How to improve
Now that you have your results you should use them to make a public commitment to improving them.
1. Identify which areas need improvement
In a small organisation the sample size might be too small to fully represent the diversity of society, so it’s not about getting exact percentages right.
You should however assess which areas can be improved. Is your gender ratio skewed? Do you employ nobody with a disability? Is everyone in your organisation white?
2. Make an action plan
Once you know what your potential challenges are you need to plan how to address them. That might mean:
- Developing more parent friendly policies
- Allowing job-sharing
- Specifically advertising your commitment to making a supportive workplace for people with disabilities
- Changing your hiring strategies
State clearly what your goals are, and when you’re going to achieve them.
3. Check periodically how you’re doing
Some of the changes you will make will take a long time to come to fruition, so make sure you schedule time to check in on your progress regularly.
Send out the survey again at appropriate intervals.
Resources
We collected some resources that can help you improve your internal processes and policies.
Improving hiring processes
- 25 tips for diverse hiring
- A list of resources on diverse hiring collected by Alice Bartlett
- Reducing male bias in hiring from Geek Feminism Wiki
Retaining diverse teams
Further reading
- The 101-level reader: books to help you better understand your biases and the lived experiences of people, list of books grouped by subject, collated by Ashe Dryden
- Feminism 101 from Geek Feminism Wiki
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