Empower Diversity Now

Diversity Challenges

Communication

Resistance to change

Different groups don't mix

Stereotypes rule interactions

Only some voices get heard

Being the only _________ in a meeting

Diversity seen as an issue of representation only

What are your additional diversity challenges?

Diversity Triumphs

Diversity Day / Your Company University

Nordstrom's Supplier Diversity Program

Turnarounds - Denny's

PricewaterhouseCooper's Mentoring Program

Wells Fargo GLSEN Safe Space Packets in GA

Kraft's resource groups (women in sales)

What are your additional diversity triumphs?

Morphological Analysis

Is a brainstorming technique that breaks down the elements of interventions to find combinations not currently addressed.

If people from different ethnic backgrounds aren't interacting well and don't have a sense of their shared humanity, a Mix-It-Up day where lunch seating is randomized so different employees have to interact is one action approach.

Time: lunch

Place: cafeteria

Nature of Initiative: preventing bias

Level: branch-wide

Stakeholders: all employees

Theory: Personal Interaction smashes stereotypes

Action: Mix-It-Up Day (Playing Card Randomization)

When you break down all the times, places, natures of initiatives, levels, stakeholders, and theories specific to your organization, the action points brainstormed increase exponentially - both in quality and variety. 

Lee can expertly guide your group through this brainstorming process to create action plans that will help fuel the engine of innovation and success diversity can be for your company!