How Inclusive Is Your Organization?

Springboard’s Organizational Assessment Consulting offers a strategic set of tools designed to help your organization take cross cultural leadership to the next level – where it becomes a competitive advantage that contributes to your company’s bottom-line. Cross cultural competence is the capacity to interact with, understand and leverage the multiplicity of perspectives held by persons of different genders, races, ethnicities, cultural histories.

Gauge your organization’s current structural and cultural attitudes toward women and people of cultural difference with Inclusiveness Assessment. By identifying potential internal obstacles, a clear pathway for development and success can be created for under-represented groups as they move through your organization.

Give your middle- and senior-level managers the tools they need to truly lead a multi-cultural team through the True-Up product set, an important risk management tool. By training your managers in cross-cultural leadership, your team will not only avoid the pitfalls that can derail a multi-cultural workforce, they will also have the potential of delivering better results to the bottom line.

Ready to build transparent and trusting team relationships in the context of a bottom-line driven organization? Corporate Intergroup Dialogue will show your team leaders AND team players how to enhance business productivity by working more effectively together as committed team members. Employees who understand, respect and enjoy the rich background and skill sets that each individual brings to the project and the workplace will ultimately enhance financial results. Leverage the cultural competency leadership of your employees and your management team.

Inclusiveness Assessment – The IA Toolkit
Using Six Sigma methodology and other analytical tools, Springboard provides your organization with an assessment of the climate for the mobility and success of women, people of color and people of cultural difference. A set of targeted recommendations for effective programs and actions is designed to fit your company’s culture, as well as strategic goals for maximizing individual and group performance. The IA Toolkit will take your organization beyond the traditional corporate diversity program.

True-Up
Building a competitive, culturally diverse business team in one of the most important and challenging aspects of success in today’s business environment. True-Up is designed to give middle- and senior-level managers the specific skill sets that can help them effectively lead multi-cultural teams to success. Seminars include: Teamwork in a Cross-Cultural Environment – Understanding How Your Leadership Style Impacts Team Performance – Collaborative Communication Using the Corporate ID Toolkit – Giving Honest and Authentic Feedback in a Multi-Cultural Setting.

Corporate Intergroup Dialogue – The Corporate ID Toolkit
Making diversity and inclusiveness work in a business context requires an understanding of the meaning and significance of individual and group differences. Intergroup Dialogue is a promising approach for taking a company’s diversity initiatives to the next level – beyond training for awareness and toward solving business problems; enhancing business productivity by building the cultural competency leadership of employees.

Researched by scholars at University of Michigan, University of Massachusetts and MIT, Springboard has translated theory into practice with Corporate ID, the dialogue process for business teams. Corporate ID is for companies who are bottom-line focused, and understand that their most important assets are not merely individuals, but teams of diverse individuals – who work well and productively together.

The Corporate ID process works to build bridges across different points of view, gender, culture, ethnicity, religion, class – resulting in professionals who can engage in difficult conversations, find value in each other’s perspectives and contributions, establish areas of common concern, and are willing to work together to achieve agreed-upon organizational goals.