Inclusion Archives

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 [...]

Ashley Gray2023-07-31T16:01:26+00:00July 31, 2023|DEI, Diversity, Employee Engagement, Employee Experience, Employee Feedback, Equality, Featured Blog Post, Inclusion, Managers, Racism, Remote Work, Talmetrix, Uncategorized|

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 [...]

wpadmin2023-05-12T14:24:30+00:00May 12, 2023|Diversity, Employee Engagement, Employee Experience, Equality, IMPACT Survey, Inclusion, Racism, Talmetrix|

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 & [...]

Jason Ruebel2023-05-03T20:49:24+00:00December 13, 2021|Covid19, Culture, DEI, Diversity, Inclusion, Uncategorized|

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 [...]

Jason Ruebel2022-07-14T14:12:52+00:00July 15, 2021|DEI, Diversity, Equality, Inclusion|

What We Can Learn From Women Leaving the Workforce During the COVID-19 Pandemic

865,000 women left the U.S. workforce in September 2020.¹ This mass departure, or “she-cession” trend continued for months until May 2021 when, finally, gains were made to help reverse this trend. A part of the increases in employment for women are a result of the expanding opportunities being most often in fields, like hospitality, that tend to employ women more often. As companies continue to rebuild, it’s worth reviewing – what led to the she-cession and how can we make sure that more women continue to find fulfilling employment opportunities? What Women Want [...]

Jason Ruebel2022-07-14T14:13:35+00:00July 15, 2021|Covid19, Employee Engagement, 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 [...]

Jason Ruebel2022-07-14T14:15:50+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 [...]

Jason Ruebel2022-07-14T14:22:54+00:00January 28, 2021|DEI, Diversity, Employee Engagement, Employee Experience, Equality, Inclusion, 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 [...]

Jason Ruebel2022-07-14T14:24:36+00:00August 10, 2020|Diversity, Equality, Featured Blog Post, Inclusion, Talmetrix|