Diversity & Inclusion
Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging are all essential for creating a safe and engaged workplace environment. Learning leaders must strive to fully incorporate and champion DEIB in an organization’s training and development strategy in order to maintain a healthy workplace culture.
The Sherlock Holmes effect
Three clues worth investigating to solve the mystery of D&I.
Video: The pandemic is abating gender equity
According to McKinsey’s 2020 Women in the Workplace survey, as many as 2 million women are considering leaving the workforce.
5 things you, as a learning professional, need to know about disability
We all experience our abilities and impairments differently, and we all have unique learning needs. Only by asking team members about their individual needs — rather than making assumptions — can we truly create more accessible and inclusive learning environments.
L&D has a racial inequity problem
Whether intended or not, many of the learning systems, programs and resources that are put in place by L&D are not equally accessible to everyone across the board, especially those who are on the front line.
Bionic learning: Promising Lazarus drug to revive the overdose of ineffectual D&I
With 6 decades of data, the failure of diversity and inclusion initiatives is perennial.
Want a more inclusive culture? Consider the power of peer leadership
Here’s how 3 peer leaders are sustaining a caring workplace.
A glimpse at choices that are advancing gender parity
When it comes to the growth and development of female talent, the future looks more bright than we may think.
A not-so-white paper on succession
Here’s how learning can present more diverse leadership examples.
A diversity training success story
Here’s how marketing services firm Ansira was able to help managers recognize their own biases and change their behavior for the better.
What’s holding inclusion back? Leaders’ behavior.
Only 31 percent of employees believe their leaders promote an inclusive environment, according to a recent report by DDI. Numbers like these beg the question, why aren’t leaders more inclusive? There are a few key obstacles holding them back.
Psychological safety: an overlooked secret to organizational performance
Psychological safety is an essential foundational component for innovation, divergent thinking, creativity and risk-taking — but it should not be confused with comfort. There are a number of small behaviors leaders can cultivate to help their teams take more interpersonal risks to increase psychological safety.
Video: Overcoming the narrative of racial difference: Why the controversy?
Diversity has become a controversial topic amid today’s political climate. At the same time, many organizations feel that deeper discussions about diversity, race and unconscious bias are due.
Mitigating the effects of implicit bias
By its very nature, implicit bias operates in the subconscious — a challenge to overcome for learning leaders.
Who leads your DEI function, and how do you support them from an organizational perspective?
Evidence suggests a gradual increase in organizational support for initiatives that promote diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as the individuals who run them. What does DEI look like when it's supported organizationally, and through L&D?
