Fair360 is thrilled to share our Cultural Connection Calendar: A Guide for Multicultural Awareness in the Workplace. This resource helps your organization increase awareness of cultural and religious holidays, supporting a workplace where employees feel valued, understood and included.
We encourage you to use this calendar in the following ways:
- Post the calendar in a central location and share it with your employees via email, in print or through
your intranet along with a message underscoring your organization’s goal of inclusivity. - Consider how to observe the cultural events on the calendar – and think about any that should be added – based on your organization’s employees and customers/constituents.
- Involve key leaders and stakeholders.
- Conduct an employee survey.
- Partner with Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).
- Create a planning committee including employees representing a span of cultures and religions.
- Create opportunities to recognize cultural events.
- Offer educational workshops focused on the historical and cultural significance of the holiday.
- Host celebrations/observances that include employees and/or guest speakers sharing their traditions.
- Organize food tastings featuring traditional dishes.
- Arrange service opportunities in your community.
- Coordinate virtual learning resources covering the history and traditions of the holiday.
- Provide cultural sensitivity training.
- Acknowledge holidays in team meetings.
- Allow attendance to be optional while encouraging employee participation in programs/events.
- Measure and evaluate the impact of programming with key performance indicators (KPIs) including
attendance, employee engagement and testimonials; adjust as needed. Also link programming to
employee engagement scores and retention in your organization’s annual survey if applicable.
View the Cultural Connection Calendar below or download it here. To view our existing and upcoming Cultural Connection Toolkits, click here. Additionally, you can scan the QR codes throughout the calendar to view the toolkits and other articles.
