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Do You Know Where You Stand on Diversity: Schneider~Ross Helping Clients Decide "What's Next?" - Oct 2007
Are you investing a lot of time in diversity-related benchmarking? And, are you left wondering whether it really helps you improve? There is an alternative way to uncover what could most accelerate your progress. Schneider~Ross has an approach that we can tailor to your needs. We combine a structured assessment, our long experience and knowledge of best practice to help you identify the changes that will have the most impact in your particular situation.
Why are we confident our approach works? Firstly, it was designed with input from leading companies and integrates their priorities and needs. Secondly, it’s a proven approach, used since 2004 with organisations such as BP, Barclays and Unilever. It has been used to help the members of the Global Diversity Network (GDN), which we manage. One global head of diversity wrote recently "The GDN, and the data gathered through the benchmarking process, allow me to calibrate my company with other progressive organisations. It helps me to prioritize my D & I agenda as we strive to be a leader in this area." We are confident our approach can help you as well.
This is a practical method, designed to test how effectivly you have integrated diversity and inclusiveness into important aspects of your organisation. It’s not about what you say but what you do and the outcomes achieved. As part of the process, we will help you draw comparisons with other leading organisations that have used the same measurement approach.
We can help you assess your performance in one or more of the four branches shown below using both quantitative and qualiative data.
Our approach drills beyond strategic intentions, into enabling practices and outcomes. Each of the four branches is made up of a number of goal areas that are critical to successful integration. You may not have had an opportunity for guided thinking like this in the past. Could it help you do a better job of defining your future priorities and deciding where you really need to invest energy next? We will tell you what we see as relative strengths and priority development needs and identify good practices you should consider.
The Output? A pragmatic picture of diversity and inclusiveness in your organisation and what will most help you to accelerate progress. Normally, key findings and recommendations are delivered both in a written report and in a face to face discussion of the results.
We can adapt the approach to fit your needs and resources:
~ Are there one or two of the branches you would like to tackle first?
~ How much data-gathering and assessment can you do in-house?
~ Are you most interested in reviewing your approach at a global or local sale?
~ Would a feedback seminar for leaders led by Schneider~Ross be helpful?
~ Might a group of similar organisations want to work together with you on this?
~ Would it be valuable to compare units within your own organisation?
In addition to integrated assessments - Schneider~Ross work with clients who want to assess competitive positioning on very specific issues, critical to them. These can use both public domain information and surveys across cooperating groups. One recent study for a global bank compared diversity-sensitive processes with those seen in other organisations. The results allowed us to identify a number of areas for action by the client.
To discuss how to make sense of where you are on diversity and inclusiveness please call +44 (0)1264 882400 or send an email to info@schneider-ross.com to arrange an initial discussion.
Why are we confident our approach works? Firstly, it was designed with input from leading companies and integrates their priorities and needs. Secondly, it’s a proven approach, used since 2004 with organisations such as BP, Barclays and Unilever. It has been used to help the members of the Global Diversity Network (GDN), which we manage. One global head of diversity wrote recently "The GDN, and the data gathered through the benchmarking process, allow me to calibrate my company with other progressive organisations. It helps me to prioritize my D & I agenda as we strive to be a leader in this area." We are confident our approach can help you as well.
This is a practical method, designed to test how effectivly you have integrated diversity and inclusiveness into important aspects of your organisation. It’s not about what you say but what you do and the outcomes achieved. As part of the process, we will help you draw comparisons with other leading organisations that have used the same measurement approach.
We can help you assess your performance in one or more of the four branches shown below using both quantitative and qualiative data.
Our approach drills beyond strategic intentions, into enabling practices and outcomes. Each of the four branches is made up of a number of goal areas that are critical to successful integration. You may not have had an opportunity for guided thinking like this in the past. Could it help you do a better job of defining your future priorities and deciding where you really need to invest energy next? We will tell you what we see as relative strengths and priority development needs and identify good practices you should consider.
The Output? A pragmatic picture of diversity and inclusiveness in your organisation and what will most help you to accelerate progress. Normally, key findings and recommendations are delivered both in a written report and in a face to face discussion of the results.
We can adapt the approach to fit your needs and resources:
~ Are there one or two of the branches you would like to tackle first?
~ How much data-gathering and assessment can you do in-house?
~ Are you most interested in reviewing your approach at a global or local sale?
~ Would a feedback seminar for leaders led by Schneider~Ross be helpful?
~ Might a group of similar organisations want to work together with you on this?
~ Would it be valuable to compare units within your own organisation?
In addition to integrated assessments - Schneider~Ross work with clients who want to assess competitive positioning on very specific issues, critical to them. These can use both public domain information and surveys across cooperating groups. One recent study for a global bank compared diversity-sensitive processes with those seen in other organisations. The results allowed us to identify a number of areas for action by the client.
To discuss how to make sense of where you are on diversity and inclusiveness please call +44 (0)1264 882400 or send an email to info@schneider-ross.com to arrange an initial discussion.