Signs your small business needs a DEI consultant
Every size organization will benefit from engaging with diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility and belonging. With an increasing backlash to diversity and inclusion work, I want to help small businesses build into the foundations of how you do business the principles of equity and inclusion that are going to support diversity and belonging within your organization.
If you’re experiencing any of the following symptoms, I’d invite you to build a budget to hire a consultant to support you through making some systemic changes to help you move forward holistically.
As DEI consultants, we can help you address:
High turnover
Lack of employee engagement
Low Morale
Difficulty attracting top talent
Negative feedback from clients/customers
Feedback from staff or managers you don’t know how to address
Performative DEI that looks like photo opps
Annual performance evaluations that are reinforcing isms and are offered without any training or education
Employees who feel they are just fighting fires left and right
Employee burnout
Company values that haven’t been looked at or tended to in the last 10 years
A culture within the organization without room for error or mistakes
Lack of meaningful employee recognition
Expectations continually not being met
Persistent communication issues
Society of Human Resource Management reports that bad work cultures cost American businesses 223 billion over the last five years. So these symptoms are worth treating! My job as a consultant is to support your organization in making holistic and ongoing shifts that help priorize human wellbeing in the work place.
Yes, prioritizing human well being is shown to motivate people to stay at their organization and do their best work.The way I work with organizations is towards sustainable and ongoing implementation and changes. It’s not about showing up and flipping what’s happening on its head. It’s about slow and steady progress that meets your orgnaization where you are at and helps to prioritze movement towards a healthier workplace.
I begin with both an internal audit to better understand the systems you are working within and then like to get to know folks at every level through empathy interviews. From there, we build a plan to address concerns that are both found through those two pieces of intake data gathering and with research-based practices for supporting more holistic and on going change.
Contact me if you’d like to learn more!
