Creating a Climate for Diversity: The 15 Tips

Over the past several months, I have proffered 15 tips you can use to create inclusive organizational environments. To summarize and for easy reference, I have listed these tips below with a hyperlink to each blog post:

1. Create opportunities for culturally different individuals to interact with each other on a continuous basis.
   
2. Help employees develop the skills they need to effectively communicate, resolve conflict and solve problems in culturally diverse environments.
   
3. Develop, implement and enforce anti-harassment and discrimination policies.
   
4. Actively work to recruit a high quality, culturally diverse workforce.
   
5. Ensure that organizational policies and practices support a diverse workforce.
   
6. Formally assess the diversity climate and make changes as needed.
   
7. Make sure the work environment supports the physically challenged.
   
8. Facilitate a brown bag educational series.
   
9. Provide a mentor for every new employee.
   
10. Start an organizational diversity program.
    
11. Provide performance coaching for every employee.
    
12. Start resource groups for underrepresented group members.
    
13. Hold your meetings and events at a local cultural center.
    
14. Hold a series of town hall meetings.
    
15. Facilitate a cultural audit and make changes as needed.
    

I will provide more tips for creating a climate for diversity in the future!

Next Post: February 24, 2014 – The 3 Barriers to Effective Multicultural Communication