LEAP United
"Helping Companies Thrive With Workplace Diversity!"
12 Ways to Experience the Greater Power of Diversity
LEADERSHIP
Communicate Employee Value
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Evaluate Bias for Awareness & Change strategies
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Cultivate a
Culture of Inclusion
The goal of a leader includes ensuring every employee knows their importance, and each employee has value to add to the team. Leading by creating a culture of inclusion allows everyone to feel welcomed no matter their race, sex, or gender. A leader's communications, decisions, interactions and projects are guided through the values of the company.
EFFECTIVENESS
Create Diverse Teams
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Encourage Dialogue Daily
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Implement Ongoing Learning
Ongoing training sets the examples for the company's values that are evident within the organization's culture. Creating diverse team members at all levels of the organization will ensure that team members see the humanistic qualities in people of different backgrounds. Effectiveness happens by consistent training, measurement and an ongoing cadence of learning.
ACCOUNTABILITY
Create & Practice
Great Habits
Initiate Accountability Management
Maintain & Highlight Company Values
Create diversity and inclusion as a core value and develop a set of accountable habits to experience the power of diversity. Transform the workplace into an inclusive environment where teams appreciate and respect the strengths afforded by differences in the styles, ideas, and organizational contributions of each person. Celebrate to recognize employees who demonstrate acceptable and appropriate behaviors in diversity.
PRODUCTIVITY
Develop a Pressure plan
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Increase Proactiveness
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Celebrate Diverse Communications
Diversity includes mindset and appreciating differences by remaining proactive. An effort to ensure employees understand the importance of diversity, inclusion and equal employment opportunity, organizations develop training that is mandatory for all to complete. Creating a pressure plan involves a collective conversation where people are trained to think through the situation from all perspectives and anticipate the consequences of their decisions.