Nowhere is this shown better than in his Slack blog post on staying productive as an executive. Based on his own experiences, Kwok recommends combining big strategies and small hacks to stay productive despite a busy schedule. This includes simple things like learning keyboard shortcuts to big-picture ideas such as scheduling time for thinking and organizing tasks around your own productivity levels. . Donna Morris is the CHRO and EVP of employee experience at Adobe. MORE

RitaMitjans : Mom, Harvard ’90, Chief Diversity & Corporate Social Responsibility Officer. ” @Adobe : Changing the world through digital experiences. cgoldt08 : Product Leader at Workday. Equal Housing Lender. Diversity != MORE

The best brands don’t just sell a product or service, they connect with their audience and create experiences that keep customers coming back for more. Ann Lewnes – Lewnes is the CMO of Adobe and is responsible for Adobe’s marketing and communications efforts worldwide. Prior to Adobe, she was the VP of marketing for Intel. Follow Ann for her passion for creativity and the arts, and updates from Adobe. ( @alewnes ). MORE

To qualify for inclusion in the Learning Management Systems (LMS) category, a product must: Deliver online course content to learners. Your sales, service and partner teams can easily receive just-in-time training; improving skills, competency and product knowledge. MORE

The discussion covered topics ranging from decision-making, the purpose and scope of analytics, culture and values, teams, motivation, diversity, performance management, and perseverance. People Analytics can be used to drive better business outcomes in productivity, team performance, diversity, and leadership. A panel on diversity also raised questions about how to frame diversity and the end goal of performance. MORE

Fostering a diverse culture that values different views and approaches has helped us create applications relevant to our customers’ needs and ultimately improve how people work. To further our efforts, Workday recently hired Patty Nishimura Dingle as director of Belonging & Diversity. MORE

Today is Equal Pay Day, and the news isn’t sunny—women are still paid less than their male colleagues, women of color are paid even less than their white peers, and progress in reaching parity is maddeningly slow. Today is an exercise in calling attention (yet again) to the glaring gap between men's and women's wages, which has been closing by less than a half cent per year since the enactment of the Equal Pay Act in 1963. It’s that bad. MORE

Widening skill gaps, the corporate glass ceiling and questions of diversity, equality and corporate responsibility continue to echo. How can you create productive, collaborative partnerships between colleagues who may never meet face-to-face? MORE

Figured the day before Equal Pay Day (that’s right, that’s tomorrow!) would be a perfect time to tell you about a pretty interesting teleconference I sat in on recently. The topic, you guessed it, was gender-pay equity. MORE

Equally important there is a need to renew the relationships that make it possible for organizational members to work virtually toward a common goal. 3 Cisco’s study of 2000 of their teleworkers in five global regions provided an estimated $277 million in annual productivity savings, and more than 47,000 metric tons of greenhouse gases avoided. Cisco’s study shows that remote employees are most productive and creative when allowed to self-manage. MORE