5 Ways Behavioral Assessments Help Build Diverse Teams and Reduce Bias

October is Global Diversity Awareness Month. A diverse team of people can have a positive impact on workplace productivity and organizational culture. According to Boston Consulting Group, management teams with above-average diversity reported earning nearly half of their revenue from innovative products and services—nearly 20 percentage points more than companies with below-average diversity on their management teams (source). 

AND Inclusive teams make better decisions up to 87% of the time (source).

Here are 5 ways that assessments can help you start building more diverse teams right away!

Research on Diversity Impact:

Our content partners at Business Psych Bulletin have summarized key research on psychology in the workplace. Here is a look at their articles on diversity research:

• Leading Diversity: Towards a Theory of Functional Leadership in Diverse Teams
• Personality, Creativity, & Unconscious Bias in Gender
• It Matters How Old We Feel in Organizations: Testing a multilevel model of organizational subjective-age diversity on employee outcomes 

Resources to Support Building a Diverse Workplace:

• Using the WVA to Build a Strong Work Culture (article) - Our Work Values and Attitude assessment can help you hire and develop workers who strengthen your organizational culture.
• 7 Ways TalentClick Reports Support Managers throughout the Employee Lifecycle (infographic) - Creating a diverse culture doesn’t stop with hiring. Support your managers to personalize their approach with employees throughout their time at your organization.

“Our Co-founder, Stephen Race, Chief Product Officer and MSc in Occupational Psychology, has been working with a leading Medical Institution. In this year’s round of hiring new surgical residents, the institution used TalentClick assessments in their hiring process and highlighted that this year's new residents were the most diverse group they’ve hired.  The finalists in the selection process included more females and racial/ethnic minorities than in any previous year.”

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