Management Programs

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

Instructor

Robin A. Crawford, CCDP