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How to Use the What Works Toolkit

How can I get started?

The What Works Toolkit offers resources, supports and leading practices to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion within your organization.

There are many ways to use the What Works Toolkit based on your needs and priorities as an organization. To begin the game, it is recommended to start with the Mapping Your Journey to 50 – 30 tool.

Why start with Mapping Your Journey?

The tool contains an interactive map with tiles that lead to specific sections of relevant information within the other tools.
Using the map as a guide, you can think about strengths and opportunities you want to address within your organization and select the tiles that are most relevant to your needs.
You will be introduced to key terms and concepts, such as Psychological Safety, and learn about their importance in achieving the 50 – 30 Challenge.
Completing all of the tiles within this tool will provide you with a better understanding of how to promote a culture of belonging for everyone.

If you prefer to read a tool in full or know which specific tool you want to explore, you can access the tools digitally or download your own PDF copy. The tools you can select from are:

10 Actions You Can Take
Starting the Conversation
Talent Processes Tool
Board and Leader Guidebook
Guide to Sustaining Organizational Change

To access the tool digitally, hover over “Toolkit” on the website toolbar to access a drop-down list of each of the tools.

To download a PDF of the tool in English or French, select “Toolkit” from the website toolbar to reach the “Access All Tools” page.

Mapping Your Journey to 50 – 30

This tool is the loading page and gives a guide on how to reach the 50 – 30 Challenge. Organizations can select different tiles within the “map”, based on strengths and opportunities they might want to address to be directed to different parts of the toolkit.

10 Actions You Can Take

This tool provides individuals with 10 actions they can take to work towards the goal of the 50 – 30 Challenge. It is divided into 3 sections: learning and reflection, starting the conversation, and making a difference.

Starting the Conversation

This tool is intended to provide leaders with a framework for understanding where, when and how to start the conversation, and what “starting the conversation” means.

Talent Processes Tool

This tool is intended to support organizations in adapting talent processes to be more inclusive and equitable, and promote the advancement of priority groups across the talent lifecycle.

Board and Leader Guidebook

This tool is a handbook to support leaders and board members in modelling inclusive behaviours, creating open spaces and a sense of belonging within their organizations, and encouraging others to be champions.

Guide to Sustaining Organizational Change

This tool is focused on adapting systems and structures in place to be more inclusive, build access to opportunity, and track and measure progress to sustain culture change.