Strategic Planning Offsites to Use Diversity and Inclusion as a Core Business Strategy

Situation:
The Americas division of a major global corporation wanted to better align its existing diversity and inclusion strategy with the corporation’s core business strategy, key business goals, global HR strategic plan, and global diversity and inclusion priorities. This included design and selection of metrics with clear accountability for progress and design of a communication plan.

The division diversity team also wanted to further develop its expertise in aligning diversity and inclusion with key business goals.

Solution:
An intensive off-site workshop was designed specifically to this team’s learning and planning requirements.

The session combined learning and action planning in the areas of Business-Aligned® diversity and inclusion initiatives, metrics, accountability, workplace assessments, and communication. Each module provided learning via an interactive presentation and immediate application of the learning to produce the needed planning deliverable.

The planning work used existing business and diversity strategy and work plan documents as a starting point for creating clear Business-Aligned® D&I deliverables.

Outcome:
The team learned about more effectively aligning diversity and inclusion strategies with key business goals. A planning document was produced that crisply presented an aligned view of key business goals, intended changes, initiatives, and metrics. This one document consolidated the content of many other documents. It became the basis for engagement and commitment conversations with the global team and with the senior leadership team. Team members found operations senior executives enthusiastic about this new approach since they saw the direct link to their key business objectives.

See more about how MDB Group can design a Business-Aligned® Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Planning Off-site that will help you improve profitability, attain key business results, and manage reputation. .