diversity-equity-and-inclusion
Uncover the Employee Value Proposition
Blueprint: Talent Acquisition
When creating an employee value proposition (EVP), organizations often forget the employee voice and engagement, neglect to look at competitors, and confuse the EVP and employer branding. This can lead to inaccurate, misaligned, and undifferentiated EVPs.
Strategically highlight organizational strengths in a compelling and realistic story to attract and retain the right talent.
Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when uncovering, developing, and launching the Employee Value Proposition. Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when uncovering, developing, and launching the Employee Value Proposition.
DEI Lens: Uncover the Employee Value Proposition
Note: Talent Acquisition
Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when uncovering, developing, and launching the Employee Value Proposition
Customize HR Programs for a Global Workforce
Blueprint: HR Strategy
Use this research to strategically customize HR programs in alignment with organizational objectives and regional needs.
Adapt HR programs to meet regional needs while maintaining alignment with organizational objectives.
Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when customizing HR programs for a global workforce. Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when customizing HR programs for a global workforce.
DEI Lens: Customize HR Programs for a Global Workforce
Note: HR Strategy
Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when customizing HR programs for a global workforce.
Transforming the Role of People Leaders
Blueprint: Talent Management
This research is designed to help organizations critically assess the role of people leaders by examining current realities, anticipating future demands, and shaping the transformation of the role of people leaders.
Forge a new path for people leaders that is human-centric and future-ready and taps into the full potential of leadership.
Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations in the context of redefining and transforming the role of people leaders. Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations in the context of redefining and transforming the role of people leaders.
DEI Lens: Transforming the Role of People Leaders
Note: Talent Management
Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations in the context of redefining and transforming the role of people leaders.
Nudges: A Paradigm for HR to Influence Employee Behavior
Blueprint: Culture
Every decision we make is informed by biases and heuristics. They enable people to make quick and intuitive decisions but also lead to rash and misinformed choices. In an organizational context, misinformed or suboptimal decisions can significantly impact organizational outcomes.
Use nudges to shape employee behavior in a way that benefits both individuals and the organization.
Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when using behavioral nudges in HR. Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when using behavioral nudges in HR.
DEI Lens: Nudges – A Paradigm for HR to Influence Employee Behavior
Note: Culture
Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when using behavioral nudges in HR.
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.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) goes beyond having a diverse workforce... By looking inward at the current state of DEI, organizations can focus their efforts and guidance for employees, creating a more effective and sustainable DEI strategy. This blueprint will help you:Conduct a current state assessment.Determine the purpose of.
Research Snapshot: Create a People-First Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Strategy
Note: Culture
Use this research snapshot to uncover how to 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 Executive Briefing
Note: Culture
Use this document to make the case to your executives for creating a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion strategy that addresses systemic inequities.
Job Aid: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Governance Framework
Note: Culture
Use this job aid to identify the right DEI governance model for a sustainable DEI strategy.
Workshop Overview: Create a People-First Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Strategy
Note: HR Strategy
Engage McLean & Company facilitators to lead your team through the Create a People-First Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Strategy workshop.
Optimize AI as an Emerging Leader
Blueprint: Learning & Development
Share this learning resource with emerging leaders to help them think critically about strategic AI use cases in their roles and provide them with tactical approaches for effective prompt writing.
Empower emerging leaders to think critically about strategic AI use in their roles and how to write effective prompts to get the desired outputs.
This infographic highlights key diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations to keep in mind while using AI.. Use this infographic to keep diversity, equity, and inclusion top of mind when using AI, to ensure fairer and more equitable outcomes.
DEI Considerations in AI – Infographic
Note: Learning & Development
This infographic highlights key diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations to keep in mind while using AI.
Increase the Efficiency of the Talent Acquisition Process
Blueprint: Talent Acquisition
Organizations are increasingly finding it difficult to acquire quality candidates efficiently. Talent acquisition specialists are overwhelmed with the quantity of requisitions and face competing demands, from responding to hiring manager inquiries to trying to keep candidates engaged throughout...
Efficiency is the foundation of an effective talent acquisition process that meets the needs of key players.
Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when developing a strategic executive search process for candidates external to the organization. Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when developing a strategic executive search process for candidates external to the.
DEI Lens: Executive Recruitment Process Guide
Note: Talent Acquisition
Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when developing a strategic executive search process for candidates external to the organization.
Use Dashboards to Become a Data-Driven HR Function
Blueprint: HR Strategy
Using data and metrics to provide insights and recommendations is a top priority for organizations. Create dashboards that tell a story and present data in an effective way, leading to insights, recommendations, and decisions that benefit employees and the organization.
Select metrics that matter to generate insights and recommendations that lead to action.
Use the DEI Lens: Industry-Based HR Metrics Guide to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when selecting HR metrics relevant to your industry. Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when selecting HR metrics relevant to your industry.
