Accountability

Accountability means responsibility

The “A” in IDEA stands for “accountability,” which has been added to inclusion, diversity, and equity to promote personal responsibility in making IDEA happen. IDEA aims to promote personal investment among each of us to help make the Lab more inclusive, diverse, and equitable in our day-to-day roles, perhaps by speaking up or becoming an active bystander. We all have a role to play in IDEA. Inclusion, diversity, and equity are everyone’s responsibility.

Good Reads

5 Things We Learned About Creating a Successful Workplace Diversity Program – Harvard Business Review, 2018
The Diversity and Inclusion Revolution: Eight Powerful Truths – Deloitte Review, 2018
The Mistake Companies Make When They Use Data to Plan Diversity Efforts – Harvard Business Review, 2019
Reducing the Impact of Bias in the STEM Workforce – Office of Science and Technology Policy
Diverse STEM Workforce Needed to Preserve U.S. Competitiveness – American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2019
What’s Holding Women Back in Science and Technology Industries – Harvard Business Review, 2014

Accountability Leadership Trainings

LinkedIn Learning:

- How Culture Affects Change – 3 minutes
- Harness Diversity to Ensure Long-Term Growth – 6 minutes
- Diversity and Inclusion: Strategy – 3 minutes
- Embed Diversity and Inclusion Into the Strategy and Culture – 4 minutes
- Bystander Training: From Bystander to Upstander – 41 minutes

Ted Talks:

- How Do We Bridge the “Anxiety Gap” at Work? – 12 minutes
- 3 Ways To Be A Better Ally in the Workplace – 9 minutes

For more resources and trainings, please visit the Learning@LBL website brought to you by Berkeley Lab's Learning & Organizational Development Office.

Resources include:

Recommended courses like Inclusion During Difficult Times & Communicating About Culturally Sensitive Issues
Self Directed Learning Platforms such as LinkedIn, Gartner & the UC Learning Center
Self Development courses, articles, books and podcasts
Team Development resources on team building, coaching, management

Do you need a slide for a quick meeting opener or a prompt to start a longer discussion on inclusion? Check out the One Minute for IDEA slides.

For a longer discussion, check out the Discussion Guide Library

Accountability means being responsible. It means taking action to put inclusion, diversity, and equity into action. Bill Collins, Director of Berkeley Lab’s Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division, and Director of the Environmental Resilience Accelerator, describes what it looks like when leaders are accountable for inclusion, diversity, equity, and accountability, or IDEA