Why is diversity training important?

• Unconscious bias training

This is meant to help employees understand their implicit and unconscious biases towards certain groups of people. It focuses on developing actions and behavioral shifts to address and ideally mitigate or completely remove those implicit preconceptions.

• Allyship training

Allyship training's focus is to enable those in positions of privilege or power to support or amplify the concerns or needs of an employee or group of employees that come from a minority group or historically marginalized community. Like its name suggests it helps individuals in powerful roles become allies to those in need in the workplace.

• Bystander communication training

This form of DEI training instructs employees on how to speak up when they witness another employee being discriminated against or if they see that the coworker is being harassed in any way.

• Specific training on hiring practices

This type of training involves human resource departments, hiring managers, recruiters, and any other employees that take part in an organization's hiring process. The primary goal is to educate these professionals on how their implicit or inherent biases might adversely affect how they interact with specific groups of people during the hiring process.