Veteran’s Month
Heritage Month Fact Sheets
Tools
Awareness/Foundation Building
Diversity Dimensions
Veterans
Facts, figures and ideas for celebrating Veteran’s Month
Better understand military veterans including the military experience, transition into civilian life and leadership lessons learned along the way.
Sample questions you can use to prepare short success stories that profile employees at your organization and share key success factors and lessons learned.
Honoring Vets at Your Organization
Templates and Frameworks
Tools
Diversity Dimensions
Member Development
Veterans
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.
Consider sending a personally addressed letter from your CEO to each veteran thanking him/her for his/her service to “our country and our company.” Here is a sample letter
Sebastian Junger: Our Lonely Society Makes it Hard to Come Home From War
Interactive Exercise
Ted Talks
Awareness/Foundation Building
Diversity Dimensions
Veterans
Sebastian Junger suggests there’s another major cause of pain for veterans when they come home: the experience of leaving the tribal closeness of the military and returning to an alienating and bitterly divided modern society. Listen and engage in an enlightening conversation about how we can created more tribal work cultures that support military veterans as well as all employees.