Grappling with how to strengthen their employees’ talent and broaden the diversity of their staff is something most leaders do, including U.S. President Barack Obama.
Obama, in a memorandum released Wednesday, addressed the reasons why diversity matters. Diverse groups are better problem-solvers, and a broad pool of talent means that an organization or a government will be better positioned to tackle some of the greatest challenges and “maximize employee engagement and innovation.”
The goal of the memorandum was to serve as a road map of sorts on how, in that case, different departments and government agencies can better recruit and engage a diverse group of talent. Which begs the question, what can development organizations — whether they are government agencies or small nongovernmental organizations — do to boost their diversity?
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Jennifer Piettedisgeneration
Jennifer Ehidiamen is a Nigerian writer who is passionate about communications and journalism. She has worked as a reporter and communications consultant for different organizations in Nigeria and overseas. She has an undergraduate degree in mass communication from the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos, and M.A. in business and economics from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York. In 2014, she founded Rural Reporters (www.ruralreporters.com) with the goal of amplifying underreported news and issues affecting rural communities.
