Step 1: Laying the Internal Foundation
- Step up your diversity efforts with an inclusiveness initiative
- Help leaders change the status quo
- Learn practical ways to engage white men
- Discover the strategic considerations in forming an inclusiveness committee as opposed to a traditional diversity committee
- Identify ways to avoid apathy and inertia, which can kill any initiative before it begin
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Step 2: Creating an External Support System
- Find external partners who can provide compelling accountability
- Expand your resources and knowledge with consultants and trainers
- Strengthen ties to outside organizations
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Step 3: Integrating Inclusiveness Within Your Organization
- Know why diversity and inclusiveness are important
- Examine your organizational culture
- Learn why attrition rates for diverse attorneys higher
- Identify ways hidden barriers operate to marginalize diverse attorneys
- Create methods to remove those hidden barriers
- Understand what training will work
- Start diversity dialogues
- Combat diversity fatigue
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Step 4: Integrating Inclusiveness into External Relationships
- Learn how your organization should present itself with respect to diversity and inclusiveness on the web and with clients
- Integrate inclusiveness into your organization’s marketing, recruiting, hiring, and community involvement
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Step 5: Implementation
- Learn how to create an effective inclusiveness action plan for your organization
- Implement accountability measures that will sustain the initiative
- Measure the success of the goals you set
- Evaluate progress against the AIM for Excellence benchmarks
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Step 6: Collective Effort and Success: The Inclusiveness Network
- Shorten your learning curve by following the examples of legal organizations engaged in inclusiveness initiatives (preview case studies here)
- Join with others engaged in this work to share experiences – challenges as well as successes
- Inclusive Excellence in Law Schools
- Law schools are workplaces that can become more inclusive. Inclusiveness should be embedded in curriculum, admissions, alumni relations, clinical programs, faculty, career development, and student programming to advance learning.
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