“Success requires more innovative problem solving, and more innovative problem solving demands diversity and inclusion,” Shi said. Watch clips from his presentation below. Or you can view the full presentation from Toyota and download the slides at DiversityIncBestPractices.com.

Stephen Howard, Corporate Manager of Debt and Derivatives, Toyota Financial Services, shared how Toyota’s Treasury Department uses the diverse backgrounds and thoughts of its team and its suppliers to generate  significant business results.

“Working together with MWBEs is a sustainable platform. It’s good for business. It improves our ever-changing national demographic for the better,” Howard said. Watch clips from his presentation below. Or you can view the full presentation from Toyota and download the slides at DiversityIncBestPractices.com.

Toyota Motor North America is No. 41 in the 2012 DiversityInc Top 50.

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Dana Green, national manager, Corporate Diversity & Inclusion, and Nikki Nance, corporate manager administration, discuss at our diversity event how the car manufacturer’s innovative approach to diversity-management and HR enables the entire company to find, recruit, engage and retain the best talent, especially from underrepresented groups. Watch the video below.

Toyota Motor North America, No. 41 in the 2012 DiversityInc Top 50, is one of eight leading companies that presented at “Managing Relationships Between HR & Diversity Departments” held in New York City.  Visit DiversityInc.com/events for a schedule of our upcoming learning sessions. Also, register today for our  diversity web seminar on diversity councils on Oct. 16, where executives from Kellogg Company and Comcast will provide case study examples to help you  implement a successful diversity council–or better utilize the one you have–to drive measurable results.

For more on Toyota’s innovative recruitment and talent-development strategies, watch this Innovation Fest! presentation–How Recruiting People With Disabilities Solved Toyota’s Costly Problem–where executives detail how the company leveraged its employees with unique talents to speed up its production line, improve public relations and diversify its workforce.

Video Minutes:

0:00:00 How Manufacturing, Sales, Marketing & Finance Collaborate

0:01:15 Senior Execs Lead as Diversity Champions

0:02:14 Building Accountability for Diversity

0:03:30 Recruitment: Launching Mentoring Programs

0:04:25 Diversity Training for Diversity Champions

0:05:00 Diversity Benchmarking & Measuring Data

0:06:33 Executive Diversity Advisory Board

0:07:34 Recruitment: Work/Life Benefits, Messaging & Job Postings

0:10:52 College Recruiting

0:12:20 Talent Development & Measuring Employee Engagement

0:19:29 Toyota’s Two Pillars: Continuous Improvement & Respect for People

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Diversity leaders and HR experts from eight leading companies shared their proven strategies at our “Managing Relationships Between HR & Diversity Departments” diversity event held in New York City, revealing take-away best practices for maximizing organizational-behavior implementation and the successful navigation of corporate cultures.

Companies included: Sodexo, Toyota Motor North America, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, General Motors, KPMG, Accenture, Ernst & Young, and MasterCard.

Watch videos of the presentations in the player below. (For closed captions, press the CC button in the YouTube player.)

Click on the links below to view the presentations’ PowerPoint slides, available on DiversityIncBestPractices.com.

Managing Relationships Between HR & Diversity Departments

Should Diversity Report to HR?
Dr. Rohini Anand, Senior Vice President and Global Chief Diversity Officer, Sodexo

Working Collaboratively With HR
Recruitment & Talent Development: Dana Green, National Manager, Corporate Diversity & Inclusion, Toyota Motor North America

What HR Really Needs to Succeed
Rhonda Crichlow, Vice President and Head, U.S. Diversity & Inclusion, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation

Navigating Large Organizations
Cindy Brinkley, Vice President, Global Human Resources, General Motors

Can Diversity & HR Leave Room for Organizational Development?
Dr. Walter McCollum, Senior Director, Organizational Development, Sodexo

HR, Diversity & Mentoring
Dana Foote, Partner, Member of Diversity Advisory Board, Co-Chair, Abilities in Motion Network, KPMG

HR, Diversity & Resource Groups
Pedro Suriel, Senior Executive, Accenture

HR & Communications
Karyn Twaronite, Partner, Americas Inclusiveness Officer, Ernst & Young

