We require all new employees to complete inclusive diversity training. We educate our recruiters, managers and hiring managers to foster inclusive hiring and value diversity in the workplace.
Training covers a variety of topics, including self-awareness regarding cultural identity and unconscious bias, and provides tools to help employees create a more inclusive environment. Participants complete self-assessments on their level of cross-cultural competency.
In 2018, Allstate launched a new course, Disrupting the Unconscious Bias of Cultural Fit, designed to target ways we may unconsciously label diverse candidates as not "the right fit" for a role. The course presents new ways to evaluate how everyone can add to the organization and create change. Multiple business units have included this course offering in their leadership training, and approximately 1,000 employees have participated.
The inclusive diversity team also leads quarterly Inclusive Conversation events. These conversations help Allstaters build inclusive diversity capabilities, foster more meaningful relationships with their peers, and discuss current, relevant topics like privilege and unconscious bias.
We host diversity programs on critical topics such as gender identity and transitions, religion in the workplace and generational differences. Many of these topics, particularly unconscious bias and leveraging inclusive diversity, are embedded into other management development training and programs throughout the enterprise.
To date, more than 43,000 Allstate employees have participated in inclusive diversity training.