When organizations focus on opening only one seat for diverse members, they address diversity — but they may be opening the door for unintended harm. So, how can organizations focus on both diversity and inclusion?
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Impactful D&I initiatives help companies attract and retain the most qualified talent, increase job satisfaction, foster innovation and create the potential for greater financial success.
Despite many well-intentioned diversity efforts, however, we still find mostly white men at the top of organizations. What’s getting in the way?
We all know that diversity is important, but without inclusion and belonging, your organization won’t maximize the benefits that diversity brings.
Businesses that invest in D&I training open their doors to more people; minimize harm and discomfort within their walls; and make their organization a better, more welcoming place for their employees.
Unconscious bias training is grounded in a commitment to the advantages of workforce diversity, which include fostering increased creativity, enhancing teamwork, and achieving exemplary customer service and community relations.
We still lack data proving that unconscious bias training is resulting in women’s gaining representation in the C-suite or in significant progress toward pay equality. In fact, some experts say the problem of gender inequality is expanding.
Our perceptions are unique, based on our past knowledge, experience, and cultural norms and assumptions. How might trainers’ biases, inaccurate perceptions, assumptions and expectations affect the success of training and impede in successful learning?
What would true workplace diversity look like? When asked this question, many people tend to describe an image of an ethnically diverse team with an equal amount of men and women. However, workplace diversity covers more than race and gender.
To address unintentional bias, we need to foster intentional behaviors that create change. Here are strategies, informed by clinical psychology, that both men and women can put it into practice every day to create a more equal working environment.