Diversity & Inclusion Open Playbook
A free resource hub on diversity and inclusion in tech
D&I best practice guides: created by employers, for employers
The Tech Talent Charter’s Diversity and Inclusion Open Playbook was a free, 42-chapter repository, containing more than 150 pages of D&I insights, data and guidance. It was built collaboratively, with Signatory organisations contributing expertise and resources for others to learn from and use. The Charter edited and curated these resources and other publicly available content to create a D&I best practice hub.
By sharing best practices with each other, Signatories helped to create a free and publicly accessible resource that all employers could use to improve their inclusion and diversity, irrespective of size or budget. Below is a small selection of some of the playbook’s most popular resources.
Rewards and Retention Playbook
This playbook, created by a collective group of Founders, HR & Diversity professionals, is tailored for your organisation to help you engage, reward and retain your talent whether you’re a startup, scaleup or SME.
How to support and promote individual contributors’ development in tech
By supporting IC development, companies can help to create a more inclusive and equitable workplace and reduce the high rate of attrition among employees in tech.
Overcoming The Motherhood Penalty
The tech industry is one of the fastest-growing and most innovative sectors, however, despite its many successes, gaining and retaining women in the tech industry continues to prove challenging.
Enabling progression: Women in tech
This guide offers actionable solutions for organisations to empower women and tackle a critical issue: retaining and progressing women leaders in tech.
How to support a culture of mentorship
In this guide you will learn how to avoid glue work, recognise role models, cultivate them in a business and what not to do in bringing forward role models.
Creating a culture where neurodiverse people can flourish
This guide is intended to support colleagues and leaders with quick, achievable actions in creating a culture where neurodiverse people can flourish, be successful and feel valued.
How to setup a successful tech apprenticeship
Tech apprenticeships have emerged as a compelling solution for introducing new tech talent into the market to not only address capability gaps, but also diversify workforces.
Education and Allyship
This is an Education and Allyship toolkit that empowers organisations and individuals to take immediate and meaningful action that progresses them on the journey to peak education and allyship when it comes to Black employees.
An easy-to-use guide to help you deliver a successful retraining programme
This guide covers the six stages of retraining success
How to gather workforce data
Data gathering is an important part of meeting your organisation’s goals around Diversity, Equality & Inclusion (DE&I) & the process can seem daunting. Here are some common concerns around collecting diversity data.
Setting and embedding targets
In this guide, we discuss setting and embedding targets. According to Gartner, prioritising a target which tracks progress over time is one of the top 3 factors to building sustainable diversity and inclusion in an organisation.
Increasing diversity in tech through reskilling existing staff
This starter toolkit provides six recommended steps for organisations interested in reskilling existing staff into tech roles.