| In 1999, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) adopted its first diversity strategic plan. As I travel around the FDIC offices, talking to people all over the country, I find that the diversity initiative is a genuine success story. We are attaining our goal to ensure that our workplace is fair and inclusive, giving all employees the chance to work to their fullest potential-individually and collectively-in the pursuit of the FDIC's mission.
We can all be proud of what we've accomplished-as an agency-toward making the FDIC an employer of choice. And outsiders have noticed it, too. When people talk about the fine work we're doing here at the FDIC, diversity is always at the top of the list. Here are a few highlights:
- All FDIC employees -executives, managers and supervisors included-have attended corporate diversity awareness training.
- Since the diversity plan's adoption, more than 80 cross-divisional developmental opportunities have been created throughout the FDIC.
- A pilot for Diversity Dialogue Groups-enhancing individual awareness and understanding of workforce diversity-is underway.
- Our mentoring program continues to thrive-97 mentor/mentoree pairs are currently participating-and we'll soon announce our third group of mentor/mentoree pairs.
- We've adopted a career development management program that makes guidance and resources available to all employees.
- And to ensure that merit promotion panels represent the FDIC's diverse workforce, we've taken steps to develop guidance on rating-panel membership. Our offices will be asked to consider diversity in naming panel members.
Through these-and other-efforts, we continue to build and reinforce a culture that values all our employees. Diversity remains an ongoing business priority at the FDIC.
January 2001
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