POWERED UP - AN INSIGHT BY THE IN GROUP
Article written by Olivia Dodd, Associate Director for Client Success at The IN Group.
My role is to continually have conversations with business leaders who are looking to be more inclusive but don’t know where to start.
From prevailing attitudes to accepted terminology, it doesn’t help that so much about diversity, equity and inclusion changes so fast that we often struggle to keep up with it.
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When the goalposts keep moving, it’s difficult to know where you should be kicking off. What do I tell these clients? Well, I often think the best way of approaching a complex, ever-changing challenge is to go back to basics. Start from scratch. So, I tell them to do what we did – start with your people.
Before you know where you’re going, you need to understand who you are
When we revamped our DEI committee 18 months ago, we conducted a survey with our staff to increase our understanding of our business’s makeup. Called “Identifying Who We Are,” the survey helped us understand the true nature of our diverse makeup – how we might not have been as diverse as we thought in some ways but were incredibly diverse in others. Just as importantly, this exercise has opened our eyes to how our people understand and view themselves. This was a critical signpost on our DEI journey.
For better or worse, everything about a person’s upbringing has helped them get to where they are now and is defining how they think about their future.
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