Creating an inclusive office environment often requires examples to be set and made.

Look for “cognitive” diversity, which is mixing people together with different thinking styles, habits and perspectives

Leading an inclusive office is about more than hiring individuals with diverse backgrounds, cultures, and lifestyles.

Although that is a great starting point, inclusion requires a little bit more effort from team leaders, so with 2020 approaching, why not make "Creating a more inclusive workplace" one of your business resolutions?

In today's article, we'll give you some guidance on how you can achieve that goal, so keep reading to enhance your leadership skills even further!

AIHR - Academy to Innovate HR Video (4:11 minutes)

What is D&I and how can it drive organizational success? We define Diversity&Inclusion and discuss how deploying it effectively can bring a positive impact to organizational performance.

Diversity and inclusion go hand in hand. After all, you can increase your diversity hiring efforts in order to reach your workforce diversity goals all you like, if you don’t have a culture that ensures everyone feels welcome, you might as well save yourself the trouble.

Your workplace is rich with diversity - a mix of races, ethnicities, genders, generations, and personality types. But diversity is not the same as inclusion. Leaders would be shocked to know the resources that go untapped and the ideas that go undiscovered simply because certain people are consistently excluded from the conversation.

Diversity and inclusion (D&I) are often used in tandem rather than as diversity vs inclusion. While this is understandable, and while one certainly is necessary in order to achieve the other, they’re two different concepts. In this article, we’ll look at diversity vs inclusion, the difference between the two, how D&I leads to organizational success and 7 examples of diversity and inclusion activities in the workplace. Here goes!

ESRC Social Video (4:24 minutes)

Research by Dr Victoria Lavis has shaped a new national equalities policy framework and new policies and guidance for the care and management of transgender offenders.

INSEAD Video (1:08 minutes)

“The real key to leading a diverse team is to build a common story that can bind that team together…It needs to be a thing everyone can identify with regardless of their diverse backgrounds.” Jennifer Petriglieri, Programme Director, Management Acceleration Programme

Fast Company Video (0:56 minutes)

Carla Harris, vice chairman and managing director at Morgan Stanley, discusses the importance of upper management creating an environment of diversity for the team.

Today, businesses have become more diverse than ever, with people from various backgrounds & cultures adding immense value to every organization. In fact, workplace diversity enables project managers to leverage new skills and methods to solve problems. It also improves creativity by fostering diverse points of view and ideas. According to a study by McKinsey & Co, companies with diversity are 35% more likely to perform better than the ones without. Here are 7 ways project managers can lead a diverse team effectively.