Sessions
Concurrent Session
Translating Your D&I Efforts into Bottom-Line Impact
203-204
Thursday 10/27/2016 09:30 AM - 10:45 AM
1.25 SHRM PDCs
| Competencies: Global & Cultural Effectiveness, Business Acumen
| Intended Audience: Mid-Level
Workplace Application:
Increase your business acumen and build competencies to enrich your D&I skills at a strategic level.
Diversity & HR leaders often focus on the tactical aspects of D&I programming, ignoring the more important (and more difficult) work of aligning D&I to the organization's most pressing business objectives in a thoughtful and strategic way. This session will show you how to create strategies that are bolstered by a strong business case, using a “new strategic diversity framework” and tools that are strengthened by a clear vision and mission, and aligned with business objectives. By the end of this session, you will know how to:
- Create strategies that are supported by a strong business case using a “new strategic diversity framework” and strategy tools.
- Apply a 10-step process to align your diversity strategies with your organization's strategic business objectives.
- Utilize the Diversity High Impact Tool to solidify diversity's line-of-sight to drive measurable business results and bottom-line impact.
- Understand the five factors that are key to business alignment.
