To coincide with our 10th anniversary this autumn, we are relaunching our Toolkit – a flagship Real Estate Balance resource providing guidance to employers on initiatives relating to representation, fairness and belonging.
Organised into three sections – Leadership, Culture and Opportunity – the Toolkit provides an easy-to-navigate introduction to key topics including:
- The business and social cases for EDI
- Employee resource groups
- Reporting inappropriate behaviour
- Protected characteristics
- Undertaking diversity data collection exercises
- Benchmarking diversity data
- Measuring inclusivity
- The power of a culture of inclusion
- Hybrid and flexible working and culture
- Mentoring, reverse mentoring and sponsorship
- Bias in the workplace
- The Authority Gap
- Stigmas relating to menopause
- Intersectionality
- Degree apprenticeships
- Raising awareness of roles in real estate
- Inclusive recruitment practices
- Positive action vs positive discrimination
The newly-refreshed Toolkit includes more than 30 links to resources we have produced with our members over the years and leading third-party research and reports for those wanting to engage with the topics further.
You can read a report on the relaunched Toolkit in Property Week here.
Sue Brown, our Managing Director, said:
“Our relaunched Toolkit is designed to be a one-stop shop for real estate organisations of any size looking to improve their performance on issues like representation, fairness and belonging.
“The Toolkit not only includes the most up-to-date best practice, it’s also much more streamlined – telling people what they need to know or signposting them to other resources – and I’m sure it will be of real use to our members.”
Jo Davis, Principal and UK Executive Chair, Avison Young, and Chair of the REB Board of Directors added:
“What makes the new Toolkit so brilliant is that it draws on ten years of real-world expertise and experience – synthesising what works and presenting it in an accessible, easy-to-apply format.”
The Toolkit is an exclusive benefit for REB members. If you work for one of our members, you can request a copy of the Toolkit by clicking on the Contact button below and filling out the short form.