
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.