{"id":2451,"date":"2020-02-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/vlogs\/summit-session-using-diversity-as-a-competitive-advantage\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T05:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T05:20:07","slug":"summit-session-using-diversity-as-a-competitive-advantage","status":"publish","type":"vlog","link":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/videos\/summit-session-using-diversity-as-a-competitive-advantage\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit Session: Using Diversity as a Competitive Advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- blocks\/hero-editorial -->\n<!-- inc\/hero-editorial -->\n<div class=\"hero es-hero__editorial hero--var-1\" role=\"banner\">\n\t<div class=\"hero__image\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Insight-Diversity-as-a-Competitive-Advantage-Featured.jpg);\">\n\n\t\t<div class=\"hero__overlay grad-overlay content-bottom\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hero__content\">\n                    \n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hero__content__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t                            <p class=\"es-label es-label--md\">\n                                Feb 14, 2020                            <\/p>\n                        \t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/videos\" class=\"theme-dark hero__back-link back-link es-label es-label--sm\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"icon icon--md icon--arrow-left\"><\/span>Videos<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"hero__title\">Summit Session: Using Diversity as a Competitive Advantage<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n        \n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n    <section class=\"es-section theme-light hero__sidebar-wrapper container\">\n        <div class=\"hero__sidebar\">\n                            <div class=\"category-list\">\n                  <div class=\"es-label es-label--sm\">Category<\/div>\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/category\/leadership-culture-performance\/\" rel=\"tag\">Leadership &amp; Culture<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/category\/summit-session\/\" rel=\"tag\">Summit Session<\/a>                <\/div>\n                            <div class=\"share-list\">\n                  <div class=\"es-label es-label--sm\">Share<\/div>\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/videos\/summit-session-using-diversity-as-a-competitive-advantage\/\">Facebook<\/a>\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/videos\/summit-session-using-diversity-as-a-competitive-advantage\/&#038;text=Summit Session: Using Diversity as a Competitive Advantage\">Twitter<\/a>\n                  <a href=\"mailto:?subject=Here's a Leaders In Sport article for you &amp;body=Check out this article: Summit Session: Using Diversity as a Competitive Advantage. https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/videos\/summit-session-using-diversity-as-a-competitive-advantage\/\">Email<\/a>\n                  <a href=\"#copyLink\" id=\"copyButton\" class=\"copy-link-clipboard\">Copy Link<\/a>\n                  <div id=\"textToCopy\" class=\"font-hidden\">https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/videos\/summit-session-using-diversity-as-a-competitive-advantage\/<\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<!-- blocks\/section -->\n<section\n  class=\"es-section flexible-section  text-only theme-light\"\n    >\n                <div class=\"container\">\n                                    <div class=\"bg-striped-pattern__inner section-padding-top section-padding-bottom\">\n                <div class=\"es-section__inner col-parent col-parent--stack-sm\">\n                                            <div class=\"es-section__sidebar es-section__sidebar--sticky col col--12 \">\n                                                            <p class=\"es-section__label es-label es-label--md\">From the art of building a world-class organization from scratch, we turned our attention to the hot topic of diversity and how in turn it can act as a catalyst of enhance organizational performance. We explored the challenges associated with building an organizational diversity program, the importance of cognitive diversity on decision making and how diversity lends to heightened creativity.<\/p>\n                            \n                                                                <div class=\"video video__inline\">\n                                        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/391177362\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n                                    <\/div>\n                            \n                            \n                                                            <div class=\"es-section__text content-area\">\n                                    <p><p><strong>Key Takeaways<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Why diversity? <\/strong>Take time to walk through that whole life cycle to understand what the need was for diversity within an organization, and why. It means we can have a focus on inclusion. Making sure that every employee feels respected, and invested in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Commitment from the top:<\/strong> \u2018When we started this department and I started this role, I needed to make sure that there was buy in from the leadership. The commitment needed to be there, or we\u2019d be on the back foot from the start\u2019.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Observe first: <\/strong>Taking a step back to understand what diversity meant to everyone in the organization. And it can be daunting. But you have to start the conversation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>No quick fix: <\/strong>Again, the reason behind it is so important. How are we maximizing performance from a diversity perspective?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Be proactive, not reactive: <\/strong>Make sure to think ahead with recruitment and spreading the message about how and why diversity is so important to the organization, and the culture.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Thinking Points<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Don\u2019t think of diversity as a box ticking exercise because it\u2019s the \u2018flavor of the month\u2019 \u2013 you should be looking to ingrain this across the organization and in your culture.<\/li>\n<li>Having diversity in your organisation is crucial, because the knowledge that you do have (which is of course incomplete) can be challenged.<\/li>\n<li>Diverse groups of problem-solvers consistently outperform the best and brightest. Give your staff autonomy to create their own work spaces and build flexibility into how they work.<\/li>\n<li>Homogenous groups are certainly vulnerable to perspective blindness. We\u2019re all constrained in our decision-making by our unconscious biases.<\/li>\n<li>If you have a culture that encourages new ideas, constructive feedback and dissent, as well as having strong networks through which rebel ideas can flow, you will innovate faster than those cultures that are held back by cultures of intellectual conformity.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n                                <\/div>\n                            \n                            \n                            \n                                                    <\/div>\n                                        <div class=\"col visibly-hidden col--flex-align-right\">\n                                            <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":2452,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[20,33],"pathway":[],"topic":[],"sport":[],"class_list":["post-2451","vlog","type-vlog","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leadership-culture-performance","category-summit-session"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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