Library - Informational Materials- Diversity Questions

The Top Ten Ways to Know That The Leadership Supports Diversity It is difficult to promote diversity in an organization that does not have the leadership's full support. The list of indicators will help you decide how much the leadership will hurt or help your efforts.

1. They want to do more than talk about diversity.

2. They want to do more than make themselves look good.

3. They are willing to experience the changes their organization will need to go through to seriously commit to diversity and inclusion.

4. They are willing to be trained or coached themselves in order to become fully aware of their own diversity-related shortcomings and work through them.

5. They understand that inclusion means improving race relations, reducing stereotypes, and designing structures that work for diverse people.

6. They are willing to ask the tough questions about diversity and assist in coming up with ways to address the answers.

7. They understand that promoting diversity will lead to tension in the organization, but are willing to manage the organization through it as it obtain its goal.

8. A leadership person is placed on the diversity team or committee, and would ideally lead the team (given that they have the expertise).

9. All correspondences concerning the diversity team's actions have a leadership person's name represented as at least one of the senders.

10. They seek to consider the diversity goals in all major decisions about the organizations.

Library - Informational Materials - Diversity Questions