Measuring DEI Impact: Accountability & Metrics
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Toolkit Contents
What can you expect to find within this toolkit? Let’s take a closer look:
Section I: Tailored DEI Metrics
Section II: Impactful Measurement Systems
Section III: Data Analysis for Insights
Section IV: Cultivating Accountability
Section I: Tailored DEI Metrics
Developing an effective DEI metrics strategy leverages data in a way that helps drive business results.
Section II: Impactful Measurement Systems
Setting up systems to gather accurate data and evaluate the effectiveness of DEI initiatives.
Section III: Data Analysis for Insights
Strategies to analyze data to inform future DEI efforts, identifying areas for improvement.
Section IV: Cultivating Accountability
Techniques to foster a culture of accountability among leadership and teams, ensuring sustained progress.
Additional Resources
To Make Lasting Progress on DEI, Measure Outcomes
Organizations often struggle to identify the right DEI metrics; Lily Zheng recommends focusing on outcome metrics beyond demographics, developing tailored proxy metrics with a theory of change, and planning in advance to use data for follow-up actions.
Seven Sets Of Metrics That Will Help You Define And Achieve DEI Goals
Forbes contributor, Paolo Gaudiano suggests that organizations should collect granular metrics in seven areas—recruitment, hiring, onboarding, day-to-day activities, compensation, advancement, and retention—to set and achieve meaningful DEI goals and track progress effectively.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Analytics
HireRoad emphasizes that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) are essential not only for building representative workplaces and driving business performance but also as a fundamental human rights issue, requiring a comprehensive, organization-wide approach supported by data and analytics to ensure lasting progress and increased belonging.
How To Hold Leaders Accountable for Their DEI Commitments
Latesha Byrd outlines seven strategies to hold leaders accountable for their DEI commitments, emphasizing setting clear goals, regular check-ins, employee engagement, data-driven progress measurement, celebrating wins, providing educational resources, and directly addressing executives when they fail to meet DEI goals.
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