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Here are some tips to help you grow your ERG member base.

This tool is designed to help you assess the effectiveness of your DEI leadership capability.  Upon completion, you can assess your results using the self-scoring guidelines.

One of the most effective ways to develop yourself and move your career forward is to look for internal career mobility opportunities. Here are some tips and strategies you can use in order to make the most of these opportunities and to ensure you are seriously considered for internal promotion.

The ERG Member Profile is a template that you can use to interview ERG members.

Navigating relationships across difference can pose challenges and requires some cultural knowledge to navigate this terrain. Here are some tips for developing cultural sensitivity in your patient/customer interactions.

This tool provides a framework for you to use in creating your own D&I strategy. Includes some examples as a reference.

Quick tips and how-tos to help you navigate diversity challenges and opportunities

With the constant barrage of news feeds, tweets and blog posts it’s almost impossible to keep discussions regarding charged topics such as politics, religion, race, immigration, gun control and women’s rights from permeating our workplaces. It can be tricky to navigate topics like these at work. But, with some basic ground rules, these discussions can be enlightening—no matter which side of the issue you’re on.

Facilitation is the art of leading people through a process in order to collectively reach agreed-upon objectives in a manner that encourages participation, respect, and creativity by all those involved. These tips can help ensure your conversations are effective and productive.

The Courageous Conversations Facilitator Toolkit is a guide to help you lead difficult conversations in order to deepen understanding across difference. This guide provides tools, tips and materials to help you prepare, host and lead a dialogue based on any topic aimed at understanding difference and resolving conflict. Throughout the year we will provide some facilitator’s discussion guides on specific topics.

Out & Equal’s Pronoun Guide provides strategies for inclusion in the workplace.

MyPronouns.org is a practical resource dedicated to the empowering and inclusive use of personal pronouns in the English language. This website will help you understand why and how to use the pronouns someone goes by. In particular, we are focusing on pronouns used to refer to a singular human in the third person.

Language surrounding identity is constantly evolving. And while using non-binary pronouns might at first be challenging, using someone’s personal gender pronoun is as important as using their correct name. It takes awareness, understanding and practice. Here are some tips for getting it right.

Extensive research demonstrates that most employees cover to some degree at work and that covering
has a negative impact at both the individual and organizational level. By promoting psychological safety,
we can create a workplace where employees are more comfortable bringing their whole selves to work,
are happier, more fulfilled and engaged and are more committed to organizational outcomes.

Over the course of May through July 2021, VisionSpring conducted over 30 interviews with DEI practitioners to determine what are their biggest roadblocks to achieving their DEI goals.  The market research report includes our key findings, themes, stats & facts and our recommendations.

Developing a new ERG may seem like a daunting task, but once a plan of action, with specific tasks, expectations and timelines is created, the process will be more manageable. This document provides a step-by step guided process for launching an ERG

Quick tips and how-tos to help you navigate diversity challenges and opportunities

Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate. It is important to note that privilege is not necessarily a bad thing – just unfair. Privilege used positively can actually be leveraged to support the advancement of others and to benefit the organization as a whole.

If you are in a situation where you have privilege, you have an opportunity to leverage that privilege to help and support others. Leveraging our privilege is a great way to serve as an ally. Allies can help amplify the message, break down barriers and secure support of the masses. Here are some things you can do to leverage your privilege as an ally.

Support Material to be assigned as prework for The Crafting My Career Development Plan Circle Meeting

One of the most effective ways to develop yourself and move your career forward is to create a well-thought-out plan. Here are some tips and strategies to help you take control of your own career journey and successfully identify and pursue a career joy and fulfillment.

Ideas for developing skills and experience to propel you forward and help you achieve your career goals.

An organization’s ability to benefit from diversity and inclusion is directly relative to the D&I competency across the organization. All employees must understand the power in D&I and how to leverage that power to drive business outcomes. Here are some tips to get you started.

Tips for understanding positions of power and privilege and how to leverage in support of goals and the success of others.

Your ERG Value Statement should describe how ERGs will add value to the organization and your employees. This tool can be used by individual ERGs as well in a large group with multiple ERG leaders. The purpose of this exercise is to engage in true brainstorming to come up with words that capture the value of your ERG program.