How To Build A More Diverse Team

As organizations grapple with more complex decisions and an ever-increasing pace of change, building a workforce equipped with the skills and experience to thrive in this environment is critical.

Finding this depth and breadth of talent means building a diverse workforce that covers full spectrum of diversity, including age, ethnicity, gender, thinking styles, disabilities and sexual orientation.

This means leaders need to challenge their decision-making patterns.

It’s natural to want to work with people you like and find easy to work with, and when you’re building a team or forming work groups, you often seek out such people.

This is either done consciously or subconsciously. In the case of recruitment, for example, search criteria often specifically reference the desire to find a cultural fit.

Cultural fit can mean different things to different people.