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What is Burnout?
48% of employees globally report feeling burned out. Learn about the causes of burnout and strategies to address it.
Launching IDEA in 7 Steps
Strategic steps on your organization's journey towards inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility.
Co-Creating Inclusive Group Norms
Preparing for inclusive co-creation? Use this tool to collaboratively set group norms.
Who Speaks for the Community?
What defines a member of the community we seek to design with and for? A strategic reflection tool for community-based co-creation.
Inclusion in Action
As an industry, we build belonging by actively and consistently working towards inclusion. Learn some ways you can help create spaces where everyone can belong.
IDEA Strategic Planning Template
A template to develop your organization's IDEA strategic plan
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Harvard Business Review
Organizations are making it a priority to treat all employees equitably, and to create the conditions to make everyone feel welcomed and included. Two-thirds of respondents to a recent survey of 1,115 North American organizational leaders conducted by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services say that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)* is a high strategic priority for their organization.
Creating a Culture of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Accessibility.Works
In the U.S., web accessibility is not just governed by the ADA. Various states have also passed laws, making it even more essential to ensure your website is accessible. For instance, New York and California have stringent regulations, and not complying could lead to state-level penalties. In New York this year, as federal judges clamp down on serial filers, such filers are shifting toward state courts.
Budgeting for Web Accessibility: The Process and Costs of ADA Compliance
Pronouns.org
Depending on the cultural, organizational, and situational context, and the personalities and positionalities of the people interacting, there are many different ways to act if there has been a mistake in referring to someone with the incorrect pronouns.
What if someone makes a mistake and mispronouns someone else?
Gallup
Managers form the bridge between leadership and the rest of the organization, which means they are often caught between employees’ and leaders’ expectations. During times of change, that’s a recipe for burnout.
The Manager Squeeze: How the New Workplace Is Testing Team Leaders
American Alliance of Museums
Collections lie at the heart of most museums, so naturally values regarding the ownership and control of collections are central to museum ethics. Recent developments at the global, national, and institutional level—including a wave of voluntary repatriation to descendant communities—suggest we may be at a tipping point regarding those values.
The Next Horizon of Museum Practice: Voluntary Repatriation, Restitution, and Reparations
Design Justice Network
Design justice rethinks design processes, centers people who are normally marginalized by design, and uses collaborative, creative practices to address the deepest challenges our communities face.
Design Justice Principles
PGAV Destinology
Cultural appropriation. Deep breath. This one might be tough, but if we remember the tenets of empathy in design (perspective, avoiding judgment, recognizing emotion, and communication), we know it’s important to talk about.