Diversity and inclusion in the workplace

A diverse workforce is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and levels of experience. Aside from being the moral, ethical and legal thing to do, there are wide-ranging benefits to having a diverse workforce. - greater innovation and creativity - improved productivity - Increased employee retention - Positive employer branding - Greater business results. Organisations with a diverse workforce are more likely to outperform those that don’t During 2020, the BLM movement has raised awareness of diversity as a priority for society generally.

Businesses sometimes are unsure how to go about encouraging a more diverse workforce.

Here are some tips and discussion points:

• Gently raise awareness and educate

• Raise awareness of unconscious bias

• Provide training for hiring managers

• If you do not have a HR function within your business, you can use apps and websites where you can check the wording in your job adverts for biases,

• Anonymise cv’s to minimise the personal data that you see as a hiring manager

• TALK - develop an environment where people can raise issues, challenge and call out behaviour that is perhaps displaying bias.

Should you require support with implementing a diverse and inclusive culture within your business, please get in touch, we would be delighted to speak with you to discuss how we could best support you and your business on a project based or ongoing basis.