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The latest thought leadership around diversity and inclusion best and next practices to help you create sustainable change and move your organization forward.

Employee Resource Group

Starting an Employee Resources Group: A Guide for HR

As more and more employers and employees desire a more inclusive workplace culture, Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) create a positive environment where employees of different backgrounds and identities have equal opportunity to succeed. Many employee resource groups are started naturally out of the need for minority groups to feel a

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DEI Strategic Plans

What HR Can Do To Build Gen Z-approved DEI Strategic Plans

Younger Employees and Top Job Candidates Want An Inclusive Culture In my last blog post, Everything HR Teams Need to Know About DEI I described how the responsibility of Human Resources has been rapidly expanding and that one of these increased responsibility areas for HR has been to advance Diversity,

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Human Resources Employment Job Teamwork People Meeting Concept

Everything HR Teams Need to Know About DEI

SHRM: Most Employers Dedicate ‘little to no resources’ to DEI Diversity, equity, and inclusion(DEI) is essential to creating and maintaining a successful workplace, one founded on the principle that all people can thrive personally and professionally. Bringing together people of various backgrounds leads to new and creative ideas and decision-making.

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Workplace Inclusion

Ensuring Workplace Inclusion for LGBTQ+ Employees

During Pride Month in June, many employers take the opportunity to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community in many important and visible ways. But creating a genuinely inclusive culture means taking year-round action. What does LGBTQ+ community refer to? As an umbrella term, LGBTQ+ includes lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people.

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Racial Equity

How Inclusive Leaders Advance Racial Equity

“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Achieving Racial Equity In The Workplace To create the real, systemic change needed to achieve racial equality in the

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How Male Bosses Can Be Inclusive Leaders For Women

How Male Bosses Can Be Inclusive Leaders For Women

Becoming Inclusive Leaders For Women It’s important to create a welcoming environment for your entire workforce, and that means working to become gender inclusive. Learn what that means, why it matters, and what you can start working on right now to be inclusive leaders for women. Organizations with gender-inclusive cultures

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Business Analyst Group

Filling The Inclusive Leadership Pipeline – By Charlotte F. Hughes

Empowered, inclusive leadership is essential at all levels of an organization In a 2014 paper evaluating leadership trends, the multinational management firm Deloitte advocated the importance of cultivating leaders at every level of an organization. Its authors explain: “Today’s market environment places a premium on speed, flexibility, and the ability

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