Diversity & Inclusion
Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging are all essential for creating a safe and engaged workplace environment. Learning leaders must strive to fully incorporate and champion DEIB in an organization’s training and development strategy in order to maintain a healthy workplace culture.
Achieving LGBTQ representation in STEM
LGBTQ rights have evolved significantly in the past 30 years, but many STEM companies, IT departments and academic environments are still mired in a culture shaped by bias and exclusion. It’s not easy to rebuild company culture, but leaders who prioritize inclusion will reap the financial and strategic rewards inclusivity can bring.
3 keys to unlock lasting DEI change in organizations
Getting DEI right will require a top-down, sustained and quantified approach to successfully institute the organization-wide changes that are needed to get the most out of the increasingly diverse American workforce. The effective implementation of these three key practices is crucial for any organization operating in the 21st century.
Want to boost the development of underrepresented talent? Strengthen CLO, CDO partnerships
As the role of CDOs evolves, collaborating with CLOs provides a greater opportunity to develop a more diverse and inclusive workforce.
Standards and inclusion
In the rush to implement DEI into corporate culture, there are a bunch of questions I don't often hear anyone ask. And yet, because DEI can represent a fundamental sea-change in corporate culture, in the way we are expected to work, act and comport ourselves, and, indeed, in the way we should even think, difficult questions and conversations are more important than ever.
How to build inclusion into your learning strategy
Now is the time to look long and hard at your learning strategy to ensure its approaches, practices and solutions are providing all employees with a safe, comfortable and dignified learning experience. Here are six ways you can build inclusion into the core of your learning strategies.
How to reduce bias in talent review meetings
There are many strategies to successfully reduce bias when making internal talent career and development decisions.
We cannot afford to leave immigrants out of the workforce diversity conversation
Hiring and providing training and support to immigrants will not only help boost the career prospects of millions of workers, but will help create a workforce that better reflects the communities that companies and organizations aim to serve. In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and a national reckoning with structural racism, this is the path to a stronger and more inclusive workforce that leaves nobody behind.
A robust response to what COVID-19 revealed: a path to resilience and inclusion
Build the capabilities that will make your organization resilient and inclusive by challenging the structures, systems and processes that carry bad assumptions forward.
The urgent need to monetize women’s corporate value
Helping women pinpoint and monetize the value of their contributions is crucial, especially as women are leaving the workforce at an alarming rate.
DEI training in historic times: Lessons learned and the path ahead
Five DEI learning leaders were asked how they thought 2020 went overall. Here’s what they had to say.
My brain is racist. Does that mean I am?
To be human is to be sentient but also capable of change. To change, however, I must first willingly recognize the ways in which my brain has been molded and influenced by my race.
The values-driven leader
Black Lives Matter marches, #MeToo conversations and the volatile recent election are triggering difficult conversations in the workplace about what companies stand for — and whether leaders are demonstrating the values they purport to hold true. Here’s how five companies have transformed employee engagement by tying leadership to organizational values.
The Sherlock Holmes effect
Three clues worth investigating to solve the mystery of D&I.
Video: The pandemic is abating gender equity
According to McKinsey’s 2020 Women in the Workplace survey, as many as 2 million women are considering leaving the workforce.
5 things you, as a learning professional, need to know about disability
We all experience our abilities and impairments differently, and we all have unique learning needs. Only by asking team members about their individual needs — rather than making assumptions — can we truly create more accessible and inclusive learning environments.