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Forbes: 10 Ways to Attract Diverse Talent | Learn essential tips to start your company or organization's journey.

Forbes: The Benefits Of Creating A Diverse Workforce | In addition to being more inclusive, data shows that more diverse teams and companies are more effective.

Top 10 Benefits of Diversity in the Workplace | Workplace diversity attracts top talent, makes teams more productive, results in more creativity, and more.

Harvard Business Review: The Value of Belonging At Work | Social belonging is often described as an innate human need. Belonging is not only best for everyone’s wellbeing, but creates a work environment that is healthier, happier, and productive.

13 Benefits and Challenges of Cultural Diversity in the Workplace | Embracing and encouraging diversity in the workplace through recruitment and culture shifts is time and time again shown to be a best practice. Making these changes is not without its challenges—challenges that are helpful to be aware of when committing to this work.

Bridging: Towards a Society Built on Belonging | A brief but helfpul video from the Othering & Belonging Institute's director, john a. powell: "Having collective anxiety due to rapid change is a normal biological reaction, but how we respond to this anxiety is social. And our social responses are greatly shaped by the stories presented from those we look to as leaders and through the power of culture."

How to Get Serious About Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace | In this candid talk, inclusion advocate Janet Stovall shares a three-part action plan for creating workplaces where people feel safe and expected to be their unassimilated, authentic selves.

Why Diversity Matters- Katherine Phillips Talks @ Columbia | Embracing diversity means valuing differences and what makes us unique as opposed to only working to see what you have in common with others.

Emtrain—Workplace Culture Report 2021 | This report takes a data-driven approach to inclusion. Get the facts and figures on how and why inclusion matters. A very engaging and visual report.

Better Up—The Value of Belonging At Work | Belonging is often a concept that is difficult to measure. This report is able to quantify belonging in the workplace through three phases: the value of belonging, Behavioral evidence for the cost of exclusion, and and testing novel interactions. After this analysis, the report provides 5 tools to help your organization foster a culture of belonging in the workplace.

How to Develop a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiative | A step-by-step outline on how to get started in this early essential step.

Are Your D&I Efforts Helping Employees Feel Like They Belong? | Inclusion efforts don’t necessarily lead to a sense of belonging among everyone. See how organizations and managers can work towards creating a culture where employees can bring their full selves to work.

3 Requirements for a Diverse and Inclusive Culture | A great starting place is to simply ask employees how they feel at the organization. From there, managers and organizations can delve into these requirements to improve the culture.

Forbes: 15 Ways Your Organization Can Create a Safe Space in a Divisive World | Fifteen members of Forbes Coaches Council weighed in on how you can make your organization a place where employees feel included, appreciated, and safe.

SHRM: Creating a Safe Space at Work for Discussing Social Justice Topics | Creating a safe space must have the involvement of senior leaders, include policies, and creating a culture of trust.

Build a Sense of Belonging in the Workplace | 3 actions to promote belonging.

Beyond Diversity: How Firms are Cultivating a Sense of Belonging | Leadership at bigger organizations share some of their tactics to ensure their employees feel they belong.

How to Foster a Sense of Belonging Among Employees Who Work Remotely | COVID has entirely changed the way the workplace works—especially because the workplace arguably no longer exists for many of us. The world has learned to operate remotely, so even with the ending of the pandemic, workplace flexibility is likely to stay. Learn some tricks and tricks to keep your belonging initiatives going even though in-person workplace dynamics have been dramatically altered.

You Can Consciously Change Your Organization’s Culture | “Your corporate culture has a significant impact on whether or not your company accomplishes its most significant goals. You may need to tweak the culture, or you may need a complete culture overhaul. Although changing your organizational culture can feel like rolling rocks uphill, it will likely result in increased growth and revenue.”

Belonging: From Comfort to Connection to Contribution | Arriving at the “contribution” stage takes concentrated effort. Contribution isn’t simply employees doing their jobs; it is their ability to contribute to the employer and workplace in a way where they are wholly themselves and valued for being so.

Belonging in the Age of COVID | Businesses can take these five steps to improve employees' sense of belonging, even at a time of remote work and office shutdowns.

Diversity & Inclusion: the Reality Gap | It is now widely accepted among organizations and executives that diversity, equity, and inclusion should be top priorities. As more companies make these values a part of their mantras, it’s become clear that many have come up with what are only surficial solutions to address these topics.

Are You Creating a Culture of Belonging? With Pad Wadors | Discusses how to build inclusive and diverse workplaces where people feel like they belong so you can create psychological safety, develop people’s strengths, and support growth mindsets.

Culture First by Culture Amp | How does work culture shape human behavior and experience? How do humans create cultures? From uncomfortable truths to heart-to-heart conversations, Culture First uncovers what it really takes to build a better world of work. We all aspire to rise above the day-to-day commotion and bring more humanity into our work lives.

Building Belonging: 8 Pathways to Creating Inclusive, Joyful Organizational Communities | Learning Outcomes include: Gain skills to identify how your organization can move IDEA efforts from “fixing problems” to “building community; Learn best practices that have successfully engaged their organizations in practices that lead to greater belonging; Develop a deeper understanding of the human need for belonging

Inclusion Works podcast | "The Inclusion Works podcast explores the secrets of building inclusive culture at work and in the community."

Accommodating Religious Preferences in the Workplace | 5 basic tips to get your organization started on building a strong foundation for accommodating religion at the workplace.

