Mentoring for Diversity and Inclusion

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Mentoring for Diversity and Inclusion

In today’s world, diversity in the workplace is no longer a nice-to-have, but a must-have for organizations that want to maintain competitive advantage in a global environment. Diverse and inclusive organizations are able to deploy a wide range of knowledge and skills, reach out to a varied client base, and motivate talented employees from all backgrounds to perform their best.

What is diversity, anyways?

Some organizations define diversity using numbers, quotas, and statistics – believing that all they need to do is hit their target numbers for each "minority group" in management. But to achieve sustainable diversity in the long term, and to align it with business goals, diversity needs to be not merely an end in itself, but a business strategy and a means to a better bottom line.

Through mentoring for diversity and inclusion, your organization can:

• Discover top talent that you might never have known you had
• Empower all employees to navigate their career paths in a way that benefits both themselves and the organization
• Establish diversity that is naturally sustained, relationship-driven, and a catalyst of talent and business results

Read our latest article Mentoring – Enhancing Diversity Strategically and Sustainably for Bottom Line Results to learn more about why mentoring is a highly effective and crucial diversity solution for today’s best-in-class organizations.

Contact us today to learn more about our mentoring solutions and how they can power your diversity initiative.

Consulting Solution Features

Our experienced mentoring consultants provide your program/organization with the following:

• Mentoring Organizational Readiness and Effectiveness (M*O*R*E) Workshop - Set goals tailored to your diversity initiative, set metrics that track sustainable progress, and develop an effective action plan to accomplish your goals.
• A Proven Mentoring Process for Program Implementation - Ensure that you establish a well-defined mentoring process, with key components such as generating management buy-in, marketing the program to the right audience, effective matching and pairing methodology, avenues of communication, and more.
• Program Content Design and Customization - Tailor the elements and content of your mentoring program to align with your diversity objectives you have defined – ensuring optimal program relevance and effectiveness.
• Training Sessions - Hold training sessions for mentors, mentees, and respective managers and supervisors - conducted by consultants who are experienced in diversity initiatives by way of both research and hands-on application.

Technology Solution Features

While matching and pairing, tracking, accountability and engagement are important for any initiative, they are absolutely crucial for diversity initiatives. Our online mentoring software aids your program with the following :

• Mentor/mentee application process and proven matching and pairing methodology that can be customized to fit your diversity initiative
• Program manager tool that enables management of multiple diversity initiatives from a single portal
• Robust tracking and reporting tools
• User interface that can be customized to reflect the look and feel of your diversity initiative
• Competency assessments that can be tailored to your organization's diversity initiative
• Online psychometric assessments to aid matching/pairing and mentor-mentee communication
• Communication portal for use by the mentor, mentee, and managers/supervisors
• Ability to upload your own diversity initiative content
• Secure and streamlined storage of program data

Benefits

With mentoring for diversity and inclusion:

• Align your diversity initiative with real business goals – generating organizational buy-in and support
• Retain and develop your top talent from various backgrounds and perspectives
• Achieve sustainable inclusion through voluntary partnerships between individuals
• Fully engage each and every employee to unleash their full potential
• Enhance your talent pipeline
• Brand your organization as one with superior career development initiatives for ALL employees
• Leverage employee differences as crucial business assets

Mentoring Articles

• Insala Facilitates Mentoring Work Group at Hillary Clinton and U.S. Department of State's Women in Public Service Project (Dec 13, 2011)
  Insala's Director of Mentoring Services Judy Corner, has been invited to lead a mentoring and networking discussion at the launch of the U.S. State Department and Seven Sister’s Women in Public Service Project
• Insala Offers HR Professionals New Online Community To Assist With Mentoring Initiatives (Nov 8, 2011)
  HR professionals now have a new online networking community providing the necessary tools for HR professionals to greatly improve mentoring within their organization
• Insala Shares Best Practices For Mentor Matching, Ensuring Successful and Sustainable Partnerships (Sep 13, 2011)
  Insala, a leading global provider of innovative mentor and talent development solutions, announces its upcoming webinar - Matching mentors with mentees – How do you find the best possible match?
• How One Company Used Mentoring to Improve Time-to-Productivity for a Critical Role (Jul 22, 2011)
  So how can you ramp up new hires to be productive for your company more quickly? How can you shorten a new hire’s learning curve? And most importantly - how can you measure the results? The answer mentoring.
• Insala Partners with the International Society of Diversity and Inclusion Professionals to Provide Mentoring for its Members (Jul 18, 2011)
  Insala, announces its strategic partnership with The International Society of Diversity and Inclusion Professionals (ISDIP), the first global comprehensive association for the diversity and inclusion field.
• How to Position Mentoring for Strategic Talent Development (Jun 8, 2011)
  There are many benefits of formal corporate mentoring program as a talent development strategy. For example, mentoring can be a cost-effective alternative or complement to traditional training programs, and a formal mentoring program’s alignment with critical business objectives can be clearly measured and demonstrated.
• What is Mentoring Today, and How is it Being Used Strategically within An Organization? (May 12, 2011)
  If you are considering a corporate mentoring program or have been charged with the task of investigating mentoring, then clarifying some basic concepts and seeing what’s new in the industry can be helpful.
• Insala Demonstrates How to Build a Solid Business Case for a Corporate Mentoring Program (May 5, 2011)
  For organizations looking to start a formal mentoring program, this webinar is a great way to start.