How can your diversity and inclusion initiatives have a lasting impact?

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Diversity and inclusion (D&I) are not just buzzwords or checkboxes for your organization. They are essential elements of creating a positive and productive work culture, fostering innovation and social impact, and attracting and retaining diverse talent. However, D&I initiatives are not always effective or sustainable, especially if they are not aligned with your mission, vision, and values. How can you ensure that your D&I efforts have a lasting impact and make a real difference for your employees, customers, and communities? Here are some tips to help you design and implement D&I frameworks that are meaningful, measurable, and adaptable.

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Assess your current landscape:

Conduct a thorough review of your existing D&I policies and outcomes. This helps you identify strengths and areas for improvement, setting a clear baseline for future goals.### *Set clear objectives:Define specific, measurable goals that align with your organization's mission and values. This ensures everyone knows what success looks like and can work collaboratively towards achieving it.

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1 Assess your current state

The first step to creating a lasting impact with your D&I initiatives is to understand where you are now. You need to conduct a comprehensive and honest assessment of your current D&I policies, practices, and outcomes. This includes gathering data and feedback from various sources, such as surveys, interviews, focus groups, performance reviews, customer reviews, and external benchmarks. You also need to identify your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in relation to D&I. This will help you establish a baseline, set realistic and relevant goals, and prioritize your actions.

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Joe Fargnoli, Sr.

Assistant Professor - Department Coordinator, Management, Dean College, Dean R. Sanders ’47 School of Business
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Effective DEI initiatives create a lasting impact by fostering a sense of belonging. When employees feel valued and integral to their team, their engagement and motivation soar, boosting productivity, creativity, and collaboration. This not only enhances individual well-being but also drives organizational success. A culture of belonging attracts and retains diverse talent, bringing varied perspectives vital for innovation. Leadership plays a crucial role in promoting inclusivity and recognizing individual contributions. Organizations build a dynamic, cohesive workforce essential for forward-thinking growth by ensuring every voice is heard and respected. Such a nurturing environment leads to a more committed, innovative, and diverse team.

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Jo Keiko Terasawa

APAC Head of Inclusion and Equity Programs | DEI Leader, Career/Life Coach
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To ensure that organizations make tangible and lasting Progress on DEI goals, the author recommends three actions to take with regards to tracking metrics. First, recognize the importance of qualitative and quantitative data for various demographics and find gaps to focus on for coming years. When doing so, reviewing those data with an intersectional lens would help us to find deeper insights to come up with a focused approach to address the gap. Next, for each category that you choose to measure, develop a theory of change to identify tailored proxy metrics. Finally, to ensure that these findings result in lasting outcomes, create a plan in advance for using that data to follow up and take action

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2 Define your desired state

The next step is to define what success looks like for your D&I initiatives. You need to articulate your vision, mission, and values for D&I, and how they align with your overall organizational strategy and culture. You also need to set specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) objectives and indicators for your D&I efforts. These should reflect your desired outcomes and impact, such as increasing representation, engagement, satisfaction, retention, innovation, and social impact. You should also consider how you will communicate your D&I vision and goals to your stakeholders, and how you will solicit their input and feedback.

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Aditi Pandya

Cofounder | Customer Success | Product Development | Endurance Athlete. Let's connect on #ProductDevelopment #Customersuccess #community-building
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This has been a topic of discussion for eons. Diversity and inclusion should be the building blocks (more like a fabric) of the company. Rather than looking at it as a month or year where it's emphasized. I have been fortunate to be part of this inclusive and diverse culture, where we looked inward to provide a safe space for all of us. It's better to focus on capabilities and behaviors, and diversity will automatically flourish.

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3 Design your action plan

The third step is to design a detailed and comprehensive action plan for your D&I initiatives. You need to identify the activities, resources, responsibilities, timelines, and budgets for each of your D&I objectives. You also need to consider the potential risks, challenges, and barriers that might hinder your progress, and how you will mitigate or overcome them. You should also think about how you will monitor and evaluate your D&I activities, and how you will report and celebrate your achievements and learnings.

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Surbhi Srivastava

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion @ ServiceNow
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Critical components of an Inclusion strategy or DEI action plan involve: 1. Addressing Inclusion needs: Using data to inform our priority actions and gaps to fill 2. Integration: Ways and methods to integrate DEI into other talent processes and culture building to help scale inclusion efforts consistently. 3. Improvements: Continuous monitoring of new & existing processes to measure effectiveness, adapt to industry best practices and align with the business goal.

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4 Implement your action plan

The fourth step is to implement your action plan for your D&I initiatives. You need to execute your activities according to your plan, and ensure that you have the necessary support and commitment from your leadership, management, and staff. You also need to foster a culture of collaboration, learning, and accountability for your D&I efforts, and encourage participation and feedback from your stakeholders. You should also track and measure your progress and impact, and adjust your plan as needed based on your data and insights.

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Dicle Ture Cetinkaya

Founder @ Tech Talent Hub | Connecting Top Tech Talent with companies in UAE and KSA
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You should have specific KPI's for tracking the progress in D&I initiatives. And it should be an ongoing priority in your agenda, not just a short term trend, to see the improvement in the results.

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5 Review your impact

The fifth step is to review the impact of your D&I initiatives. You need to analyze and evaluate your data and feedback, and compare your results with your baseline and goals. You also need to identify the successes, challenges, and lessons learned from your D&I efforts, and how they have contributed to your organizational performance and social impact. You should also acknowledge and appreciate the contributions and achievements of your staff, customers, and partners, and share your stories and best practices with your wider community.

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6 Adapt to changing needs

The final step is to adapt your D&I initiatives to the changing needs and expectations of your stakeholders, market, and society. You need to keep abreast of the latest trends, research, and best practices in D&I, and incorporate them into your strategy and culture. You also need to solicit and respond to feedback from your stakeholders, and involve them in your continuous improvement and innovation processes. You should also review and update your D&I vision, goals, and plan regularly, and ensure that they are relevant, responsive, and impactful.

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7 Here’s what else to consider

This is a space to share examples, stories, or insights that don’t fit into any of the previous sections. What else would you like to add?

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Sam Swaminathan

Storyteller at Center for Creative Thinking and Adjunct Professor of Business
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There are many valuable tips provided by LinkedIn members. Like any initiative, diversity and inclusion efforts also have to be genuine, continuous, across the board and meaningful. They must be embraced by the leaders wholeheartedly. There is no good time to ignore them or bad time to include them. At one of the multinational I know quite well, pay scales were based upon skin color, while the company would send year-end memos on being fair to all. Another company in the energy business loudly claimed that it opposed apartheid, while shipping parcels of fossil fuels almost everyday to South Africa. The books of accounts were also manipulated to avoid showing the shipments to South Africa. Be genuine, let your actions speak for themselves

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