Diversity and Inclusion Metrics: What and How to Measure
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion continue to be a priority but how can organizations measure success? From creating Employee Resource Groups to implementing critical training programs, cultivating inclusive workplaces requires various dimensions, efforts and metrics.
This month, ModelExpand’s #Culture+DiversityEventSeries hosted a panel of industry leaders from Google, Sonos, LiveRamp, and ChainAlysis to share their insights on: defining DEI metrics, helpful tools + resources, & how DEI metrics can be used for improvement and accountability.
Click play to watch the Event Recording Below!
Objective Metrics
When it comes to measuring Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Access metrics, finding the right numbers can be challenging as you don’t want to set arbitrary quotas. Profile your organization with benchmarks to get a sense of where you need to go. DEI metrics that focus on your employee life cycle, such as representation of diverse talent, and retention, are good place to start to understand your organization better. DEI metrics that focused on employee experience, such as employee engagement scores and Employee Resource Group (ERG) participation are good tools to understanding how employees feel about their journey in the organization and where you can improve as an employer.
Helpful Tools + Resources
Software:
Engagement Surveys by Demographic: SurveyMonkey DEI Guide and CultureAmp
Industry Benchmarks: Gartner
Candidate Outreach tools: GEM, Jam Software and Joonka
Inclusive Job Descriptions: Textio
When designing goals and metrics, helpful resources to utilize:
Data Accessibility for Strategic Global Resource Optimisation
Global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Benchmarks: Standards for Organizations
How to Use DEI Metrics
Understand where your organization and individuals are at so you can help them move forward. Diversity work is most successful to lead with influence through trust and being a team player.
Use helpful tools and software to track specific metrics that will help solve the challenges your organization is facing.
Connect those metrics to initiatives such as innovation, employee retention and other organizational goals.
Create leadership accountability for building a culture of inclusivity
Sign up for the next Culture + Diversity Event Series on How To Model Inclusive Behavior As Managers June 17th from 9-10am PT. Register below!
ModelExpand is a diversity, equity and inclusion consulting firm focused on radically accelerating the presence of historically underrepresented people in the workforce. ModelExpand’s work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Forbes and CultureAmp. Need support embedding Diversity, Equity and Inclusion within your organization? Contact us below.
