Assess and Remediate Diversity Problems throughout the Employee Lifecycle
Move beyond affirmative action to improve the bottom line.
- Despite the proven benefits of diverse workplaces, many organizations struggle with ineffective programs that fail to create an inclusive culture.
- Existing diversity programs often lack continuity, focusing on events rather than creating an inclusive culture.
- Too many organizations still focus on quotas or minimum legislative compliance rather than creating an inclusive culture when it comes to diversity. This often leads to resentment among employees and management.
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Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Diversity is not just about ensuring compliance with affirmative action or employment equity legislation – it’s about valuing differences among individuals and leveraging them.
- To benefit the organization, diversity must be aligned with business goals and supported throughout the employee lifecycle and at all levels of the organization.
- Diversity is not static. A successful diversity strategy requires goal-setting, metrics, and accountability measures to evaluate progress and plan for the future.
Impact and Result
- Make a business case for re-evaluating your diversity program.
- Understand why you must address diversity issues now.
- Choose the right metrics to measure diversity in your organization.
- Diagnose your diversity problems at the retention, promotion, and hiring stages of employment, as well at an organization-wide level.
- Determine the appropriate remedies for your diversity problems.
- Document your diversity improvement plan.
- Implement accountability for supporting diversity in your organization.
Workshop: Assess and Remediate Diversity Problems throughout the Employee Lifecycle
Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn't enough, we offer low-cost delivery of our project workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a roadmap in place to complete your project successfully.
Module 1: Diagnose Organization-wide and Hiring Diversity Obstacles
The Purpose
To Understand:
- Diversity goals.
- Hiring diversity obstacles.
- Remediation tactics for both organization-wide and hiring diversity obstacles.
Key Benefits Achieved
Having engaged in this process, you will be able to:
- Gain buy-in for addressing diversity now.
- Articulate your organization’s diversity drivers, goals, and success metrics.
- Identify organization-wide obstacles to diversity and appropriate remedies.
- Identify obstacles to hiring diverse employees and appropriate remedies.
Activities
Outputs
Define organizational diversity goals and metrics.
- Diversity goals and metrics.
Diagnose promotion obstacles and identify remedies.
Diagnose hiring obstacles and identify remedies.
- Identified organizational diversity remedies
Module 2: Diagnose Retention and Promotion Diversity Obstacles
The Purpose
After completing this section, you will understand:
- Retention and promotion diversity obstacles.
- Remediation tactics.
- How to prioritize and tackle your diversity remedies.
Key Benefits Achieved
Having engaged in this process, you will be able to:
- Identify obstacles to retaining and promoting diverse employees and appropriate remedies.
- Articulate a comprehensive, high-level plan for remediating diversity obstacles in your organization.
Activities
Outputs
Diagnose retention obstacles and identify remedies.
Diagnose promotion obstacles and identify remedies.
Create a long-term diversity improvement plan.
- Diversity improvement plan.
About McLean & Company
McLean & Company is an HR research and advisory firm providing practical solutions to human resources challenges via executable research, tools, diagnostics, and advisory services that have a clear and measurable impact on your business.
What Is a Blueprint?
A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your HR problems.
Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.
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Get the help you need in this 1-phase advisory process. You'll receive 6 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.
- Call 1: Diversity Goal Setting
Remediating your diversity pain points starts with goal setting. Use your organization’s business objectives to set appropriate goals.
- Call 2: Organization-Wide Remedies
Organization-wideproblems affect all aspects of diversity. Use the Diversity Diagnostic to create the right remedies.
- Call 3: Hiring Remedies
The right hiring tactics will widen your talent pool. Use the Diversity Diagnostic to address your hiring pain points.
- Call 4: Retention Remedies
Retain your diversity by creating an inclusive atmosphere. Use the Diversity Diagnostic to remedy your employee retention challenges.
- Call 5: Promotion Remedies
Make sure that diverse employees don’t get left behind. Use the Diversity Diagnostic to create inclusive and fair promotion tactics.
- Call 6: Diversity Improvement Plan
Document your action plan before you get started. Get help to pull it all together.
Contributors
Key research contributors include:
- Laraine Kaminsky, Founder, Global LK
- Simma Lieberman, President, Simma Lieberman Associates
- Glenn Llopis, President, Glenn Llopis Group
- Nina Nazarshoeva, HR Coordinator, Canadian Red Cross
- James O. Rodgers, President and Principal Consultant, The Diversity Coach
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