Online Diversity Assessment Test: Helps you identify the salient characteristics of inclusive leadership

Inclusive leadership is one of the critical elements essential for successful leaders, especially in the post-pandemic era. This inclusion assessment tool will assess various sub-competencies of inclusive leadership and highlight the most vital areas of development for leaders and managers. This assessment details four areas/dimensions of inclusive leadership capability and probes into these critical areas to provide a comprehensive overview of leadership strengths and areas of personal growth.  

Inclusive leadership dimensions	Definition	Competency
Live diversity	Being curious about what is different from oneself, showing empathy, openness, and flexibility, with an awareness of one's own and others' biases, stereotypes, and prejudices to overcome them. Not being afraid of showing vulnerability and acting with humility.	Learning agility Flexibility Empathy Self-awareness
Nurture inclusivity	Adopting active listening to welcome and integrate uniqueness, creating an environment of psychological safety that encourages speaking up, open exchange of perspectives, experiences and approaches, ensuring participation and active collaboration by all.	Effective communication Being inclusive Networking
Empower uniqueness	Valuing differences, being aware of the uniqueness of the individual, stimulating and supporting their arising and development to maximize their contribution to the common goal.	Lead by example  Coaching and mentoring
Commit to equity	Managing any conflicts that may arise from diversity, taking the risk to change the status quo and making fair, participatory decisions with courage.	Ethical propensity Innovation Conflict management

 

An ideal approach of deploying the inclusive leadership assessment would be as follows: 
 

Individual level: aimed at understanding openness to diversity at a personal level	Mercer | Mettl Personality Map (MPM) mapped against the inclusive leadership model +Verbal ability test
Individual and group level: aimed at understanding DEI at both individual and group levels	Mercer | Mettl Personality Map (MPM) mapped against the inclusive leadership model + Verbal ability test + multi-rater feedback
Organizational level: aimed at understanding DEI at a corporate level	An organization-wide survey for obtaining vital insights into organizational perspective around DEI

 

This inclusive leadership  assessment consists of 175 questions and takes approximately 35 to 40 minutes to complete. 

Overview

In this constantly evolving world, it is important to adapt quickly to change. Changes in sociocultural factors and working dynamics have sparked an unprecedented demand to create more diverse, inclusive, and equitable organizations.  

An overwhelming number of millennials are placing a premium on a company’s concrete commitment to workplace diversity before accepting a job offer. Similarly, more employees are switching jobs due to a non-inclusive organizational culture. And it makes complete sense that employees seek more certainty and flexibility about post-pandemic working arrangements. Moreover, a growing number of companies are accelerating their shift toward an environmental, social and governance (ESG) and multi-stakeholder business approach.  

These significant changes underscore two critical facts: 

• Current complexity involves cross-functional inclusion and intersectionality. 
• People are now more appreciative and sensitive to DEI and social responsibility initiatives. 

Numerous factors contribute to building diversity and inclusion, and organizations should always consider these factors, whether they want to create substantial diversity recruiting strategies or overcome the barriers and biases to employee training and development.  

However, inclusive leadership is the most critical factor that helps encourage diversity and ensure sustainable organizational growth. The tricky part is that inclusive leadership is rare and highly sought after. The good news, however, is that it can be assessed through data-driven DEI assessment tools.    

The importance of measuring diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace 

Sometimes it is challenging for organizations to proceed in the right direction while addressing diversity, equity, and inclusion factors. The main organizational challenges some leaders might face are: 

• Understanding the outcome of several DEI activities undertaken in the past  
• Following the steps that need to be taken to ensure DEI is ingrained within their organization's culture and talent management functions 

Mercer | Mettl's inclusion assessment provides granular insights into several essential competencies that skilled, inclusive leaders possess and focus on AODs that support diversity, equity, and inclusion in organizations. This diversity and inclusion leadership assessment tool will help you: 

• Assess the underlying leadership strengths and where one should channel efforts to improve 
• Understand which factors need refinement, which to assess, which to leverage, and which to uphold