You’re the average of the five people you compare yourself to.
Did it ever occur to you that you’re comparing yourself to the wrong people?

Key Topics Covered in This Episode:

1. Why starting with borrowed benchmarks sets you up to fail.
2. How to tell if a benchmark is applicable to your setting.
3. How to choose benchmarks that inform decisions.

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Key Takeaways from This Episode:

1. Bad Benchmarks Start With Bad Comparisons
   • "A benchmark that reflects their priorities won’t help you track your progress."
2. Insight is more valuable than performance scores.
   • "What would we do differently if this number changed?"
3. Benchmarks must help you steer, not just score.
   • "If it doesn’t help you decide what to do next, it’s not useful."

Check out these resources:

• Progress You Can Prove – The new programme mentioned in the episode

Most DEI metrics are just a pantomime.
They’re not tracking things that matter.

Key Topics Covered in This Episode:

1. Why most DEI efforts fail before any work has begun

2. Why “quick wins” often become long-term liabilities

3. How to test your inclusion project before investing in delivery

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Key Takeaways from This Episode:

1. Outputs don’t prove progress: outcomes do.

   • "Training is not an outcome."

2. Specific problems demand specific solutions.

   • "You can track how many people turned up to an event. You can count how many policies you updated. You can show how many people completed a training course. And none of it may be relevant."

3. Focus on preventions instead of a cure.

   • "You’d be surprised how often I see strategies full of goals that sound good, but don’t translate into day-to-day actions."

Check out these resources:

• Business Case in a Box – A course that helps you build a business case your CFO can trust
• Progress You Can Prove – A course to help you track and show how your organisation is becoming more inclusive (coming soon)
• Evidence Based Inclusion System – A course to help you implement a repeatable, systematic process for inclusion (coming soon)

Every organisation has its problems.
But not all of them are worth solving.

Key Topics Covered in This Episode:

1. the 5 point feasibility test we use with our clients

2. How copying others’ inclusion strategies leads you off course

3. Our shortcut to reveal which workplace problems are fixable

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Key Takeaways from This Episode:

1. Solvable problems build inclusion

   • "A solvable inclusion problem isn’t something that feels important. It’s something that stands up to scrutiny. It passes what we call the Feasibility Filter: If a problem isn’t Clear, Connected, Commercial, Credible and Causal, it’s not ready to solve."

2. Business alignment isn’t optional; it’s essential.

   • "You don’t need a generic business case for diversity. You need your business case for diversity. What does your problem matter to your specific organisation? If the problem doesn’t link to the business, you’ve got no business talking about it."

3. Without cause, there’s no effect.

   • "If you can’t explain how the problem happens, you can’t fix it. A solvable problem needs a clear explanation of what causes it, when it shows up, and what it leads to if ignored. That’s where a logic model comes in. It maps the cause-and-effect chain that links daily experiences to measurable outcomes."

Check out these resources :

• • Business Case in a Box – A course that helps you build a business case your CFO can trust
  • Progress You Can Prove – A course to help you track and show how your organisation is becoming more inclusive (coming soon)
  • Evidence Based Inclusion System – A course to help you implement a repeatable, systematic process for inclusion (coming soon)