Culture: The #1 Differentiator for Attracting and Retaining Top Talent
Training overview
Workplace culture has been identified as one of the driving factors behind today’s Great Resignation. As more employees design their lives to best suit them and choose workplaces accordingly, they seek to devote their efforts to companies that have a culture of belonging. The secret to building inclusive culture, according to Ruchika T. Malhotra, bestselling author of the award-winning “Inclusion on Purpose: An Intersectional Approach to Creating a Culture of Belonging at Work” (2022), is understanding the intersection of race and gender and how it impacts people in the workplace. Her refreshing frameworks for developing inclusive workplace culture offer recommendations for small interventions, such as suggesting language shifts when hiring or structured feedback sessions that deliver an outsized impact to employees who feel unseen. In this presentation, she offers a breath of fresh air for anyone looking to escape tired, ineffective programs and move to a fully inclusive system with diversity built in. “Leaders have to continue to focus on culture because employees have a choice now,” Malhotra emphasizes. “People aren’t going to stand for working in an environment where the culture isn’t right for them, and it’s up to us to create the environment of tomorrow, today.”
Key takeaways
Understand how inclusive workplace cultures attract engage and retain top talent in an environment where employees have more choice than ever.
Learn practical high-impact ways to embed inclusion into everyday systems through hiring practices language choices feedback structures and leadership behaviors.
Explore how race gender and overlapping identities shape employee experiences and how leaders can create environments where people feel seen valued and able to thrive.
