Why Your Employee Resource Group Needs To Create Quality Products To Promote Diversity

Have you ever thought about the quality of the products that you were creating in your resource group? 

Find out what you can do to be different.

 In todays show I discuss several things including:

  • Why you need to establish quality control, really quickly!
  • The reason your engagements may be too short
  • The essential training that you could be ignoring and much much more

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Here are some key takeaways from this episode:

You Need to Create Quality Products for Your Employee Resource Group

“What is it you produce? Who cares about them? Will they be missed if you stopped?”

Lengthen the Time Spent on Engagements to Develop Meaningful Relationships

“One off events or activities often feel like a flash in a pan, they grab attention and then go, but a series of events and activities in line with a particular strategy have got a better chance of creating change”

 The People Running Your Employee Resource Group Need Support Too

“The people responsible for running the resource group, they need support too, they need training, development and dare I say it, Resources, this doesn’t always have to be money, but time is essential”

Here are some resources so you can go deeper

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