From the course: Achieving Employee Resource Group Excellence
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Assessing your ERG's current state
From the course: Achieving Employee Resource Group Excellence
Assessing your ERG's current state
So, the first thing that Google Maps does is when you open the app is it shows up and it says, where are you? Are you this blue dot? Where are you? Because what Google Maps wants to know is it wants data to know what your current state is, right? That's part of their process. Well, that's what I advocate Employee Resource Groups should do, is before they start putting a plan together, the very first step is for them to get a better sense of what is the current state of their Employee Resource Group. Oftentimes, the way ERGs will do that is they'll do a SWOT analysis of their ERG. So, they'll look at what are the strengths of our Employee Resource Group. What are the things we do well? What are some weakness areas? What are things that we're struggling with and are getting in the way of our performance? We've seen ERGs look at what are the opportunities that are coming up, where we're going to get an enhanced budget, or we're going to get a new executive sponsor, right? What are some…
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