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Create a People-First Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Strategy
Blueprint: Culture
Most organizations recognize that there are a number of benefits that come from being inclusive to diverse groups of employees. However, despite the implementation of numerous diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, organizations are still having trouble with making progress.
Build a sustainable DEI strategy by focusing on real people’s experiences to uncover and address systemic inequities.
Create a People-First Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Strategy. Blueprint. blueprint. Culture. Most organizations recognize that there are a number of benefits that come from being inclusive to diverse groups of employees. However, despite the implementation of numerous diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, organizations are still having trouble with making progress.. Build a sustainable DEI strategy by focusing on real people’s experiences to uncover and address systemic inequities..
Build an Employee Referral Program
Blueprint: Talent Acquisition
Download our research to learn how to design a program to encourage diversity, equity, and inclusion; align to your culture and brand; and provide a great employee and candidate experience.
A well-designed program will become one of your top sources of quality hires while also driving engagement, culture, and brand.
Build an Employee Referral Program. Blueprint. blueprint. Talent Acquisition. talent acquisition talent pipeline referrals sourcing metrics benchmarking recommendation referral hiring. Download our research to learn how to design a program to encourage diversity, equity, and inclusion; align to your culture and brand; and provide a great employee and candidate experience.. A well-designed program will become one of your top sources of quality hires while also driving engagement, culture, and brand..
How to Be an Ally
Blueprint: Culture
Give employees the knowledge and tools they need to be allies in the workplace. The How to Be an Ally training deck learning objectives include defining allyship and related core concepts, recognizing allyship accountabilities, and learning how to practice allyship behaviors.
Develop allyship in the workplace by equipping employees with the knowledge and skills they need to become good allies to their colleagues.
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Build an Employee Sponsorship Program
Blueprint: Talent Management
Build an employee sponsorship program to address organizational-level barriers and biases hindering career advancement and leadership diversity.
Address barriers to career advancement and leadership diversity through intentional sponsorship.
Build an employee sponsorship program to address organizational-level barriers and biases hindering career advancement and leadership diversity. . Address barriers to career advancement and leadership diversity through intentional sponsorship..
Embed Inclusion Into the Organization's Culture
Blueprint: Culture
The positive impacts of workforce diversity have resulted in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) becoming a strategic priority for competitive organizations. However, organizations often concentrate their efforts on increasing diversity, missing the full benefits that cannot be realized...
Diversity on its own will not create inclusion.
The positive impacts of workforce diversity have resulted in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) becoming a strategic priority for competitive organizations. However, organizations often concentrate their efforts on increasing diversity, missing the full benefits that cannot be realized without an inclusive culture..
Anti-Racism Guide
Blueprint: Culture
Use this guide as a starting point to being actively anti-racist. It provides guidance for understanding the lived experiences of racialized persons and for confronting barriers experienced by racialized persons, the two keys to anti-racism practice.
Be an anti-racist by actively identifying and removing barriers faced by racialized persons.
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Equip Managers to Adopt Inclusive Leadership Behaviors
Blueprint: Culture
Inclusion refers to an environment of mutual respect where differences are actively welcomed. Creating an inclusive environment is not a one and done exercise. It requires ongoing accountability, focus and behavior change. Managers play a critical role in the development of an inclusive culture...
Prepare people managers with the tools to create an inclusive environment.
Inclusion refers to an environment of mutual respect where differences are actively welcomed. Creating an inclusive environment is not a one and done exercise. It requires ongoing accountability, focus and behavior change. Managers play a critical role in the development of an inclusive culture on their teams.
Making Sense of Generations in the Workplace
Blueprint: Culture
From “kids these days” to “OK, boomer”: A critical examination of generations in the workplace and their practical implications.
From “kids these days” to “OK, boomer”: A critical examination of generations in the workplace and their practical implications.
From “kids these days” to “OK, boomer”: A critical examination of generations in the workplace and their practical implications.
Introduction to Psychological Safety for HR
Blueprint: Culture
Use this guide to build a psychologically safe work environment where employees feel included and safe to learn, contribute, and challenge.
A guide to building psychological safety at work.
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Create a Pathway for Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to Connect to Organizational Support
Blueprint: Culture
Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are growing in organizations as employees seek connections with one another based on common backgrounds and interests. However, as ERGs become a core component of DEI strategies, without access to resources they face barriers to long-term sustainability. HR has...
With organizational support ERGs can grow and be sustained.
Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are growing in organizations as employees seek connections with one another based on common backgrounds and interests. However, as ERGs become a core component of DEI strategies, without access to resources they face barriers to long-term sustainability.
Build Impactful Leadership Development Programs
Blueprint: Learning & Development
Leadership is critical to organizational success. Highly effective leaders positively influence financial results and drive employee engagement. Changing workforce demographics driven by increased retirement and a tightening labor market put pressure on organizations to develop leaders...
