Tools

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Stonehill’s 21 Best Practices for an Inclusive Organization were chosen to be powerful influencers on using your infrastructure/over-all operations (e.g., your values and how you structure, recruit, train, set goals, resolve conflicts, measure and manage) to give context to, and shape a “belonging” culture and behaviors.

Also chosen to be practical (sensible, doable & familiar), they work with current goals & tactics, apply to everyone, and are measurable and non-weaponizable, giving you quantifiable, positive inclusion “benchmarks” that help deliver DEI without today’s “drama".

This comprehensive “foundation” assures you reach your goals, without which, even good tactics may fail today.

Our assessment uses these 21 best practices in an anonymous, online survey of your organization, asking “to what extent” and “how important” each one is, which gives:

• A clear understanding of what needs to be strengthened in your organization to assure inclusion is foundational.
• Your people an understanding as to what specifically your organization supports for success today.

For each Best Practice, the Guide provides additional information and powerful tactics to move the needle on inclusion. These practical, researched actions are usable tactics to create and strengthen your inclusive infrastructure that benefits everyone.

The role of today’s manager/leader has changed given today’s challenges and the need for an inclusive culture:

• FROM – hire/manage for fit & tell everyone what to do (jobs fulfilled in a uniform way)
• TO – hire/manage for flex & provide what’s needed for agile, responsive connected teams

Our research has identified the 22 manager best practices (from what works and what doesn’t) that support today’s new role. The practices were chosen to assure both inclusion and success for the team. They cover:

• Building a Successful Team
• Supporting Your Team’s Success
• Sustaining Your Team’s Success

Additionally, adding any of the best practices to managers/leader training will strengthen the skill set of your management team.

Our assessment of manager’s team on these 22 best practices uses an anonymous, on line survey to ask “to what extent” the manager uses these practices and “how important” each one is to the team’s success. This pinpoints:

• the specific areas the manager can work on to improve their own management/leadership
• where the team needs to be further engaged as to the importance of some practices (rated low importance) so they can sustain an inclusive team.

The Tactics Guide provides practical, doable tactics and added information for each of the 22 Best Practices to help the manager as they update their skills & processes. The tactics are applicable to all manager/leader positions and chosen to support both inclusion and success of the team