Human Capital Development

16 E. 34th Street, NYC, 866-470-1922

Strategic Diversity Retention DV228

$ 895.00

  • Sep 20, 2013 - New York, NY
    9:00am - 4:30pm
    New York City ILR Conference Center, 16 East 34th Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY
    Faculty: Robin A. Crawford, CCDP/AP
    Robin A. Crawford, CCDP/AP, independent consultant and adjunct instructor for Cornell University ILR. Robin consults with, and teaches organizational leaders from across the US to incorporate Diversity and Inclusion in the talent management, business and change management process with the use of, business case development, communications plans, community outreach, and scorecard measurements and assessments. Robin served as the first ever Director of Diversity, EEO and Affirmative Action for WellPoint Health Networks; the second largest managed health care organization in America. While at WellPoint, she developed the company's strategic diversity management plan and executed company-wide initiatives throughout 90 offices. She was recognized with creating a successful business case, designing a diversity internet site, customizing and implementing company-wide training, diversity branding, recruiting and public relations strategy. Robin's efforts attributed to several external awards including the Catalyst Award for Managerial Women, honorable mention from DiversityInc and personal mention in Black Enterprise for the organization.

Many organizations spend time, effort, and money on recruiting a diverse workforce. Few, however, develop sophisticated diversity retention strategies that build on their recruiting efforts. As a result, they spend additional time, effort, and money to continuously recruit a diverse workforce. This highly interactive workshop emphasizes:

  • A step-by-step approach to developing a diversity retention strategy
  • The top ten reasons that diversity retention fails
  • Costs and benefits of a strategic approach to diversity retention

Key Topics

  • The value proposition of an effective approach to diversity retention
  • Auditing retention efforts in your organization
  • Linking recruiting and retention efforts
  • Developing an understanding of the human and organizational characteristics that foster diversity retention
  • Developing a competency model for retaining a diverse workforce
  • Creating and implementing a framework for analyzing and responding to systemic diversity retention issues
  • Building a climate for organizational inclusion
  • Developing an accountability matrix for managers to retain a diverse workforce
  • Understanding and managing the relationship between organizational value for diversity and retention
  • Building a diverse pipeline
  • Linking the diversity brand to retention
  • Executive responsibility for diversity retention
  • How a diverse workforce shapes work and organizations, and vice versa
  • Transparent succession planning as a diversity retention strategy
  • The "mentoring myth" and its relationship to diversity recruiting

Who Will Benefit

Managers, recruiters, diversity councils, EEO, AA, diversity, and other HR generalists and specialists who want to learn how to make diversity work for them in the performance of their responsibilities

Faculty


Robin A. Crawford, CCDP/AP, independent consultant and adjunct instructor for Cornell University ILR. Robin consults with, and teaches organizational leaders from across the US to incorporate Diversity and Inclusion in the talent management, business and change management process with the use of, business case development, communications plans, community outreach, and scorecard measurements and assessments. Robin served as the first ever Director of Diversity, EEO and Affirmative Action for WellPoint Health Networks; the second largest managed health care organization in America. While at WellPoint, she developed the company's strategic diversity management plan and executed company-wide initiatives throughout 90 offices. She was recognized with creating a successful business case, designing a diversity internet site, customizing and implementing company-wide training, diversity branding, recruiting and public relations strategy. Robin's efforts attributed to several external awards including the Catalyst Award for Managerial Women, honorable mention from DiversityInc and personal mention in Black Enterprise for the organization.