Best Practices

Quick tips to encourage your staff to embrace diversity

Teach associates how they can help create and support a fair and diverse workplace.

Here are some simple steps you can take to support workplace diversity:

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• Be aware of and try to correct personal biases.

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• Remember that "different" is a neutral term--it doesn't mean better or worse.

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• Let co-workers know how you feel when they joke about or put down others.

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• Reach out and invite people to join you.

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• Hire people from other cultures and share stories about your heritage and theirs (you may be surprised to find many common interests in addition to the differences).

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• Be flexible and willing to try different, perhaps unfamiliar, approaches.

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• Recognize each person as an individual with something important to offer the organization.

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