Unlocking the Power of Data: A Comprehensive Approach to Improving Employee Engagement, DEIB, Retention, and Wellbeing

Unlocking the Power of Data: A Comprehensive Approach to Improving Employee Engagement, DEIB, Retention, and Wellbeing Descriptive analysis is a type of analysis that focuses on summarizing and describing data. It involves analyzing data to identify patterns, trends, and relationships among variables. In the context of employee engagement, retention, and wellbeing, descriptive analysis can be used to understand the current state of employee engagement, retention, and wellbeing within an organization. It can provide insight into factors that influence employee engagement, retention, and wellbeing, and help identify areas for improvement. To support a comprehensive people insights measurement strategy, it's important to [...]

Diversity in the Workplace

Our work plays a vital role in creating and maintaining inclusive and diverse organizations, and we also believe that diversity and inclusion goes far beyond just hiring a diverse workforce. It requires promoting an environment where all employees feel valued, respected, heard, and included. By doing so, we can create further cultures of belonging where everyone is represented in organizational decisions and equity is universal. A diverse and inclusive workplace has been proven to be more productive, innovative, and profitable. In this article, we’ll explain why diversity is important and provide actionable recommendations that companies can take to further [...]

What to Do About Your Black Employees Not Wanting to Return to the Office

As explored in a recent article, only 3% of Black knowledge workers want to return to working in the office. Some of the reasons included microaggressions, less of a feeling of belonging and lack of recovery and processing time for systemic issues. Though there are a myriad of reasons why employees would prefer to choose to work from home, companies will need to find ways to address these issues for a successful transition back to the routine of working in the office.  Let’s first take a look at what’s important to Black employees as demonstrated in our Diversity & [...]

2023-05-03T20:49:24+00:00December 13, 2021|Covid19, Culture, DEI, Diversity, Inclusion, Uncategorized|

3 Reasons Why Your Black Employees Don’t Want to Return to the Office

Despite the recent rise in COVID-19 cases due to the Delta variant, millions of American workers have been returning to working in the office this summer. And, still more are headed back to the office this fall and winter.  It’s an understatement to say there are mixed feelings about returning to the traditional routine of commuting to and working in the office on a daily basis. Indeed, there are a number of employees with negative perceptions of doing so. However, there’s one group with such low opinion around working in the office – Black employees. The Future Forum ran [...]

Top Five Tips to More Effectively Embed Diversity, Equity & Inclusion into Your Organizational Culture

If culture could be represented as the fabric of an organization, then diversity, equity and inclusion is an essential thread that helps create that fabric. Many organizations are grappling with how to create an inclusive and equitable environment in order to retain employees and engage them to do their best work. That effort cannot succeed unless the organization’s culture reflects and supports it. “Culture” Defined An iceberg analogy¹ is a great way to describe organizational culture — it’s hard to see, measure and define, but determines how employees navigate. Specifically, culture is a set of assumptions that guide [...]

2022-07-14T14:12:52+00:00July 15, 2021|DEI, Diversity, Equality, Inclusion|

Let’s Make the Most of this Moment: What Diversity Means Now

by Chris Powell, CEO, Talmetrix  The COVID-19 pandemic was an accelerant to change. Remote work, virtual teams, a pause on business travel. The adjustments we made led us to reconsider the “old” ways of doing things: Did we really have to travel that much? Could our teams actually be more productive remotely? And we got an unusually intimate look into each other’s lives on Zoom -- kids and pets in the background, clothes hanging off the elliptical, makeshift home offices. It’s going to take time to digest what happened - individually and collectively. And to consider how we want to [...]

2022-07-14T14:15:50+00:00March 29, 2021|Covid19, DEI, Diversity, Employee Experience, Equality, Inclusion|

The Learner’s Group and Talmetrix announce strategic partnership

PRESS RELEASE Chicago, Il – February 4, 2021 – The Learner’s Group (TLG) and Talmetrix are pleased to announce they have entered into a strategic partnership, combining The Learner’s Group’s solutions-based consulting services with Talmetrix’s ability to humanize talent data to provide actionable metrics that organizations can use to increase employee engagement. This partnership comes at an opportune time when data collection and analysis are crucial elements to every company’s success. The TLG- Talmetrix partnership unites several complementary skill sets. Talmetrix excels at humanizing talent data, while TLG has a proven record of personalizing and customizing culture enhancing deliverables. The [...]

The Diversity X-Factor: Managers

Leaders are making commitments to diversity. But, it’s managers’ actions that matter more than you may realize.   2020 has been a year of defining events that became worldwide shared experiences. While we collectively grappled with the COVID-19 pandemic and living within a patchwork of governmental advisories and work from home arrangements, we witnessed appalling injustices, including George Floyd’s tragic death. Those events sparked national protests which raised awareness of racial injustices. As protestors flooded the streets demanding civic and social changes to equalize Black Lives, many companies joined the chorus for justice by making public commitments to diversity, adding [...]

2022-07-14T14:24:18+00:00August 12, 2020|Diversity, Employee Experience, Managers, Racism, Talmetrix|

Insights That Matter: Inclusion & Equality Index

Inclusion and equality are top-of-mind for many these days, especially inclusion and equality at work. Talmetrix prides itself on considering diversity and inclusion in everything we do - research, solutions advisory, and product development. We aren't perfect, but strive to be a model and partner for our clients, which is why we’ve included the Inclusion and Equality Index (IEI for short) into our solutions playbook. When researching equity, inclusion, and equality in the workplace, we found that these concepts are woven into all employee experiences and aren’t stand-alone concepts - when you think about it, it makes a lot of [...]

2022-07-14T14:24:36+00:00August 10, 2020|Diversity, Equality, Featured Blog Post, Inclusion, Talmetrix|

It’s Time to LISTEN & LEAD

A message from Chris Powell, CEO of Talmetrix  It’s Time to LISTEN & LEAD! I wasn’t always just black. I used to be just a kid...you know a human being.I was 7 years old and landed the lead role as the frog in the spring school play. My entire family was excited, including my grandmother who made my costume, and my mother who taught 6th grade at the same school that was 95% white. The play was a success. A few days later, some of the older students commented to me that they had never seen a black frog before [...]

2022-07-14T14:24:58+00:00July 16, 2020|Covid19, Diversity, Racism, Talmetrix|
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