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You’re aware of the importance of DEI and progressing in your journey! At this stage, you may have begun with DEI training or standalone initiatives like cultural event recognition, but perhaps you’re still lacking a broader and more cohesive strategy. Employees might have some foundational knowledge, but there is room for improvement in the breadth and depth of learning. Steps to progressing to the next level include:

• Gathering relevant, timely DEI data insights to inform a more cohesive strategy
• Regularly and effectively monitoring and reporting on DEI progress
• Enhancing or deepening your organisational learning to foster inclusive behaviours
• Bringing DEI into the underlying mission and values of the organisation.

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You’re highly engaged in your DEI journey! You have likely begun to ensure that specific demographic groups are represented in your workforce, and you’ve achieved internal agreement on the importance of DEI with senior leaders supporting and sponsoring activity. Your DEI strategy may be linked to the business strategy at this stage, and you are focused on ensuring your policies and processes are inclusive. There may still be gaps in understanding the on-the-ground employee experience as it relates to DEI beyond the fundamental components. There may also be more to do in aligning DEI to performance. Steps to progressing to the next level include:

• Deepening insights to better understand how different demographics are faring
• Broadening knowledge across managers and all employees
• Aligning DEI into performance management at all levels.

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You’re advancing in your DEI journey! At this stage, you may be close to achieving equity within the organisation and cultural competence across the workforce. DEI is wrapped into performance management across all levels, and you have systems in place to monitor and report on progress. You may be eager to advance your organisational learning and efforts in this space to truly innovate. Steps to progressing to the next level include:

• Learning to truly harness the power of difference to build high-functioning and diverse creative teams - and using this as a mechanism to drive further innovation and business value.

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You’re a DEI Leader! At this stage, DEI values are likely foundational to your organisational functioning, with solid processes in place to ensure accountability as you continue to encourage a global mindset. You have a dedicated DEI leader with access to the senior team. There is always room to grow, and at this level, steps to progressing to the next phase might include continuing to drive diversity and creative innovation, an ongoing commitment to organisational growth and learning, and ensuring the inclusive experience remains in place for all employees through organisational changes. inclusio provides a variety of DEI training courses delivered by DEI experts – For more details, click here to view our courses.