Inclusion & Social Mobility Reviews.
It’s possible for charity and commerce to coexist.
The Ladder Group combines charity and commerce to create real world solutions to early talent and social mobility challenges. Two companies and a charity, working together to create incredible careers. For everyone.
WHAT IS A SOCIAL MOBILITY REVIEW?
The Early Careers Group has designed a unique approach to helping organisations become truly inclusive workplaces.
Over 6-8 weeks, we’ll review up to five areas of your people, talent and DEI infrastructure through a unique social mobility lens.
This will provide you with a comprehensive understanding of where you are now, what your social mobility roadmap should look like, where your organisation is succeeding, where you can improve and – crucially – how.
An SMR is the first step in the process of becoming a truly socially inclusive employer.
WHY BOTHER?
Diverse workforces are more innovative, productive and ready for the future. In driving the social mobility agenda, businesses can drive commercial interests, help reach key ESG goals and increase racial, religious and ethnic diversity – all while making a positive impact on social mobility.
In seven leading law firms, employees
educated at state schools are
75%
more likely to feature in the top performer’s decile.
29%
more likely to underperform compared to their peers.
of young people within the UK would decline to join a business that is primarily made up of middle and upper-class employees.
is cited as one of the top three priorities by CEOs of major corporations across Europe and the US.
By ensuring your organisation is a place where people from different socioeconomic backgrounds can succeed, you will gain access to more talent, improve diversity, retain top performers, improve quality of decision making, drive employee motivation and satisfaction and improve your company’s global image.
INCLUSION RATINGS.
Understanding how you compare to peers, and setting a benchmark to work from.
One of the key outputs of an ECG Social Mobility Review is an Inclusion Rating – that summarises how socially inclusive your people, talent and DEI infrastructure is.
This enables organisations to compare themselves to other businesses, and have a clear, defined benchmark to track progress and improvements from – as well as understand how the recommended solutions will impact social inclusion.
REVIEW AREAS.
Focusing our review on the things that matter.
Social Mobility Reviews are focused on some or all of five areas of people, talent & DEI infrastructure that particularly impact social inclusion.
Attraction & Employer brand.
Assessment Processes.
Progression Pathways & L&D.
Communications.
Employment policies & data.
REVIEW PROCESS.
How we deliver our Social Mobility Reviews.
Collect
Gathering everything we assess.
Review
Reviewing your infrastructure.
Roadmap
Building your Social Mobility Roadmap.
Report
Delivering our findings and your inclusion rating.
Recommend
Recommending solutions.
Brand
Maximising brand opportunities.
OUTPUTS.
The end results of a Social Mobility Review.
Findings Report
RECOMMENDED SOLUTIONS
SOCIAL MOBILITY RATING
SOCIAL MOBILITY ROADMAP
INTERNAL COMMS
EXTERNAL BRAND
