Nazia Khamissa

At PeopleFluent’s recent annual user conference, WISDOM 2016, the company debuted major enhancements to its Mirror Suite of talent management software that empowers organizations to incorporate strategic initiatives and metrics to meet diversity and inclusion goals. Historically, companies’ management has been challenged by the struggle to fairly represent and include diverse groups, and counters that struggle by making strategic data-based business decisions.

The new Mirror capabilities are designed to address sensitive topics and critical, talent-related challenges such as high turnover, talent retention, performance issues, and overall employee engagement. Now, company executives have the deep insights to effectively and equitably plan for diversity and inclusion initiatives across all components of Talent Management (Recruiting, Onboarding, Performance Management, Compensation, Succession Planning and Learning Development), while incorporating transparent employee communications and workforce learning programs.

Each client has its own unique diversity and inclusion strategy, but the needs to develop targets and implement easy and robust reporting that proves demonstrable progress are universal. That’s why PeopleFluent is focusing on helping companies shift from the compliance needs of diversity and inclusion towards a bigger conversation about impacting employee engagement, development, and retention.

The Mirror Suite’s Diversity and Inclusion capabilities focus on improving employee engagement as it impacts the entire lifecycle of an employee. By expanding the internal and external diversity pool during the recruiting process to monitoring pay trends through the compensation mirror, PeopleFluent demonstrated the use of embedding a diversity and inclusion strategy across the organization. WISDOM provided attendees the opportunity to better understand how organizations with strong employee engagement effectively applied and tracked their diversity and inclusion goals, ultimately leading to strong business results.

“Understanding not just the responsibility, but also the value of building diverse workforces that exemplify the racial, gender, religious, age, and economic diversity populations that businesses serve – today and in the near future – is driving new and better business initiatives from organizations globally,” said Alys Scott, chief growth officer, PeopleFluent. “PeopleFluent’s heritage has always been focused on making diversity and inclusion efforts not about the count, but about actually making it count. We are proud to showcase how our powerful Mirror suite of solutions are helping organizations implement their inclusion initiatives and benefit from the innovation that better decision-making from diverse and varied views are able to provide.”

At WISDOM, PeopleFluent customers, Expedia and SiemensPLM Software, both presented compelling case studies on how they developed and executed on a strategic plan to become a more inclusive workplace. Both companies were able to show positive and direct effects on their business success based upon this commitment to diversity. Both addressed the topic in their respective workplaces head on by not only outlining the benefits of developing a strategy behind diversity and inclusion in an organization, but also understanding that this cannot happen unless companies are ready to ask some tough questions about their organization and the value associated with implementing a strategy. These are just two examples of enterprise organizations that PeopleFluent has partnered with in order to maximize their commitment to building a better and more diverse workplace for their employees.