HR & Legal—Setting Goals
Donna Johnson, Chief Diversity Officer, MasterCard Worldwide

Panel on How to Build Synergy Between Diversity Departments & HR
Dr. Rohini Anand, Sodexo; Dana Foote, KPMG; and Pedro Suriel, Accenture

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It took 18–24 months to create a safe work environment and educate existing employees about working with the new crew. The results:

• Overall employee engagement increased, as did awareness of people with disabilities
• The new employees reported great pride in their jobs
• Two seconds were shaved off the production process
• Community and public relations were improved

Presented by: Dave Orrender, Assembly Manager, and Tim Turner, Assembly Safety Team Leader, Toyota Motor North America.

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Toyota Motor North America is No. 41 on The 2012 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list.

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In our 90-minute diversity web seminar on innovation, Capital One Senior Director of Diversity & Inclusion Donna Schaar and The McGraw-Hill Companies Chief Diversity Officer Terri Austin, Digital Innovation Manager Olga Kozak and Enterprise Community Manager Edward Ford present their companies’ diversity-management innovations—Barriers to Greatness and Digital Employee-Resource Groups, respectively—which have resulted in increased productivity and improved employee engagement.

You will learn:

• How Capital One removed 107 operational, cultural and organizational “roadblocks” in six months.
• The best ways to collect employee input and build a culture of openness with high employee engagement.
• How McGraw-Hill launched a digital resource group and how it benefits the company’s product portfolio.
• How to leverage social media and other digital advancements to improve collaboration throughout your organization and increase employee engagement.

“The innovation and success we’ve seen as a company is about the people we hire,” says Schaar. “Innovation links to talent development—that’s truly what we believe. Diverse thought equals innovation.”

Watch the innovation web seminar on DiversityIncBestPractices.com.

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How are these companies attracting more talented recruits? Jennifer Terry-Tharp, director, staffing, talent attraction and analytics of AT&T, No. 4 in The 2011 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity, and KiKi Lorenz, college relations manager of Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. (Toyota Motor North America is No. 46), share their companies’ best practices and case studies for successful recruiting in this 90-minute recruitment web seminar. The seminar includes data trends from the DiversityInc Top 50, showing best practices that yield measurable human-capital results. Those best practices include the use of resource groups for recruitment and on-boarding, as well as formal, cross-cultural mentoring.

AT&T has demonstrated great success with its recruitment strategies. Terry-Tharp attributes its success in large part to its commitment to preventing high-school dropouts, especially Latinos and Blacks. AT&T is a major sponsor of the Aspire program, which launched in 2009, and works with job shadowing, mentoring and intervention strategies to cut the dropout rate of at-risk students.

Read Increasing Diversity in Talent Development for best practices in developing leadership.

Lorenz similarly emphasizes the importance of a targeted and well-planned internal and external recruitment strategy at Toyota. “Our challenge has been how to create a meaningful recruitment presence but with a smaller footprint,” she explains. “It’s much more than setting up a booth at a business fair.”

She said recruitment doesn’t stop once candidates are hired. “We have to re-recruit and re-engage our associates. If we don’t, other companies will, and we will be left with empty pockets in our workforce.”

To strengthen its efforts, Lorenz said that Toyota looks to community involvement to share its corporate culture and communicate its values to current employees and the public. Some of these relationships include outreach with TELACU and the Boys & Girls Clubs, as well as investments in its local Toyota plant and office locations. Read more about these initiatives in this interview with Toyota Financial Services’ CEO George Borst.

Other best practices that Terry-Tharp and Lorenz detail in the webinar include:

• Holding interactive events online and in-person
• Using resource groups to identify talent internally and externally
• Developing a targeted media and posting strategy for job listings
• Creating a detailed and focused career portal for candidates
• Building relationships and partnering with select organizations and schools

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There will be 10 corporate speakers in a one-day, information-dense program designed to give you ideas and action items to take home. No consultants, no sales pitches, no nonsense. We’ve vetted the ideas and speakers. Our full syllabus is below.

