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ERGs & Committees

What is an Employee Resource Group? Answers to 5 Common Questions about ERGs, BRGs and Affinity Groups

How do you establish and maintain a successful ERG? In this article, you’ll find answers to common questions about Employee Resource Groups.

An HR manager conducts a stay interview with an employee

Retention

Stay Interviews Help Keep Employees Happy and Engaged

Stay interviews are a great way to ensure they choose to remain with their company rather than leave for a competitor.

Communication

Can I Still Use Sir and Ma’am? When Should I Use Mr., Mrs., Ms., or Mx? What to Do When You Don’t Know Someone’s Gender

Asking which courtesy title – or honorific – the person uses is a best practice, just like asking a person’s pronouns. But what if you don’t know the gender of the person you are addressing – either because you are writing an email or making a cold call?

Remote & Hybrid Workforce

Virtual DEI Training for Remote Workforces: Building Culture When There Are No Walls

Remote and hybrid workforces necessitate new ways of thinking about leadership and the resources to train next generation leaders.

Tech & Data Management

Collecting Workforce Demographic Data: How to Create an Inclusive and Effective Employee Survey

Download our template for organizational leaders to create inclusive employee demographic forms and surveys.

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DEI Best Practices

Fighting Survey Fatigue: 9 Ways to Get the DEI Information You Need to Transform your Workplace

How can you inspire employees to fill out surveys and generate the honest answers you need to enhance your DEI programming? Here's our prescription for survey fatigue.

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Inclusive Leadership

Inclusive Leadership: Master Self-Awareness to Make Better Business Decisions

Master the art of self-aware leadership. Navigate decisions with clarity, foster collaboration, and drive lasting success for you and your team.

Onboarding

Best Practices for Inclusive Onboarding

We recommend the following steps to leaders, DEI professionals, and Human Resource employees who are tasked with onboarding for new hires.

Onboarding

A Warm Welcome: How Inclusive Onboarding Can Cut Turnover and Boost Belonging

An inclusive onboarding strategy isn’t difficult to execute, yet it does require intentional actions and mindful consideration.

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DEI Best Practices

How to Set Diversity Goals: 8 Examples of DEI Goals for Work

These 8 examples of diversity and inclusion goals for companies help demonstrate how to set meaningful, measurable DEI objectives at work.

Two employees attend unconscious bias training

Addressing Bias

Maybe You Don’t Need Unconscious Bias Training

When seen as a cure-all or an onboarding requirement, unconscious bias training is doomed to fail. To make a tangible, long-term impact, that training must be paired with a top-down, data-driven diversity strategy.

Recruitment

Simple Ways to Fight Age-Related Bias in the 50+ Job Search

To overcome ageism and prove themselves in the job market, older workers have to approach their job search differently than younger folks.