Firstly, organizations developing a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) program aren’t sure how to begin. What will be the vision of this program? What policies and procedures need to be reviewed and changed and what new ones need to be implemented?
Further, most business leaders are still figuring out how to engrain DE&I practices so that it becomes an inherent part of the company’s work and culture. Achieving inclusivity isn’t a one-time effort – it requires companies to adapt multiple new HR-related processes throughout the organization.
Business leaders should install a multipronged strategy to kickstart and support the evolution of their workforce and workplace. Leveraging existing technology to assist in this ongoing effort makes sense.
Tech-driven DE&I tools can help businesses revitalize their hiring process, train their staff on recognizing biases and avoiding them and tracking the company’s advancement towards its diversity goals.
Let’s look at the top tools businesses can use to power their DE&I initiatives.
1. Joonko
Joonko is an AI-powered diversity recruiting tool that helps companies meet their DE&I hiring goals. The automated tool connects the firm’s applicant tracking system (ATS) to a shared candidate pool of silver medalist talent (candidates who have passed two or more stages in the recruiting process by other companies) from underrepresented sectors. Thus, the platform is improving workplace diversity by allowing hiring teams to source pre-qualified talent from diverse backgrounds.
Joonko’s pool comprises women, people of color and service veterans who are actively seeking new opportunities. Thus, hiring managers spend less time sourcing underrepresented talent, an issue that is frequently brought up as an obstacle.
By investing in Joonko you can maintain an automated flow of silver medalist candidates from underrepresented sectors.
What’s more, the platform allows firms to share company-branded messaging through the candidate outreach process. Companies can also leverage a dedicated mini-website and Joonko’s actionable reports for tracking their diversity recruiting efforts.
2. Allie
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Allie is a Slack bot for promoting diversity and inclusion at workplaces. The chatbot integrates with Slack and sends out DE&I surveys to assess employees’ take on the company’s culture and inclusiveness.
Its feedback feature has categories like ‘exclusions’ and ‘stereotypes.’ These features allow employees to share suggestions on how to improve company culture.
Allie also allows companies to train teams on diversity through curated content and interactive training modules and quizzes.
3. Blendoor
Blendoor is a DE&I rating and analytics platform that lets companies know how they compare with other firms spearheading diversity initiatives.
Their BlendScore rating is the standard for corporate DE&I and is trusted by diversity executives and corporate boards globally. This score eliminates the guesswork by accurately spotting diversity gaps in workplaces based on government data and industry benchmarks. Hence, businesses aiming to supersede their diversity objectives should use Blendoor to align business strategies with core values of equity and diversity.
4. Diversio's Bias Corrector
Diversio is an AI-based diversity and inclusion analytics platform that measures, tracks and improves diversity and inclusion initiatives across companies.
Diversio’s Bias Corrector is a feature that plugs into a company’s communication platform to analyze team dynamics and spot cultural challenges. It also helps teams overcome their unconscious biases, thus improving everyday interactions.
Similarly, it has another feature, ‘Social Media Barometer’, that tracks company mentions on various social channels to assess the DE&I sentiment in your organization.
5. TrustSphere
TrustSphere helps organizations analyze their real-time communication to procure valuable insights into team, client, stakeholders and supplier relationships. The tool ingests this communication log data from corporate communication platforms and collaboration systems, analyzes it and produces output in the form of actionable insights.
These insights help organizations to plan smarter DE&I strategies and uphold organizational diversity.
6. OurOffice
OurOffice is Diversity and Inclusion as a Service (DIaaS) that helps in building an inclusive workplace culture in organizations of varying sizes. It is a cost-effective and end-to-end DE&I solution that:
- Offers management tools to plan and track the progress of DE&I initiatives
- Fosters employee engagement in a work environment that’s inclusive and fair
- Provides expert guidance to facilitate a firm’s DE&I journey
This turnkey solution uses the OurOffice DEI maturity model, their employee experience survey and 50 pre-defined KPIs to help firms determine diversity gaps. The tool also tracks DE&I KPIs and employee engagement to offer real-time insights and drive inclusive behavior.
7. Balloonr
Balloonr is a SaaS platform that’s specifically designed to allow employees to anonymously share ideas and respond to ideas shared by others. This hugely prevents bias in the workplace, allowing valid and innovative ideas and suggestions to evolve.
The platform invites people to ask questions and initiate conversations on organization-wide issues.
8. Gapsquare
Gapsquare is a pay analytics software that helps businesses analyze and monitor pay disparity statistics and produce instant reports.
It offers valuable insights for closing the pay gaps, achieving fair pay and embracing diverse talent ecosystems. The tool helps the HR team understand and correct pay inequity across gender, ethnicity/race, disability and more.
The platform helps firms achieve diverse employee representation by helping companies see the representation gaps in various areas of the business.
9. Pluto
Pluto is workplace analytics and communication tool that helps organizations build a diverse and equitable workplace. The information and communication platform equips firms with the tools needed to uphold a firm’s diversity and inclusion goals.
Pluto offers advanced privacy controls, confidential two-way messaging, DE&I and anti-racism stories, inclusive analytics and other features that foster a safe and inclusive workplace. It takes a thoughtful approach towards data collection, enabling firms to locate the blindspots and take necessary steps to achieve their DE&I goals
10. Otter.ai
Otter.ai is powered by artificial intelligence that can record and transcribe a team conversation. This tool works great for team members who are hard of hearing or find it tough to follow quick conversations on calls, due to ADHD or other cognitive disorders.
These employees can record all workplace conversations using Otter.ai and play it back later for taking notes and necessary action, or have the entire conversation transcribed, allowing employees who have hearing difficulties keep up with ongoing activities.
Summing up
Over the past decade, DE&I has become imperative to business success. With the increased attention it is attracting from media, social channels and HR leaders, recognizing diversity and inclusion at workplaces is critical.
If your organization is planning to rev up its DE&I initiatives, the tools shared in this post will help. Take advantage of these tools to recognize bias at your workplace and curb it to attract and retain quality talent.
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Lucy Manole
Lucy Manole is a creative content writer and strategist at Marketing Digest. She specializes in writing about digital marketing, technology, entrepreneurship, and education. When she's not writing or editing, she spends time reading books, cooking and traveling.
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