongoing debate around rainbow-washing itself. For some, it's positive that LGBTQ+ people are now included in corporate cultu...

Here at Guider, we’ve been advocating for the benefits of mentoring for years. If you want to see better retention, career progression, and support your diversity & inclusion and wellbeing programs – then get a mentoring program.
But what we need to talk about is the cost of not doing mentoring.
You may think that mentoring is simply nice to have but we firmly believe that it’s essential. In fact, many major businesses seem to agree: 84% of Fortune 500 companies and 100% of Fortune 50 compani...

On Thursday 8th September, we held our first in-person Guider People Network event; a fireside session on inclusion in the workplace.
Run by our Community Manager, Danika, the event brought together professionals from a wide range of industries to discuss the key challenges, and solutions, to creating true inclusion at work.
It was a fantastic event. We were so impressed by how engaged everyone was and the ideas that came out of the session. To celebrate, we’ve put together the key learnings ...

Top takeaways:
Psychological safety is the feeling that there will be no negative consequences from speaking openly, sharing critical information or being vulnerable
It’s essential in mentoring for creating the right space to learn and grow together
You can factor psychological safety into the design of your program by setting clear expectations, providing training, thinking about location and factoring in feedback
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In any relationship, psychological safety and trust are at the core of how a...

In our current remote and digital work environment, knowing how to network effectively online is a handy skill to master. Here I go through the steps I take to grow my connections online:

Let’s be honest, we’ve all hired someone we thought was outstanding that really didn’t work out. Or we’ve been in a recruitment process that sucked, was unfair, and we weren’t able to show our best.
The good news is that spending less time, improving the candidate’s experience, increasing diversity, and actually hiring the most qualified person for a given job is possible. This is where blind recruitment comes in.
I had my first go at blind recruitment a few years back and have since recruite...

It goes without saying that 2020 was a tough year. In both our personal and professional lives managing the stress, anxiety and grief of the pandemic has taken its toll on our wellbeing. While there is hope on the horizon for a better 2021, it looks like we will continue to work digitally and remotely for the foreseeable future and so need to build our support structures around our new way of working.
In a remote and digital age, there are numerous ways to support ourselves and each other, ma...

In a plotline usually reserved for Hollywood heist films, thieves broke into Dresden Palace’s Green Vault in November stealing jewellery of ‘immeasurable worth’. The robbery saw three sets of 18th century jewellery stolen from the collection in what the media are naming the largest art theft in history, estimating the value of items stolen at €1 billion.
However this value is misleading given that the artefacts, despite being priceless, would be near impossible to sell on the market. Marion A...

How can The Institute of Fundraising report help us to support more women to reach leadership roles in Fundraising?
The Institute of Fundraising’s latest report ‘Missing Out: Understanding the female leadership gap in fundraising’ provides detail on how gender is affecting the ability of women to reach the top jobs.
The report showed that 76% of professional fundraisers are women, but only 52% of Directors of Fundraising in the UK’s top 100 charities are women. Women’s routes to leadership ar...