Shawn Matossian, Senior Lead of Talent Acquisition at Dine Brands Global and Ph.D. candidate speaks with Building Culture about recruiting with belonging in mind and how to actually measure the success of DEI initiatives in hiring. We also cover what we can do to avoid discrimination during the screening process, and what good representation should look like in an organization.

Belonging is top of mind for organizations everywhere. We invite Mercedes Ballard and Kristin Bonds, co-founders of Heristic, to this episode of Building Culture to share how to define belonging, practice it at work, and distinguish how it’s different from inclusion.

Resources:

• Deloitte: “Belonging: From comfort to connection to contribution”
• HBR: “What Does It Take to Build a Culture of Belonging?”
• Culture Amp, "6 Ways to Foster Belonging in the Workplace"
• FutureForum, "A new era of workplace inclusion: moving from retrofit to redesign"
• Silicon Valley Business Journal, "Just 3% of Black professionals want to return to the office full-time, post-COVID"

Resources:

• Accountability is key to enabling diversity and inclusion in organizations (Chief Learning Officer)
• The real meaning of accountability in the workplace (Range)
• Inclusion Without Clear Lines of Accountability Is Pointless. Here’s Why. (Forbes)

Learn more about Brave Trainings Consulting and Headspace here.

Resources:

• https://builtin.com/diversity-inclusion/unconscious-bias-examples
• https://hbr.org/2020/07/when-and-how-to-respond-to-microaggressions
• https://www.ted.com/talks/verna_myers_how_to_overcome_our_biases_walk_boldly_toward_them?language=en 

Join Evelyn and Eileen as they discuss the shift in remote work in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. What are the biggest challenges to staying remote and what are the solutions? And how is the PERKS team moving forward?

Resources:

Ebook: A Simple Guide to Building Company Culture (Remote Work Edition) 

Book: Working from Home: Making the New Normal Work for You by Karen Mangia