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A diversity training success story
Here’s how marketing services firm Ansira was able to help managers recognize their own biases and change their behavior for the better.
What’s holding inclusion back? Leaders’ behavior.
Only 31 percent of employees believe their leaders promote an inclusive environment, according to a recent report by DDI. Numbers like these beg the question, why aren’t leaders more inclusive? There are a few key obstacles holding them back.
Psychological safety: an overlooked secret to organizational performance
Psychological safety is an essential foundational component for innovation, divergent thinking, creativity and risk-taking — but it should not be confused with comfort. There are a number of small behaviors leaders can cultivate to help their teams take more interpersonal risks to increase psychological safety.
Honest feedback plays a critical role in building cultural D&I
D&I initiatives that aim to add more diversity to leadership risk disengagement among some candidates unless efforts are made to ensure all employees maintain trust in the underlying fairness of promotion decisions. This is why timely and accurate feedback to employees on their development gaps and shortcomings is critical.
Checking the DEI box is not enough
Getting serious about diversity, equity and inclusion means going beyond compliance requirements to ensure your training and business strategy truly represents your organization’s values.
Change is incumbent on all of us
What is the role of leadership in the journey to systemic change?
Cultivating a DEI garden where seeds of innovation grow into creative breakthroughs
Research proves time and again that there exists a powerful connection between innovation and diversity, equity and inclusion; our challenge is to build a robust cornerstone for change by optimizing that connection.
Diversity training is the opposite of ‘anti-American’
We all should be committed to the cause of fair and equal treatment of all Americans.
5 moves that actually increase diversity, equity and inclusion
Nearly every Fortune 500 company offers some variety of diversity training, yet many workers still face bias and discrimination. Here are five things you can do to help reduce bias and discrimination in your workplace.
Video: Positioning remote learning for diversity, equity and inclusion
A well-designed learning program can help bring diversity, equity and inclusion to the forefront.
Re-entry in a recession
This time is an opportunity to focus on outreach, inclusion and training.
A look at skills assessments, bias and stereotypes
Do strengths and skills assessments perpetuate gender bias and stereotypes? It’s a complicated question.
Video: Striving for inclusive diversity
Aisha Ghori Ozaki, Allstate’s manager of inclusive diversity, talks about the company's treatment of inclusive diversity as a core value.
The kids are alright
Rather than focusing on differences that are irrelevant to the company’s mission, focus on the energy and fresh talent that every new generation brings. Channel this toward ways to keep the organization competitive and vibrant while also doing a better job of retaining new talent with meaningful work. Here are 4 strategies for leaders to get the best from their younger workers.
Video: How can leaders better support Black employees in the workplace?
During this very human movement — amid social demonstrations, protests for systemic change and public outcry against acts of violence and police brutality — it’s important to also think about how people are impacted in your organization. Leadership should create a safe space for meaningful conversation and posit the organization as a place where Black people and people of color can feel supported.