Criteria of the CEO Diversity Leadership Award
The criteria for the awards have been carefully determined and reviewed with your staff:
- Champion of leadership and diversity
- Leader for diversity through outstanding corporate initiatives
- Visionary for today and for tomorrow
- Commitment to diversity establishing a "Living Legacy"
- Special recognition of the community and philanthropic support
Further leadership initiatives we review include overall leadership with
the following:
- Signing a mission statement
- Providing Policy support and initiatives
- Ensuring top management support
- Board make-up and board support
- Working with your Diversity Officer
- Chairing or leadership in the Diversity Council
- Reviewing diversity reports on a periodic basis with most senior corporate management
- Supporting diversity goals with measurement
- Supporting career development programs
- Endorsing diversity within an incentive or even bonus system
- Supporting succession planning and championing
- Supporting mentoring including top management participation
- Supporting employee networks or affinity groups
- Participating in diversity awards
- Speeches on diversity
- Attending diversity events
- Being a philanthropic and community champion of diversity