Increasing Participation and Engagement in your Network
Thriving / Briefing Paper

In any organisation’s search for diverse talent, employee networks or resource groups are more important than ever in creating a workforce that mirrors customers and consumers to drive better business results. A successful organisation not only supports networks and resource groups but actively promotes them. They help signal to the wider community that the organisation values diversity and is an inclusive employer. They also signal to potential disabled employees that the organisation is on its journey to be disability confident.But once the initial rush of engagement, excitement and support in newly established networks/resource groups settles down into business as usual, how do you as a network chair maintain that engagement? How can you help others outside the network realise the disability network exists and how it supports people? Even if the network has been going for a while, how do you ensure new people to the business or those who have recently acquired a disability
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