DEI Lens: Industry-Based HR Metrics Guide
Note: HR Strategy
Use the DEI Lens: Industry-Based HR Metrics Guide to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when selecting HR metrics relevant to your industry.
Design Pre-Employment Assessments That Improve Hiring Success
Blueprint: Talent Acquisition
Most organizations conduct at least one assessment (usually an interview). However, according to CareerBuilder, one in five survey respondents stated they lacked the skills to interview and hire people effectively, meaning that bad hires are making their way into the organization.
Go beyond the interview to better assess for competencies specific to the organization’s culture and unique needs.
Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when designing pre-employment assessments. Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when designing pre-employment assessments.
DEI Lens: Design Pre-Employment Assessments That Improve Hiring Success
Note: Talent Acquisition
Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when designing pre-employment assessments.
Design and Build a Strategic Workforce Planning Toolkit
Blueprint: Talent Management
Today’s rapidly changing operating environment is making it increasingly difficult to get the talent needed to execute on organizational strategies using traditional, reactive talent management practices. Seventy-three percent of executives predict significant industry disruption in the next...
Create a workforce planning toolkit that will ensure the right talent is available when and where it is needed.
Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when creating a skills inventory. Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when creating a skills inventory.
DEI Lens: Skills Inventory Guide
Note: Talent Management
Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when creating a skills inventory.
Analyze and Act on Employee Engagement Data
Blueprint: Culture
Engagement positively impacts organizational outcomes and is positively related to employee and organizational performance. Engaged employees are more committed, innovative, and customer focused. Yet work on engagement often stops with surveys.
Avoid analysis paralysis with a timely and tailored employee engagement action plan.
Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when analyzing and acting on engagement data. Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when analyzing and acting on engagement data.
DEI Lens: Analyze and Act on Engagement Data
Note: Culture
Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when analyzing and acting on engagement data.
Leverage Skills Practices in HR Guide
Blueprint: Talent Management
Skills are a topic of conversation for many organizations, but how this translates to practice is very ambiguous. Use this guide to cut through this ambiguity and identify and prioritize skills practices to address organizational needs.
Transform the organization’s skills journey from the theoretical to practical.
Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when leveraging skills practices in HR. Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when leveraging skills practices in HR.
DEI Lens: Leverage Skills Practices in HR Guide
Note: Talent Management
Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when leveraging skills practices in HR.
Sustain Work-From-Home
Blueprint: Culture
Sustain WFH by creating a planned, integrated, and supported program that maximizes the benefits of flexibility while supporting both organizational and employee needs.
Ensure work-from-home (WFH) arrangements are planned, integrated, and supported across the organization.
Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when sustaining work-from-home programs. Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when sustaining work-from-home programs.
DEI Lens: Sustain Work-From-Home
Note: Culture
Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when sustaining work-from-home programs.
Optimize People Leadership in the Hybrid Work Environment
Blueprint: Culture
Organizations see the benefits of hybrid work but often miss its complexity and leaders’ roles. A toolkit helps leaders optimize practices, uphold values, and drive results.
Provide people leaders with the necessary tools to successfully lead.
Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when implementing strategies to optimize people leadership in the hybrid environment. Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when implementing strategies to optimize people leadership in the hybrid environment.
DEI Lens: Optimize People Leadership in the Hybrid Work Environment
Note: Culture
Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when implementing strategies to optimize people leadership in the hybrid environment.
Develop Responsible AI Guiding Principles
Blueprint: HR Technology & Operations
Rapid advancement in AI has organizations either ignoring the technology or rushing to implement it for a competitive advantage. However, implementing AI without proper guidelines exposes organizations to risks. Avoid adverse organizational outcomes by uniting with leaders to develop responsible...
Chart the course to successful AI adoption to maximize opportunities and mitigate risks.
Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when establishing AI guiding principles. Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when establishing AI guiding principles.
DEI Lens: Develop Responsible AI Guiding Principles
Note: HR Technology & Operations
Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when establishing AI guiding principles.
Exit Survey Guide
Blueprint: Culture
Exit survey data offers insight into the top drivers of turnover at your organization and provides departing employees with the opportunity to share feedback on engagement and retention.
Prepare to implement an exit survey and action plan to retain top talent and reduce turnover.
Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when preparing to implement an exit survey. Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when preparing to implement an exit survey.
DEI Lens: Exit Survey Guide
Note: Culture
Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when preparing to implement an exit survey.
Create Functional Competencies
Blueprint: Talent Management
Functional competencies are part of a broader competency framework and are often seen as the next logical step after the development of core and leadership competencies. Functional competencies have the greatest impact when developed to address function-specific needs aligned with organizational...
Strategically invest resources in developing functional competencies for the greatest impact.
Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when creating functional competencies. Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when creating functional competencies.
DEI Lens: Create Functional Competencies
Note: Talent Management
Use this download to review the diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations when creating functional competencies.



















