Promote Diversity with Education Sessions

There may be times when you need to bring in a facilitator to facilitate some kind of workshop or seminar with your employees to educate them on some topic to help them perform their jobs better. There are facilitators and groups that present gender diversity seminars and workshops which can help your employees develop a better understanding of gender awareness. There are also a variety of other seminars that deal with overall diversity and sensitivity training. These workshops may involve activities similar to what would be done at a leadership workshop or watching informative videos or simply reading and discussing different pieces of literature that were specifically written for these types of workshops. Educating your workforce will help bring everyone up to the same level of understanding. These workshops can take place during the work day or over a particular weekend. Most facilitators will travel to your place of work in order to work with your employees.

A way to promote gender diversity within your workplace and company is to promote diversity within your recruitment efforts. Establish yourself as an equal opportunity employer in order to attract a variety of different talented individuals from a variety of different backgrounds. Not only will you have a varied application pool to choose from which means you will have a better chance of securing and hiring in the best of the best, you will be creating a more colorful workforce. Publicize the diversity within your company by choosing your marketing strategy and promotional recruitment images very carefully. If your brochures and advertisements show white male workers, for example, then chances are you will only attract white male applicants. Use images that correctly portray your company's image to attract different applicants. Take advantage of informational sessions, newsletters, online ads, blogs and newspaper ads to reach out to the different people who are out there.

Companies usually do not have to make physical changes to their buildings and offices in order to promote and accommodate gender diversity but to accommodate an overall diversity within your company you should be prepared to make some slight modifications to help make things run smoother. If you hire individuals who are hard of hearing or deaf then be prepared to hire in ASL interpreters so your employees are able to communicate. If you hire individuals with physical disabilities then make sure that you can provide them with easy access in order to get into the building and use the facilities. This means making sure there are operating elevators for multilevel buildings and modified restrooms. For those who are visually impaired, make sure your signs have a Braille equivalent to help with everyday tasks and keep them safe. Regardless of an employee's disabilities or physical shortcomings, he or she can still provide you with an indispensable talent.