Inclusion Consulting and Strategy Development
Do you need expert support for your inclusion and culture change efforts? In addition to the facilitation programs we offer, we can help you through any stage of the process: developing strategic inclusion and diversity plans, building a business case for inclusion, conducting retention studies, developing metrics and surveys, examining existing systems and practices, and more.
Inclusion Conversation™
Facilitated by members of the Inclusity team, these conversations help your employees develop stronger work relationships and anticipate issues before they cast a shadow over performance. Using our Elements of Individuality™ model as the basis for the conversation, our facilitators allow your employees and their direct supervisors to work with greater trust, communication, and collaboration.
Building trust, communication, and collaboration, one relationship and one team at a time.
The National Association of Colleges and Employers tells us that the average cost of taking on a new employee in 2012 was just over $5100, with a range between $2800 and $11300 depending on the number of current employees. Multiplying this number by the millions of new employees hired every year by organizations, we can easily see how much productive capital is invested in new employees every year.
To make the most out of what you put into new hires, you want to ensure that they can quickly integrate into your workplace so they can engage and contribute to the fullest as soon as possible. We offer the Inclusion Conversation™ process as a tool to catalyze this process, in the form of both facilitated discussions and “train-the-trainer” programs.
Inclusion Conversations were designed to help supervisors and new employees quickly and efficiently build trust, increase collaboration, and establish healthy patterns of communication. The tools we use in our IC process are simple and user-friendly, and the results are quick and easy to see.
Team Connection
Many organizations arrange their employees in teams to work as productively as possible. When teams acquire new members and become increasingly diverse, it can be difficult for everyone to communicate as openly and honestly as they need to. Inclusity’s Team Connection™ process helps you quickly build new teams and increase the trust and collaboration of existing ones. Led by members of the Inclusity team or by internally trained facilitators, the Team Connection is targeted to improve team effectiveness.
We create inclusive team environments to maximize performance.
The Team Connection is a four- to eight-hour facilitated experience that utilizes Inclusity tools to maximize your team’s effectiveness.
Before the process begins, our facilitator works closely with your team leaders to customize the session, aligning it with the team’s overall strategic direction. During the facilitated team experience, your Inclusity facilitator will lead you through a process which will enable team members to speak freely about themselves and their work styles, as well as how they prefer to be treated by others. This process lets them express their opinions of each other and their supervisor(s) in a confidential environment, without the fear of retaliation.
The Team Connection is one of our most popular programs, and the results of past sessions have been very promising. Pre- and post-surveys confirm that team member trust has improved by 18-35% as a result of their participation. If you want to enrich your team members’ trust and openness, this program is for you.
The Team Connection will provide your work teams with an action plan that ensures all team members are heard and included. Where appropriate the facilitator provides your team with a feedback model and coaches members through the process of giving and receiving honest feedback. Other topics that can be addressed include stress behaviors, personality styles, thinking styles, communication styles, conflict management and change management.