Creating a safe space for your team

Diverse hiring is not the end goal, it’s just the beginning.

Many companies, when they start embracing diversity and inclusion, tend to focus mostly on hiring. They ask: how can we increase our diversity? How can we create a pool of people from minority groups that we can look for hiring? And so on. Improving or balancing out ‘the numbers’ is a good start, but if your efforts stop right after hiring then it becomes just a symbolic effort, and you might fall into tokenism.

Tokenism: ‘the practice of doing something (such as hiring a person who belongs to a minority group) only to prevent criticism and give the appearance that people are being treated fairly.’

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