Intersectionality in Organizations: Why ‘Bringing Your Whole Self to Work’ is Not Sufficient | DEI initiatives must incorporate intersectionality in everything they do in order to achieve equity in a holistic way. (Learn more about intersectionality here). This article provides examples of some organizations who have successfully integrated intersectionality in their policies and practices.

European Network Against Racism—Managing Religious Diversity in the Workplace: A Good Practice Guide | Reviews the barriers faced in the workplace in regard to religious diversity, how to manage religious diversity, and also provides case studies and good practices.

Manager Workplace Religious Accommodation Toolkit | Provides a chart that defines common buzz words in the religious accommodation world, FAQs, and common religious accommodations.

Religious Accommodation: 11 Practices to Avoid | There can be some problematic methods of working to make a religious accommodation a reality. View this quick read to ensure employees feel respected and not singled-out.

Anti-Defamation League—Religious Accommodation in the Workplace: Your Rights and Obligations | Answers FAQs and breaks down more bureaucratic terms used within the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission more specifically, in Title VII of the Civil Rights act of 1964.

5 tips on building intersectionality at work | A short but great overview of places to start when working on making DEI

Intersectionality in the Workplace: Broadening the Lens of Inclusion | Outlines the various forms individuals can face, from gender, sexuality, to veteran status, as well as being a leader in intersectionality at the workplace, tips to maintain and create an intersectional-thinking environment, and intersectionality glossary terms.

The Mosaic Project Action Guide for Businesses: 12 Tools & Tips for Taking Interpersonal Action for Social Change | Mosaic’s core principle of conflict resolution is that, “It’s not you and me against each other, but the two of us against the problem.” Read through the 12 tips and answer some self-reflection questions along the way.

Diversity Wins : How Inclusion Matters | Get information on the data of inequality across various contexts, what it means, and why it matters.

Culture Amp 6 Ways to Foster Belonging in the Workplace: Taking Diversity & Inclusion to the Next Level | Covers why we should focus on belonging, what belonging looks like in practice, and the 6 approaches you can use to help people feel like they belong.

Can Inclusion Be Measured in a Quantitative Way, Just Qualitative, or Both? | A brief but helpful overview of how inclusion can be measured in both qualitative ways, as well as quantitative ways. Also touches on best practices adopted by big companies across the US.

Bridging & Breaking- Dialogues in Belonging (30 minutes) | Bridging and Breaking is a three-part tool that takes learners on a guided journey. Each part increases by one’s “level”, experience, or awareness of belonging work. Each part can be done individually, but is meant to be used as a tool for trainers to train others.

Bridging & Breaking: Belonging in Practice (60 minutes)

Bridging & Breaking: Expanding Belonging (90 minutes)

Culture Amp: Build a More Inclusive Workplace | Includes a free starter kit and a report encompassing hundreds of companies on what has been learned through D&I in the workplace. Users can also request a personalized demo. Some paid features may apply, depending on how involved you want to get.

Survey Monkey: How to Measure Diversity & Inclusion for a Stronger Workplace | Includes free templates, guidance from diversity & inclusion leaders, and survey methodology.

The Intercultural Development Inventory and the Roadmap to Using it | The IDI assesses intercultural competence, an essential skill in creating an inclusive workplace and adapting to the increasing interconnectivity of our world. The Intercultural Development Inventory is a 50-item questionnaire available online that can be completed in 15–20 minutes.

D5 Data Collection Tools | Provides resources to get you started on collecting demographic data.

Emtrain Blog: How People Analytics Measure Workplace Belonging | A brief article that takes you beyond asking the simple question "Do you feel you belong in your workplace?"

20 Simple Employee Engagement Survey Questions You Should Ask | Discusses measuring employee engagement, best survey questions to ask, and why employee engagement surveys matter.

Forbes- Inclusion is Invisible: How to Measure It

Meaningful Metrics for Diversity & Inclusion by Include-Empower.com | Provides 8 steps to setting meaningful diversity & inclusion metrics

DIBS: Online Training with Pat Wadors | DIBS= Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging. Pat Wadors is a leading HR specialist whose work encompasses an aspect in D&I work that is often excluded: belonging. Take this step by step course on how to incorporate DIBs into your workplace.

3 Ways to Create a Work Culture that Brings Out the Best in Employees | Chris White | TedxAtlanta | Chris White leads the University of Michigan’s Center for Positive Organizations. Through ground-breaking research, educational programs and organizational partnerships, the center helps leaders build high-performing organizations that bring out the best in people.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | We often make assumptions of others based on a “single story” we have of a certain group or person in our heads. So much happens when we can remove ourselves from this narrative and see individuals as their whole, unique selves.

Kimberlé Crenshaw: The Urgency of Intersectionality | Hear from the expert on the concept and term herself on what intersectionality is and how it manifests.

Emtrain | Works to change workplace culture through various platforms, including trainings, resource guides, and a blog. There are paid and unpaid features.

From Diversity to Inclusion: Creating an Inclusive Workplace for Internationally Trained Individuals (ITI) | A specific focus on foreign trained professionals. Topics include hiring, retaining, cultural differences, intercultural competence, as well as many references to external sites that may prove to be useful for more specific information on the topics.

The Forum on Workplace Inclusion | Known for its annual forum, this resource also provides webinars, articles, podcasts, and videos on creating inclusive workplaces.