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The old adage that “knowledge is power” is certainly true, but if that knowledge isn’t available in a comprehensible form, it doesn’t deliver its promise.
Diversity-management knowledge has been accumulating in our publication and at progressive companies for more than a decade now. But like most subjects in development, its progress is scattershot, with surges in some areas as they become relevant (employee-resource groups, cross-cultural mentoring) and gaps as well.
We’ve heard—at our events, at our benchmarking debriefs, at our roundtables, and in our daily conversations with chief diversity officers and their staffs—that it’s often confusing to find the answers to questions, the latest research, and the logistical next steps in setting up the most effective diversity-management initiatives.
That’s why we have relaunched DiversityIncBestPractices.com to most benefit the corporate subscribers who use it. We started with a formal outline of the diversity-management topics we know are crucial to producing sustainable and measurable results. Those topics and subtopics, including CEO Commitment, Workforce Diversity, Recruitment, Retention and Work/Life, Talent Development/Mentoring, Employee-Resource Groups, Diversity Councils and Supplier Diversity, can be viewed by at www.DiversityIncBestPractices.com/about-us.
DiversityInc CEO Luke Visconti coined the phrase “living textbook” to describe what DiversityInc Best Practices now is—it’s evolving every day as we add new content to fit specifically in the outline. We’ve also realigned our editorial calendar so our regular benchmarking reports, webinars, the magazine and the more general-interest stories on DiversityInc.com also reflect the same topics. You can learn more about that at www.DiversityInc.com/mediakit.
It’s been reorganized more like a textbook than a news website, so you can actually go to the topic you are interested in and the stories, videos, webinars and roundtables are arranged in an order that helps you develop your program from the basics to the most cutting-edge techniques.
The best way to view DiversityIncBestPractices.com is as a complement to your benchmarking service. DiversityIncBestPractices.com gives you the how-to’s, case studies and general information on all the current diversity-management initiatives. The benchmarking focuses on your company’s individual situation and the nuanced short- and long-term strategies that will produce human-capital and supplier-diversity results.
To return to the “knowledge is power” adage: You can use this knowledge to gain support in your organization and create an innovative workforce that connects with your customers and clients. But to do that, you have to understand what you need to know and how to use the information. Please check out www.DiversityIncBestPractices.com and learn from our living textbook.
