Kathrin Weichel
Expert D&I Consulting
- Hays AG
- Ericusspitze 2-4
- 20457 Hamburg
With diversity management, you will create the perfect basis for making your company ready for the future, and not only attract specialists that are hard to get, but also bind them to your company over the long term.
The Federal Employment Agency also makes it clear that the intensive incorporation of women, people with a migration background and best agers/silver agers increases the number of potential skilled workers by up to four million and attracts additional qualified applicants.
Would you like to have more innovative strength, be more competitive? Accenture's Gender Equality Research Report shows that the willingness and ability for innovation increases in companies with an open, diverse and respectful organizational culture.
But what action is required to do this? How well are you currently positioned? And which diversity management measures will actually lead to more diversity within your company?
We would be happy to support you with our diversity consulting to make your company diverse, opportunity-oriented and inclusive and thus fit for the future.
why diversity consulting is worth your while
Companies which opt for diversity management benefit in several ways. Because companies and organizations that want to remain attractive, innovative and competitive need a diverse team with diverse experiences and perspectives. This is the only way to succeed in the long term in the competition for talent.
The complex challenges of our time can no longer be solved in our own information bubble. Companies who always recruit from the same pool will lose out in the competition for the best talent.
And for your company, diversity management means:
Diversity recruiting is an effective tool in times of skilled worker shortages.
It reinforces employee loyalty and your personnel marketing. Because diversity attracts diversity.
Greater innovative strength and more profitability, and therefore greater competitiveness.
Cultural diversity helps to open up new markets and address customers and delivery companies in a more differentiated way..
Higher quality decisions, due to different perspectives and competencies that flow into the solution process.
Diversity Consulting – our service for more Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) in companies
As a leading personnel consultancy, we always have a finger on the pulse of the times, and support you with our know-how not only to find the right specialists for your company, but also to position yourself in a contemporary and, above all, future-proof manner. Be it status quo analyses, strategy workshops or a diversity recruiting pulse check: Together we will develop the diversity management measures for your company in various formats:
Where is your company currently at in terms of diversity? What are your main challenges, and which approaches are you already using?
With our diversity analysis, we will produce a precise inventory of your workforce (status quo). We will analyse the effectiveness of potentially existing activities in the Diversity & Inclusion area.
Your benefits
- Number-based determination of your internal status quo
- Development of company-specific diversity measures
- Exact identification of possible "pain points"
- Useful impulses for an individual and targeted diversity management strategy for your company
Where is your company currently at in terms of diversity? What are your main challenges, and which approaches are you already using?
With our diversity analysis, we will produce a precise inventory of your workforce (status quo). We will analyse the effectiveness of potentially existing activities in the Diversity & Inclusion area.
Your benefits
- Number-based determination of your internal status quo
- Development of company-specific diversity measures
- Exact identification of possible "pain points"
- Useful impulses for an individual and targeted diversity management strategy for your company
How can you integrate Diversity, Equality & Inclusion in your company in a targeted and efficient way?
Based on the previous diversity analysis, we will examine the status quo and support you in defining the focus of your diversity management measures and therefore achieving your goals for more diversity.
Together we will define company-relevant goals and create an individual roadmap for your company’s business areas and management levels.
Your benefits
- (Further) development of your own corporate strategy
- Creation of targeted diversity management measures
- Quick wins by means of immediate implementation of easily implemented measures
- Improving internal and external communication
How can you integrate Diversity, Equality & Inclusion in your company in a targeted and efficient way?
Based on the previous diversity analysis, we will examine the status quo and support you in defining the focus of your diversity management measures and therefore achieving your goals for more diversity.
Together we will define company-relevant goals and create an individual roadmap for your company’s business areas and management levels.
Your benefits
- (Further) development of your own corporate strategy
- Creation of targeted diversity management measures
- Quick wins by means of immediate implementation of easily implemented measures
- Improving internal and external communication
Before we start the workshop, we carry out a Diversity Recruiting Pulse Check for your company in order to estimate the status quo. Together with your departments, we use our 7-phase diversity recruiting process to examine each individual step from planning to onboarding and develop an action plan to improve your D&I recruiting.
