Don’t leave your career in the hands of your manager – take control. Self-advocacy is a key success factor but needs to be done right to be effective. Here are some dos and don’ts of self-advocacy.

Your personal brand matters. Here are some tip for building a positive personal brand aligned with your goals and positions you for success.

As a way to contribute to your own positive work environment, make these tips part of your regular practice.

A culture of belonging happens when every individual can come to work and feel safe and welcomed for exactly who they are. Use these tips to contribute to your own culture of belonging.

When someone says or does something offensive or hurtful, we can either give that person feedback or stay quiet. While it’s impossible to completely control the situation, the way we deliver the message can mitigate some of the risk and lead to productive outcomes. Here you’ll find tips about how you can provide feedback in a way that is respectful and can be heard.

It’s seems increasingly difficult to navigate social norms these days. We may find ourselves in a situation where we said or did something that unintentionally hurt or offended someone.  Here are some tips for respectfully responding to feedback that your words or actions were hurtful or offensive.

A shift from creating safe spaces to creating brave spaces may be a more productive approach for addressing challenges and opportunities associated with diversity, inclusion and equity. Here are some steps you can take to create brave spaces.

This tool is a Diversity Council charter template to assist in the creation of your own council charter and strategy.

Creating your diversity and inclusion strategy requires considerable time and thought and resources. Here you’ll find some tips for getting started and setting yourself up for success early on in the process.

ERGs often provide their members access to leadership through strategic networking events and activities. This guide provides a series of tips and conversation starters that helps your members properly prepare for a meeting with leadership.

The member engagement survey is a tool for ERG leaders to assess the needs of its member base in order to provide highly targeted and effective development opportunities, engage ERG members and enhance communication and outreach.

The Customer Connections Worksheet is a tool designed to help individuals explore model behaviors in order to plan for an inclusive and productive client business interaction.

The STAND Framework is a tool you can use to manage bias by rethinking and reevaluating your first impressions. It is a process you can refer to help guide your decision-making process

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.

Sample questions you can use to prepare short success stories that profile employees at your organization and share key success factors and lessons learned.

Many organizations are placing increased emphasis on including military veterans in their diversity and inclusion strategy. Here are some ideas you can adopt or adapt at your own organization.

Allies play a very important role in creating inclusive work environments. Allies can help amplify the message, break down barriers and secure support of the masses. So, when you’re ready to step into the role of ally, here are some things you can do to ready yourself and increase your effectiveness.

There are many ways to respond to the behaviors and actions we witness in our workplaces and our communities that range from supporting oppression to driving inclusion. Most of us would agree that it is far more appealing to support inclusion over oppression. Deciding to get involved and how we get involved is just that – a decision. Often what holds us back is fear and uncertainty. Here you’ll find several practical ways you can step up and get involved.

The Project Planning Template is a tool to help you manage your project from design to execution.

An index by subject to various diversity and inclusion related organizations and resources. go to resources and links >

Leaders and managers can play a critical role in creating inclusive work cultures. Below you will find a few tips for helping you be a positive driver of change.  

Here are some tips to help you engage your ERG Members.

The business case for diversity and inclusion is rarely disputed these days. But despite widespread
commitment and investment in diversity and inclusion efforts, most organizations fall short year after year. Here are a few tips to help you close those gaps.

Bias can lead to disparity and unfair treatment, can have a negative impact on individuals,
and can erode self-confidence and engagement. Here are some tips for mitigating the impact of bias on your decision-making process.

Employee engagement is a difficult nut to crack and there is plenty of information and advice readily available. We have culled through a lot of information and research and
pulled together this quick reference tip sheet.

All too often we think it is our employer’s job to keep us engaged at work. However, what can we
personally do to ensure that we take control of our own engagement? Below we provide some tips on how to stay engaged at work and lead a productive, happy career.

This case study highlights the accomplishments the LGBT ERG has had with respect to community involvement, patient outreach and acquisition, quality of patient care, and talent pipeline development.

This assessment form provides a set of criteria to evaluate current and potential membership organizations.

A key component of growing ERGs member base is the engagement of remote workers. Employee Resource Groups are tasked with expanding focus and program offerings beyond the national or central location. Here are some tips for engaging remote workers who are working remotely.

TIAA engaged in a strategic re-launch of its ERGs with the goal of expanding ERG impact beyond awareness building and development opportunities to include supporting the creation of innovative business solutions for an increasingly diverse marketplace. Inline with the ERG revitalization strategy was a need to improve the member experience in order to support membership growth and engagement.  This case study provides an overview of the why, how and impact of the ERG revitalization strategy.