DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION & BELONGING (DEIB)
DEIB management is critical to your organization’s success. Understanding the current best practices and trends in DEIB is critical to maximizing the benefits of diverse workplace. Realizing that every organization’s culture is different and are at different stages of their diversity journey, we will partner with you to develop a sustainable plan that will help you drive diversity in your organization based on your needs:
- Leadership – Gain senior leadership commitment and support
- Accountability – Develop team and organization goals to hold all accountable for building and cultivating an inclusive culture
- Research/Measurement – Conduct DEIB assessment; metrics; benchmarking
- Education/Training – Curated educational plans; awareness training
- Changes in Culture and Management Systems – Examine recruitment, retention, development, promotion, development, performance appraisals, succession plans, and benefits, to ensure equity for all employees
- Follow-up – Evaluation process, accountability and continuous improvement
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Training
Building the diversity capabilities of your workforce at all levels of the organization is vital to embedding an inclusive culture. Allow us to design and facilitate diversity and inclusion awareness training for your teams. Topics include:
- Unconscious Bias
- Microaggressions/Microinequities
- Inclusive Leadership
- Belonging
- Psychological Safety
- Allyship
- Anti-racism
- Bystander/Upstander
- Equity vs. Equality
- Cultural Competence
- Cultural Heritage/Observance Month Awareness
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Councils
The creation and management of a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Council is an important component for fostering an inclusive organizational culture. A DEI council serves as an organization’s executive governing body for company’s DEI agenda, and is comprised of individuals from different backgrounds and teams. Effective councils contribute leadership, passion, creativity and effort to make the strategies and tactics a reality. Let us assist you with designing, improving or relaunching your DEI Council.
Resource Groups (RGs)
Depending on the organization, Resource Groups are known by many different names—employee resource groups, colleague resource groups, business resource groups, and employee networks, to name a few. These groups have evolved over the last several years from social affinity-based groups to having a huge impact on the business. Maximize the potential of your resource groups by aligning them to business strategies. We can provide tools to assist you with the business case, infrastructure, leadership support, and means to track effectiveness. Also, if you need help launching a new resource group, we can help with that as well.
Diversity Communications Plan
Beyond the DEI team, how well is your DEI plan communicated and understood by colleagues in your company? One of the major challenges of diversity success is being able to effectively communicate the who, what, why, how and when of diversity & inclusion initiatives so that colleagues find the value in the work. Let us partner with you and your internal communications team to prepare an effective communication plan to help garner support and participation from colleagues at all levels of your organization.