Abandon one-size-fits-all leadership development and build programs designed with organizational goals in mind.
Leadership is critical to organizational success. Highly effective leaders positively influence financial results and drive employee engagement. Changing workforce demographics driven by increased retirement and a tightening labor market put pressure on organizations to develop leaders internally in order to achieve organizational success. .
Nudges: A Paradigm for HR to Influence Employee Behavior
Blueprint: HR Strategy
Employees are often unaware of the impact that biases and heuristics have on their decisions, leading to decision-making pressures and bottlenecks that have a significant impact on organizational outcomes. Map out the decision-making process of employees and develop ethical nudges that address...
Use nudges to shape employee behavior in a way that benefits both individuals and the organization.
Employees are often unaware of the impact that biases and heuristics have on their decisions, leading to decision-making pressures and bottlenecks that have a significant impact on organizational outcomes. Map out the decision-making process of employees and develop ethical nudges that address the pressures and bottlenecks they face..
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Primer
Blueprint: Culture
Download our primer to gain an understanding of the ESG program journey and the important role HR plays throughout.
Understand ESG programs and their impact on organizations.
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Employee Engagement Trends Report 2024
Blueprint: Culture
Insights, analysis, and benchmarking data from McLean & Company’s Employee Engagement Survey from 2019 to 2023.
Insights, analysis, and benchmarking data from McLean & Company’s Employee Engagement Survey from 2019 to 2023.
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Prepare People Leaders for the Hybrid Work Environment
Blueprint: Culture
Employees are now expecting flexibility with work. Many organizations recognize this desire and the benefits of hybrid work but often overlook the complexity and adjustments required to how work gets done.
Set hybrid work up for success by providing people leaders with the tools they need to lead within the new model.
Employees are now expecting flexibility with work. Many organizations recognize this desire and the benefits of hybrid work but often overlook the complexity and adjustments required to how work gets done. . Set hybrid work up for success by providing people leaders with the tools they need to lead within the new model..
Activate Networks to Enable Collaboration
Blueprint: Culture
Equip managers to intentionally leverage networks to encourage cross-functional collaboration where teams come together to partner, work on a common goal, and create value. All too often organizations work in silos, but in the VUCA world of today, organizations must harness the varied...
Use this resource to train managers on how they can activate their employees' networks to enable collaboration.
Activate Networks to Enable Collaboration. Solution Set. blueprint. Culture. Equip managers to intentionally leverage networks to encourage cross-functional collaboration where teams come together to partner, work on a common goal, and create value. All too often organizations work in silos, but in the VUCA world of today, organizations must harness the varied experience from across the organization to create creative solutions.. Use this resource to train managers on how they can activate their employees' networks to enable collaboration..
Equip HR to Foster a Dynamic Learning Mindset
Blueprint: Culture
Organizations that embrace the values of a dynamic learning mindset (DLM) have a workforce that is better at adopting change, is more resilient, and has higher levels of innovation – which leads to improved organizational performance and profitability. Learn how to align your organization with...
Train HR to actively support a dynamic learning mindset across the organization to promote innovation, resilience, and development.
Organizations that embrace the values of a dynamic learning mindset (DLM) have a workforce that is better at adopting change, is more resilient, and has higher levels of innovation – which leads to improved organizational performance and profitability.
Develop an Impactful High-Potential Program
Blueprint: Talent Management
A hi-po program identifies high-potential employees, based on an organization’s unique definition of potential and purposefully selected assessments, and provides them with development opportunities to create candidates for future roles within the organization. A lack of clarity around the...
A high-potential program is greater than the sum of its parts.
A lack of clarity around the hi-po definition leads to the wrong people being identified and development being targeted inappropriately. Avoid the common pitfalls of a hi-po program by developing a formalized program that realizes the full benefits of high-potential employees. . A high-potential program is greater than the sum of its parts..
Demonstrate Customer Focus as an Emerging Leader
Blueprint: Learning & Development
Share this resource with emerging leaders in your organization to help them elevate their critical thinking, relationship management, and communication strategies to solve complex customer challenges.
Help emerging leaders demonstrate customer focus by thinking critically and strengthening their communication to solve challenging customer situations.
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Reimagine Learning
Blueprint: Learning & Development
Work, the workplace, and the workforce are being reshaped at an unprecedented pace, and as a result, organizations are recognizing the importance of developing the workforce to not just meet current needs but also prepare for the future.
Recalibrate the learning and development strategy to address organizational priorities, changing work environments, and the new development needs for today’s workforce.
Work, the workplace, and the workforce are being reshaped at an unprecedented pace, and as a result, organizations are recognizing the importance of developing the workforce to not just meet current needs but also prepare for the future.