Where Do I Start With Equity, Diversity and Inclusion?
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We speak to HR teams and Diversity and Inclusion teams every day.
We deeply understand your challenges, which is why we developed the Powered By Diversity Collective - especially for you!
We’ve added some commonly encountered challenges below but if you still have questions please don’t hesitate to get in touch - you’re not alone!
We’ll do this together.
“There’s so much to do - where do I start?”
I created the Powered By Diversity App, and this was my exact starting point in 2017 when Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) landed on my plate. I cared deeply about EDI so I was excited to take it on - but, being a scientist and technologist I couldn’t start trying to solve a problem before I knew what the problem was!
I’m glad you asked this question because “There’s so much to do in EDI - where do I start?” is the reason Powered By Diversity exists!
I made this short video to introduce myself. . .
On the surface the ‘problem’ was clear: We needed more diversity throughout the company, especially at leadership level. What I needed to know in order to solve it was:
What are all the reasons we don’t have that already?
Where are the biggest gaps and which groups are they affecting - and how?
What is causing those gaps?
I went out looking for the platform or tool that would tell me all this and I found . . . nothing.
I couldn’t act without first knowing that I was doing the right things for the right people, so I set about making what I needed. 3 years, 3 universities, 8 pilot studies and a lot of hours of research later…our Powered By Diversity data platform was born.
I hope you love it - I made it for you.
How do I make an EDI plan…
Making an EDI plan for the year may sound like an easy task - but I know from experience the reality of this task can feel overwhelming.
I have been where you are and I know it can feel hard - but I realised it needn’t be.
We’ve worked as a Collective to create this completely FREE Playbook for you, to lay out exactly the steps you need to take to Set up Your Equity, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Program for Success! Don’t forget pop back here to read the next step - and let us know your thoughts.
How to get MAXIMUM engagement when gathering EDI data…
Our employee assessment (data gathering!) is 140 questions long and takes a good 35 minutes - yet we have a consistent 87% employee engagement rate! So how have we done this?
I share ALL of our secrets with you in this video and hold nothing back - so I hope you find it useful!
Difficulty trying to drum up employee engagement for giving D&I data is one thing I hear very regularly from the HR and Diversity and Inclusion teams we work with - it’s either that they have tried and failed to gather significant data or that they’ve got the wrong thing and don’t know what to do next. This video covers all this and way more. As always, if you have any questions or want to get in touch, please do!
All about Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) …
We hear 2 main questions about Employee Resource Groups (ERGs):
“How do I set up an Employee Resource Group?” and
“How do I get our existing Employee Resource Groups back on track?”
How do you make sure Employee Resource Groups aligned with the organisation’s EDI goals? If Employee Resource Groups are demotivated, how do you get them back on track? How do you set up Employee Resource Groups if you are a smaller company?
We created this FREE Playbook to guide you through troubleshooting your Employee Resource Group issues - or help you to set up new ones!
If you still have questions just let us know and we will be happy to help.
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