The presenting companies are: Colgate-Palmolive, Kaiser Permanente, Kraft Foods, Toyota, Sodexo, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, AT&T, McGraw-Hill, WellPoint and Capital One.

Innovation Fest! is sponsored by AT&T, CVS Caremark and Sodexo.

Click here to pay only $349, which includes a nice lunch with innovation-focused speaking guest James Surowiecki, author of “The Wisdom of Crowds.”

All presentations will be available online after the event.                                           

Best regards,

Luke Visconti
Chief Executive Officer
DiversityInc

Innovation Fest Syllabus

8:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast, Networking Session

10:00 a.m.–10:05 a.m. Introductory Remarks
Luke Visconti, CEO, DiversityInc

10:05 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Innovation: Colgate-Palmolive, Global Innovation Fund
Eugene Kelly, Worldwide Director, Global Diversity & Inclusion

10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. Innovation: Kaiser Permanente, Diversity & Health Film Series and Foreign-Language Interpreters
Tina Martelon, Senior Diversity Consultant, and Marcella Kutek, Diversity & Inclusion Manager

11:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. Innovation: Kraft Foods, JumpStart, Developmental Training for New Employees
Jim Norman, Vice President, Talent Acquisition, Diversity & Inclusion

11:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Innovation: Toyota, “ICARE” Associate Volunteer Program & Putting Workers With Disabilities on the Line
Elena Sacca Smith, Community Relations Manager, and Jae Requiro, Internal Diversity and Inclusion Process Manager, Corporate Social Responsibility, Toyota Financial Services, and Toyota Motor North America (TBD)

12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m. Lunch
With speaker James Surowiecki, author of “The Wisdom of Crowds”

1:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m. Innovation: Sodexo, Diversity Business & Leadership Summit
Texanna Reeves, Vice President of Corporate Diversity, and Betsy Silva, Senior Director of Diversity Learning, Consulting & Networking Groups

1:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m. Innovation: Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, Ethnic ERGs and Marketing
Kellie Molin-Kenol, Director, Diversity & Inclusion

2:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m. Innovation: Supplier Diversity, AT&T, Power Up Training for Suppliers
Marianne Strobel, Executive Director, AT&T Global Supplier Diversity

2:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Innovation: McGraw-Hill, Digital Employee-Resource Group
Terri Austin, Chief Diversity Officer

3:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m. Innovation: WellPoint, Empire BlueCross BlueShield Community Ambassador Program
Linda Jimenez, Chief Diversity Officer, Vice President, Diversity & Inclusion

3:30 p.m.–3:50 p.m. Innovation: Capital One, Barriers to Greatness
Rob Keeling, Vice President, Diversity & HR Communications, and Donna Schaar, Project Manager, Diversity Lead

3:50 p.m.–4:00 p.m. Closing Remarks
Luke Visconti

Click here to buy a ticket.

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Regardless of company size or industry, resource groups are increasingly becoming critical to business success.

In this 1,531-word article, “How Kraft Increased Promotions of Women in Sales by 39%,” DiversityInc offers the highlights from our exclusive roundtable on resource groups. Four diversity leaders from Kraft, Dell, JCPenney and Toyota provide 12 case studies of how to utilize resource groups in innovative ways to achieve measurable results and improvements in diversity metrics.

Increasing the representation of women in sales leadership roles would have been a difficult task for Kraft Foods without the help of its Women Sales Council, whose efforts at understanding flexible work arrangements and other motivating factors resulted in a 39 percent gain in sales promotions for women.

Other case studies and success stories include:

• How Dell used its millennial generational group to field-test its tablet
• How Toyota’s Latino Business Partnering Group helped develop in-language navigation systems with local accents
• How jcpenney increased its talent pipeline by 150 qualified candidates via an employee-resource-group event
• Why Kraft will utilize its employee-resource groups to sustain an inclusive corporate culture when the company splits into two businesses this year

The article also presents four video clips from the roundtable, so DiversityIncBestPractices.com subscribers can see and hear these case studies firsthand. 

Read “How Kraft Increased Promotions of Women in Sales by 39%” at DiversityIncBestPractices.com

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