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Our workforce is our most important partner in our ongoing efforts to
encourage diversity—as well as the source of our future leadership. In this
spirit, the SYSCO corporate office hosted a series of diversity forums
with our corporate associates to solicit their input on how we can improve
in this area.
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Five forums were conducted with Chairman and CEO Rick Schnieders
and Director of HR/Corporate. Approximately 100
associates—who represented recent hires, long-tenured associates, people of
color, women and Caucasian men—were invited to attend.
Through these forums, our associates brought several key issues to our attention;
following is a list of the initiatives we’ve identified to address each of them:
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- Communicate our leadership’s commitment to diversity
- Consistently deliver performance management
- Enable advancement of diverse talent throughout the organization
- Highlight and communicate partnerships and relationships with diverse organizations.
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In a follow-up to the forums, Chairman and CEO Rick Schnieders hosted an all-employee
session to explain the results as well as the related initiatives. In addition, a
Leadership Development series module called “The Business Case for Diversity”
has been created to be shared with all the associates at the corporate office.
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