Embracing DEI is now a common organizational value shared across most sectors and industries. But how do organizations measure and benchmark their efforts? Truth be told, it’s a lot more difficult than people often think—particularly when we’re talking about external benchmarking. Measuring culture internally is challenging enough, but measuring and benchmarking competitors is fraught with all kinds of obstacles and misperceptions. At least, that’s the position of Mary Hunter, Senior Vice President, Assessment Practice, for The Kaleidoscope Group. 

Hunter joins Reggie Ponder and Kat Potts, for a discussion about benchmarking in this episode of Becoming Inclusive, saying “benchmarking serves a really great purpose, in certain business instances, but not within employee perceptions around culture and organizational practice.” She contends that external benchmarking is complicated by the relevance of the competitor organizations you are measuring against.

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