This workshop and the associated checklist have been created with the accumulated expertise of 20+ years as a market-leading company in the field of specialist recruitment and in cooperation with our internal diversity experts.
Your benefits
- Identification of improvement potential for a more diverse and inclusive recruiting process
- Expansion of your talent pool
- Improved employer branding
Before we start the workshop, we carry out a Diversity Recruiting Pulse Check for your company in order to estimate the status quo. Together with your departments, we use our 7-phase diversity recruiting process to examine each individual step from planning to onboarding and develop an action plan to improve your D&I recruiting.
This workshop and the associated checklist have been created with the accumulated expertise of 20+ years as a market-leading company in the field of specialist recruitment and in cooperation with our internal diversity experts.
Your benefits
- Identification of improvement potential for a more diverse and inclusive recruiting process
- Expansion of your talent pool
- Improved employer branding
We all have prejudices, whether they are conscious or unconscious. Because they help us to manage the flood of information that we are faced with nowadays. At the same time, these prejudices often lead to discrimination and unfairness, e.g. in personnel selection, promotions or the assembly of project teams. Our unconscious bias online training courses will show you how to deal with and break through these unconscious thinking patterns.
Your benefits
- Impetus for self-reflection and sensitisation for dealing with your own prejudices more consciously
- Basis for equal opportunities in recruitment and promotion processes and for a more diverse occupancy of project teams
We all have prejudices, whether they are conscious or unconscious. Because they help us to manage the flood of information that we are faced with nowadays. At the same time, these prejudices often lead to discrimination and unfairness, e.g. in personnel selection, promotions or the assembly of project teams. Our unconscious bias online training courses will show you how to deal with and break through these unconscious thinking patterns.
Your benefits
- Impetus for self-reflection and sensitisation for dealing with your own prejudices more consciously
- Basis for equal opportunities in recruitment and promotion processes and for a more diverse occupancy of project teams
Keynotes – Impulse talks by our experts
Sometimes it only takes a small impulse to start you thinking and question your own behaviour. In our impulse talks we will introduce you to basic diversity topics. Following a talk lasting for about 30 minutes, we will open the floor for your questions.
We would also be pleased to develop presentations on individual subject areas in consultation with you.
We have already been able to successfully take companies forward on their journey to a more diverse corporate culture with the following keynotes:
- Diversity & Inclusion Recruiting (D&I) – a leg up in the battle against labour shortages
- Gender equality – equal opportunities for everyone
- D&I: How to get started? Learn from our best practices
Best Practice Exchange
Would you like to know how other companies have taken the initial steps towards strategic diversity HR management with us? Have you already implemented some measures, but are currently not making any progress? Do you have specific questions, for example about setting up corporate networks to anchor diversity more firmly in your company?
We will advise you individually, and share our concentrated diversity consulting expertise with you.
Our references
„Hays has helped us to structure the approaches of our diversity strategy in a very well moderated workshop!“ - Frank Schübel, Managing director of Teekanne GmbH & Co KG in Düsseldorf (CEO)
“Kathrin captivates our HR community time and time again with her great energy and expertise. Her talk as part of the DGFP // Female Empowerment Conference had everything that good input should have; Openness, transparency and above all practical relevance. A clear recommendation in the diversity recruiting area!“ - Elisabeth Bartke from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Personalführung e.V.
"Thank you very much for this keynote speech on the subject of "Career, Equal Opportunities, Networking" and the expert tips and feedback on the numerous questions from the auditorium. Kathrin Weichel's presentation was a highlight and the perfect kick-off for the new Alcon women's network group. This is what we like online events to be: entertaining, interesting and sustainable" - Gabriele Beisheim von WaveLight GmbH
Diversity expert recruitment
Do you require your own diversity experts who will help you to establish relevant topics with regard to equal opportunities on a contract or permanent basis?
Provided that it is correctly set up and implemented, diversity management can take your company to a new level in a wide variety of ways. We know where to find suitable experts for doing this, and will recruit them for you on a project (contracting) or permanent basis.
We would be pleased to advice you.
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