Opt for Inclusion™ measures the competencies required of a leader or contributor to create an inclusive workplace. It examines how an individual’s beliefs, values and biases affect the manner in which each individual completes his/her daily work and interacts with others.

Benefits

Opt for Inclusion™ provides individuals and their organizations with powerful feedback and pragmatic information that is clearly relevant to their workplace realities. It also generates targeted strategies and actions for increasing inclusion.  

Description

Opt for Inclusion™ examines three dimensions important to organizations who want to build a more diverse and inclusive workplace:

  • Cultural Competence
  • Diversity Competence
  • Inclusive Leadership Competence

Process

Graybridge Malkam begins the Opt for Inclusion™ process by meeting with you to develop a tailored version of the assessment that is best suited to your needs. The following steps depict a typical process:

  1. Primary focus for the assessment:

    We review your context and recommend a clear focus, eliminating or reducing those assessment areas that are not critical to your organization.

  2. Depth vs. breadth of assessment:

    With a given number of questions, we balance sufficient breadth of coverage (i.e. number of dimensions assessed) with sufficient depth of assessment (i.e. number of questions for each dimension) to provide reliable and useful results.

  3. Speaking your language:

    We will align the questions with your organization’s diversity and inclusion definitions, concepts and competencies. Consistency of messaging and terminology is an important success factor in using assessment results as a foundation for individual and organizational learning and development.

  4. The assessment:

    Selected candidates complete the assessment via our secure web environment[A1] . Data is compiled and scores are interpreted.

  5. Final report:

    You receive our final report that includes an executive summary, an overview of the assessment process, summary findings and recommendations at the organizational or departmental level.

  6. Debrief Session (optional):

    Graybridge Malkam can provide a debriefing session where we will review and explore individual and/or organizational strengths and gaps.

Your organization may want to follow-up the assessment with customized individual coaching and/or group training.

Who will benefit from Opt for Inclusion™

All personnel in your organization, from frontline staff to executives.