Purposeful Integration of IDEA Awareness and Resources

Challenge

Sun understood the need for a solid foundation of knowledge and resources to ensure our team members use similar language with a shared understanding of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Actions

Ensuring all team members receive and have access to resources and learning content to promote a strong, diverse, and inclusive team that brings recognizes the important contributions of all for the greater success as a group.

  • Global Resources
    • Sun maintains a library of resources in Global Awareness, which is housed within the company’s intranet. These resources provide an avenue to better educate ourselves during our IDEA journey, and include articles, videos, podcasts, books, and websites.
  • Available Learning Content
    • Sun’s onboarding process includes a 90-minute class introducing new team members to our company culture. This introduction includes our mission and vision, core success attributes, customer service commitment, Fair Housing Act, following the golden rule, practicing inclusion, visible and invisible diversity, equity, access, allyship, harassment, general safety, heat illness, timekeeping, and professional appearance.
    • In addition to the onboarding course, Sun offers various courses and learning opportunities covering many topics including some courses offered include How to be an Ally for Diversity and Inclusion, How to Recognize and Overcome Bias, Working Across Cultures and more.
Outcomes

Purposefully incorporating Sun’s foundational diversity, equity and inclusion topics into our onboarding process, training and resources ensures all team members promote an environment of respect and inclusivity. The onboarding course allows us to reach 100% of our team members within their first day of employment. This establishes an awareness of how our team members can demonstrate inclusivity, providing the tools and resources needed to educate on the elimination of bias and discriminatory behavior.

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