Setting the Tone: HR Diversity Training for New Hires

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Establishing a diverse and inclusive workplace is critical to allowing all your employees to thrive in their roles! As the workforce embraces more people from varied cultures and backgrounds, it’s important to make sure everyone feels welcomed and valued. A great way to establish a spirit of inclusivity from the get-go is to make DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusivity) training mandatory for your company’s onboarding.

Our expert team of consultants at Pivot HR can help you implement a series of workshops and training programs that will display the importance of diversity to new hires from day one. Keep reading to learn more about the value of HR diversity training!

Why Diversity Training for New Hires is Crucial

Everyone deserves to feel seen, heard, and appreciated in the workplace and should feel free to embrace their individuality. The younger generation entering the workforce is coming in with a better understanding of diversity, as with the advent of social media, we’re continually more exposed to varied cultural, social, and ethnic backgrounds.

Still, many individuals may harbour unconscious bias or be unaware of certain speech and behaviours that can cause unintentional offence to their coworkers. This is where updated diversity and inclusion training can be beneficial. A couple of advantages include:

  • An immediate impact on company culture: When new staff join your organization, your training modules should help them clearly understand your company’s culture, principles, and standards. Including your stance on DEI in the onboarding process will immediately set the tone for new hires and give you better insight into their willingness to embrace your company values.

By implementing diversity training into your onboarding, you’ll set an expectation in your company that all employees work together, are open-minded, and embrace their differences!

Key Components of Diversity Training

When developing the DEI portion of your onboarding program, there are a few key areas you’ll want to cover to provide your employees with diversity education that leaves an impact. These areas include:

  • Defining core concepts: discussing the ideas of diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and acceptance and how they’re significant to coworker interactions
  • Addressing unconscious bias: breaking down how social and cultural stereotypes can cause people to make quick judgements of others and why this behaviour is harmful
  • Cultural competency: methods and exercises for your staff to embrace each other’s differences and interact comfortably despite culture, religion, race, or background
  • Inclusive communication skills: embracing differences in beliefs and perspectives through active listening, respectful speech, and showing empathy
  • Legality: understanding the legal ramifications of disrespectful treatment towards others based on their diverse background and how their rights are protected in the workplace

How Pivot HR Implements Diversity Training

At Pivot HR, we aim to create a safe environment for all employees, regardless of their beliefs, backgrounds, or lifestyles. By partnering with our team of experienced consultants and advisors, we can assist you in:

  • Smoothly integrating new employees into your existing staff
  • Creating positive team dynamics and employee engagement
  • Maintaining high employee retention and job satisfaction for your staff members
  • Gaining a positive reputation as a company that embraces diversity and inclusion

Our team will assess your needs, evaluating what works in your company for DEI and what can be improved. From there, we’ll work with you to build a custom HR diversity training program, review and update your current DEI policies, and foster allyship amongst you and your staff!

Embrace Diversity in the Workplace with Pivot HR

Pivot HR provides diversity and inclusion training in Vancouver, Toronto, and Santa Barbara, California. If you’re looking for ways to embrace diversity in your workplace, we’re here to help! To learn more about our program, visit the Diversity and Inclusion section under our Services page.

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