Daily Practices of Inclusive Leaders

Chapter 6

ATTRACT

Talent acquisition is an initial entry point for many organizations who are starting ID&E efforts. While attracting a diversity of talent is clearly important, we believe it is a mistake to center an entire ID&E strategy around it. Remember: attracting talent is just one of the many important 3D pieces in the employee life cycle.

What happens when you focus primarily on attracting diversity without training your leaders in how to manage and engage difference and how to build a culture of belonging? Best-case scenario: diverse talent feels underestimated and unseen, and becomes disengaged. They certainly won’t be your organization’s biggest champions. That kind of organizational branding can seriously impede diversity recruiting ...