Diversity Training

We tell you the best ways to find and implement successful diversity training and how to measure your results, plus career advice on avoiding microinequities in the workplace.

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How You Measure Training Success
What are the most effective ways to measure diversity-training success? Interviews and data supplied by more than 20 top companies show that employee engagement, retention, promotions and contributions to the business can be directly tied to successful training. More»
The Best Types of Diversity Training
What's the most effective type of diversity training? It depends on the corporate culture and issues such as geography and employee-base size. We've distilled the best answers from 20 surveyed DiversityInc Top 50 companies for you. More»
Is Mandatory Diversity Training Necessary?
Why do 64 percent of the DiversityInc Top 50 make diversity training mandatory for their entire work force and 80 percent for all their managers? Interviews with 20 leading diversity-training companies demonstrate the necessity for mandatory training. What lessons can you learn from their experiences? More»
DiversityIncBestPractices Quarterly Call on Diversity Training
The Training Continuum: From Compliance to Diversity More»
Diversity Training Goes Way Beyond Compliance
What's the difference between compliance and real diversity training? In the first of a four-part series involving interviews with more than 20 DiversityInc Top 50 companies that excel at diversity training, DiversityInc gives you the answer. This part of the series is based on a quarterly call held recently for DiversityIncBestPractices.com members, featuring the expertise of noted employment attorney Bob Gregg of Boardman Law Firm. More»
14 Case Studies of Effective Diversity Training
This month, DiversityIncBestPractices.com takes a hard look at diversity training—what works, what can be measured, and what you can learn from the nation's diversity-training leaders. In this third part of our four-part series, we bring you case studies from the companies most effectively using diversity training to create an inclusive and competitive work force. More»
Why You Need Mandatory Diversity Training
There's a reason why 70 percent of The 2008 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity have mandatory diversity training for their entire work forces and 90 percent have mandatory diversity training for all their managers. More»
8 Effective Ways to Measure Diversity Training
In the first of an exclusive four-part series on effective diversity training, DiversityIncBestPractices.com examines the most successful training metrics from the best training companies in The 2008 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity®. Find out what works and how you can use it at your company. More»
Diversity Trainers: Internal, External or Both?
Should you use internal or external diversity trainers? Or both? We surveyed the best training companies in The DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity® database to find out what works for them. More»
5 Ways Diversity Training EQUALS Culturally Competent Customer Service
Your company's relationship with the public depends on your customer-service representatives, the frontline dealing with people's concerns. What's the key to creating and sustaining customer-service departments that relate to traditionally underrepresented groups? Strong, measurable diversity training. Read this article from the October 2007 issue of DiversityInc magazine. More»
Debunking the Attack on Diversity Training
A DiversityIncBestPractices.com reader recently attended the World Diversity Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C., and heard Prof. Frank Dobbin of Harvard University present. He claimed that diversity training is ineffective. The reader contacted us to ask for our opinion. Here is a debunking article we published last year of the actual study cited, which explains in detail why it is an invalid and inaccurate attack on diversity training. More»
Time Magazine's Diversity Delusion
A recent article in Time entitled "The Diversity Delusion" addressed the implications of a Harvard sociologist's research that claimed diversity training has no positive impact on work-force representation. DiversityInc already debunked this study in November, but we want to tell you emphatically why you shouldn't believe everything you read. More»
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