RECRUITMENT, HIRING AND RETENTION

• Ensure that applications for positions reach diverse populations. This includes making applications accessible and widely available? Share job postings in various affinity spaces and networks. 

• Ensure that staff have access to training and support that provide access to opportunities for advancement within the organization.

• Ensure the hiring team has bias training to address interview biases.

WORKPLACE/EMPLOYEE POLICIES

• Review mission, vision and values to ensure continuity across policies. 

• Solicit feedback from the staff on policies that impact their work.

• Periodically review policies to ensure that real time practices align with cultural norms. Often our organizational  practices change at a faster rate than our written policies. Schedule time to review policies and practices.

SHARED VOICE, SHARED POWER

• Always share decision making steps with your organization. Be sure to explain the rationale or “the why” when new policies are created.

• Solicit feedback from all staff in the organization. 

• Allow staff to react to and offer feedback prior to the creation of new policies.

TRAINING & PERFORMANCE REVIEW

• Ensure performance review process is shared broadly and well in advance of the start of reviews.

• Ensure performance review criteria reflects mission, vision and values of your organization. 

• Ensure performance review criteria don’t perpetuate The Tenets of White Supremacy.

• Ensure that training dates and times are considerate of staff’s various needs. Ascertain that staff are available for training, advertise if training is paid or unpaid and honor the schedule that you create. Ensure training times don’t have major time conflicts.