Women's Affinity Alliance Resource Repository
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ERG Plan and Budget
Source: Kate Venne, Director of Corporate Communications, Brady Corporation
Type: Professional resource (meant for use in Excel)
Self-care for professionals
Source: REACHOUT.com
Type: Professional resources
Summary: As a professional, you need to practice self-care in all aspects of your life so you can perform at your best when working with young people. A good place to start is with assessing where you’re at and then making a plan to improve your self-care. Complete the self-care assessment to find out how you're managing your self-care at the moment.
Women and Leadership Affinity Group (WLAG) Charter
Source: International Leadership Association
Summary: The Women and Leadership Affinity Group is an initiative of the International Leadership Association. Its focus is advancing female researchers, coaches, educators and practitioners interested in generating resources, disseminating research, and fostering the development of women leaders. The WLAG Charter is available to the public.
Employee Resource Groups: A Strategic Business Resource for Today's Business
Source: BC Center for Work & Family
Type: Presentation
Summary: ERGs have long been a safe space in which underrepresented groups of diverse employees could find support and networking, but some deliver additional business value more effectively than others. In this presentation, learn best practices and solutions to the most common challenges ERG leaders face.
Guidance For Development Effective Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
Source: NASA
Type: Guide
Summary: This document derives from NASA’s Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Strategic Implementation Plan. It is designed with two main purposes: 1) to provide supervisors, managers, project leads, and other employees with general information on establishing and sustaining effective ERGs; and 2) to help increase the utilization of ERGs Agency‐wide, because research shows that they can help engage employees and consequently increase both individual and organizational success.
Work Life Integration & Setting Boundaries
Source: Becky Frankiewicz, President - North America, ManpowerGroup
Type: Presentation
Summary: This presentation was given by Becky Frankiewicz at the Nov. 8, 2017 Women's Affinity Alliance program hosted by Direct Supply.
Personal Boundaries Quiz
Source: Sagebrush Consulting
Type: Quiz
Summary: Read each statement and check the one’s that are true for you. Be sure to answer honestly and without judgment. This quiz is to help you decide if you need to make changes in your current boundary setting, not to be an exercise in self-criticism. Totaling the number of checks in each category will help you determine what type of personal boundaries you're currently setting.
The Gender Gap - Why Men & Women Experience Work Differently
Source: AON
Type: White Paper
Summary: In this white paper, we explore why men and women experience work differently. Additionally, we highlight the key differences in engagement drivers between men and women, possible reasons for those differences, and offer strategies organizations can use to eliminate them. By understanding and responding to these differences, companies can take a greater step towards not only enabling gender diversity, but maximizing the potential of all of their employees.
Rockwell Automation Culture of Inclusion Journey
Source: Rockwell Automation
Type: Presentation
Summary: Presentation given to the Women's Affinity Alliance on May 17, 2017 by Michele Mathai, Director, Culture of Inclusion. In 2017, Rockwell Automation was the recipient of the prestigious Catalyst Award in recognition of the transformation and results of their Culture of Inclusion journey since 2008.
The 7 Step Guide to Mastering Change
Source: Bader Rutter
Type: Guide
Summary: Businesses used to talk about their “busy season” or wait to make strategic shifts until “we get through this.” Today, the ubiquity of change brings instability to every season. Here, Bader Rutter outlines seven steps to not just “get through” change, but to master it and lead your business and your customers. Test your change muscles today.
The Diversity of Thought Assessment
Source: Glenn Llopis Group
Type: Quiz
Summary: This assessment measures your ability to be open-minded enough to think differently in your quest to achieve workplace and career goals through different pathways and approaches.
Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
Type: Non-Fiction Book by Spencer Johnson
Summary: This book describes change in one's work and life, and four typical reactions to those changes by two mice and two "little people," during their hunt for cheese. A New York Times business bestseller upon release, Who Moved My Cheese? remained on the list for almost five years and spent over 200 weeks on Publishers Weekly's hardcover nonfiction list. It has sold more than 26 million copies worldwide in 37 languages and remains one of the best-selling business books.
Moving the Needle - 2020 Research Report
Source: Milwaukee Women inc
Type: Annual research report
Summary: Professional women's group Milwaukee Women inc. conducts annual research to raise awareness of the lack of diversity on corporate boards in an effort to promote change. '
Modern Guide to Equality
Source: The Female Quotient (TFQ) in collaboration with Atlantic Media Strategies and Catalyst
Type: Guide
Summary: Combining generational insights, workplace trends and interviews with industry leaders, the Modern Guide to Equality is a toolkit with next-step actions to accelerate gender equality in the workplace.
Seven Steps to Conscious Inclusion [Whitepaper]
Seven Steps to Conscious Inclusion [Presentation by Chris Rowland, Global Diversity Officer, Manpower Group]
Source: Manpower Group
Summary: This report presents seven practical steps - real steps for real people working in businesses around the world - to reach the tipping point where women will accelerate into leadership roles, faster.Women in the Workplace 2020
Source: McKinsey Global Institute
Type: Research Study
Summary: A comprehensive study of the state of women in corporate America, giving companies the information they need to promote female leadership and foster gender equality in the workplace.
Unconscious Bias Tests
Source: Project Implicit
Type: Implicit-Association Test (IAT)
Summary: A series of IATs allow users to educate themselves about implicit biases (e.g. skin tone, race, weapons). The IAT is a measure within social psychology designed to detect the strength of a person's automatic association between mental representations of objects (concepts) in memory.
2020 Global Gender Gap report
Source: World Economic Forum
Type: Report/Website
Summary: The Global Gender Gap Index 2020 ranks 145 economies according to how well they are leveraging their female talent pool, based on economic, educational, health-based and political indicators. With a decade of data, this edition of the Global Gender Gap Report – first published in 2006 – shows that gender parity will not be attained for 99.5 years.
Exploring Unconscious Bias
Sources: Diversity Best Practices, and Cook Ross, Inc.
Type: Research Report
Summary: Proven strategies for addressing unconscious bias in the workplace. Topics include "Seven steps to identify and address unconscious bias," and "Top 10 ways to combat hidden bias." View a list of unconscious bias information collected by Johnson Controls here.
Accelerating progress in gender equity from the inside out
Source: EY
Type: Brochure
Summary: This resource outlines one aspect of EY's diversity and inclusion roadmap - achieving gender equity. Because gender equity drives better business results, EY focuses on 1) building an inclusive culture 2) illuminating the path to leadership, and 3) enabling a flexible work environment.
FAIRYGODBOSS.com
Type: Website, Online Community
Summary: FAIRYGODBOSS houses a database enabling women to write anonymous reviews of their employers, sharing information about their company's maternity-leave policy, work-life balance, etc. The website also hosts a blog, maternity leave resources, statistics, state laws and more.
The Complexity of Diversity
Source: ForbesType: Blog SeriesSummary: The Complexity of Diversity shares best practices and success stories based on real-world experiences; reviewing research findings and new offerings that promise to improve diversity; bringing exclusive insights from practitioners; discussing key concepts such as emergence and tipping points, providing concrete examples of how they apply to diversity; and in all cases showing how these concepts, techniques and applications help take advantage of the opportunity that diversity can bring to the workplace.
Take The Lead This Week
Type: Weekly e-newsletter
Summary: TAKE THE LEAD THIS WEEK is a weekly source of news, advice, and inspiration to advance women’s leadership. Every Tuesday, the e-newsletter provides a roundup of headlines about women in the workplace and picks of the web’s best articles to help women advance their careers.
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