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Tips for Rooting Out Hidden Bias

Everyone harbors unconscious prejudice. The trick is gaining enough insight to prevent it from affecting who you hire and how you treat people. Skin color, gender and age are generally what people think of when they consider biases, but individuals can harbor unconscious prejudice about characteristics including Height and weight, Introversion and extroversion, Marital and parental status, Disability status etc. All of these characteristics and many others can imperceptibly influence everything from who gets interviewed to who gets hired to who gets fired. They can affect the way people are mentored, how employees socialize with one another, who is given plum assignments and promotions, and much more. Which is why a growing number of corporations offer training programs aimed at rooting out hidden biases. Here are a few tips for Avoiding Biased Behavior: Increase purposeful mentoring and coaching - Sponsor people who are not like you. Be proactive about recognizing people’...

Incorporating Psychological Safety In Your Team

Psychological safety is when you feel safe in your team and you are more open about admitting your mistake, speaking up with ease without being embarrassed, and experimenting with new things. To make your team feel psychologically safe you need to first create an environment that encourages it.  You can do it by following simple steps:  1. Learning from Mistakes: In a psychologically safe environment, teams are more open to admitting their mistakes and acknowledge each other for their work. They are more clear about finding the solution rather than blaming each other.  2. Difference Without Conflicts: In a psychologically safe team, differences mean having diverse ideas and opinions about how to approach work. There is mutual respect among each other and each member of the team is given full autonomy to put their ideas on the table. 3. Openness In Team: Teams work with more efficiency when each member can bring their true self with them.  4. Improvement...

What are 3 major differences between diversity and inclusion?

Diversity defines the who and the what. Who’s being recruited, who’s sitting around the table, who we are promoting. It implies variety in characteristics like age, gender, caste etc. Inclusion on the other hand is the how! It defines the behaviours that welcomes and embraces diversity. It describes how each person is accepted, welcomed, respected, supported and valued. Diversity and Inclusion  matters because of: Less Turnover: If employees feel accepted and valued, they are less likely to leave. Gender equality results in lowered levels of harassment. The teams are more likely to understand the target customers and perform well. This results in new ideas, creativity and innovation.

Find Diverse Talent For Your Organization with Vividhta Consulting

Trained recruiters at Vividhta understand the complexity in finding diverse talent for organizations. Whether your aim is gender balancing or to become more inclusive with specially-abled resources, Vividhta Consulting provides you the right profile suited for your needs. Our diversity consultants are equipped to help you identify potential areas for diversity, work out a structured approach to help you increase the diversity profile of your organization. Get more info at https://www.vividhta.in/ Follow us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VividhtaConsulting Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/diversijob/ 

How do you find employers that value diversity?

Diversity is about embracing and honoring one another's uniqueness. Diversity and inclusion is important core value to many workers-so it's important to search for a company that has diversity and inclusion rooted in its company values. The underlying fact is that people from diverse backgrounds bring creativity to the workplace! Diversity does include race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender, but it also includes different socioeconomic levels, religions and colleges and universities. The companies that take diversity and inclusion seriously are in position to secure the best talent that will continue to drive their inclusive efforts into the future. How do you find employers that value diversity? http://www.vividhta.in/ Follow Vividhta Consulting at: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VividhtaConsulting Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/diversijob/