Equity and Belonging

As public agencies in Washington continue working toward diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplaces, it’s a good time to stop and ask why belonging matters and how we can achieve it. This month, we look at one equity team’s approach to increasing belonging.

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Research & Resources

Do Your DE&I Efforts Consider Age, Class, and Lived Experience? (Harvard Business Review). "When companies collectively decide to broaden the perspectives on what diversity can mean, it’s easier to understand how different experiences can be considered as an important counterpart to “traditional” — or university or work-earned — knowledge.

How to Structure DEI Data to Honor Employees’ Lived Experience (Grads of Life). "Why quantitative DEI data isn’t enough, and why it’s critical to measure qualitative employee data to advance DEI goals and outcomes."

Are Your D&I Efforts Helping Employees Feel Like They Belong? (Harvard Business Review). "It is now clear that a colorblind approach does not effectively manage diversity in the workplace." 

This Productivity Killer is Draining Workplace Efficiency. Here's How to Fix It (Entrepreneur). "Forget Zoom fatigue. The problem is tool fatigue...Every time we toggle from one app to another, we're 'context-switching.'"

How to Gain Staff Consensus in Meetings (and Why It Matters) (ASCD). "Every school leader has witnessed an initiative that is doomed to fail or fizzle. Often, this is ... due to a lack of understanding of how power and authority function."