About TAP
Helping Companies Diversify Their Workforce
Our diversity navigators provide support and guidance to communities and businesses striving to develop sustainable relationships with neighbors, customers, investors, and employees. Our tools are diverse. Our techniques are inclusive. Our strategies build roads for authentic and honest dialogues in safe and open spaces with clear goals, outlines leading to action and accountabilities. Our guided conversations aim to strengthen inside strategies resembling cultural, equitable, and diverse explorations for teams, groups, and neighbors.
TAP’s History
Our “Take A Pause” concept began in 2008. The U.S. economy had collapsed. Companies were struggling to sustain customers and staff. Cyclical unemployment strained the budgets of businesses and households alike. Due to this experience, we saw the demand for a workforce of skilled, certified, and licensed labor in companies throughout the nation.
Our Approach
We believe that employers that fish for labor in familiar watering holes are limiting themselves from many possibilities. To address this, we help companies reevaluate their guidelines on sourcing and recruiting. We utilize fair-minded critical thinking methods to help groups build bridges and opportunities for economic prosperity to those experiencing educational, health, and economic disparities.
Mission
Facilitating conversations, collaborations, and collective ventures which increase equitable and intentional efforts of diversity and inclusivity in the workforce.
Vision
Revealing the optical illusions and the cultural blindness of a utopia of togetherness. Intentionally dusting of lens to showcase diverse talents, diverse skills, and diverse labor available for the workforce. Direct divisive and challenging conversations from destruction to construction of equitable opportunities for each and every individual, company, industry.
What Is Diversity?
Diversity is seeing, acknowledging, and accepting the beauty in the concept itself, which we define as variety in:
TAP the GAP by removing barriers of resources to stabilize our communities and workforce.
What We Do
Our experienced team has the skills to work with small, medium, and large businesses to improve their performance and give them a competitive edge in their industry. We provide on-site and off-site sessions and create environments to train a group of employees or even entire departments.
TAP Diversity Navigators employs people with the ability to confidently collaborate with businesses, municipalities, and educational entities. They must have a personal and broad understanding of people in diverse neighborhoods, local cities, and international communities of varying demographics.
We train our staff to assess and analyze a client’s needs using fair-minded critical thinking methods, providing them with:
- Research
- Statistics
- Feasibility Studies
- Productivity Analysis
- Inclusivity Accountabilities on Demographics
- Geography and Labor Trends
We launch campaigns that are tailored to suit the company’s needs, such as:
- Recruiting Workforce
- Reducing Turnover
- Retaining Employees
- Promoting/Designing Career Pathways and Growth
- Diversifying Strategies for Marketing Community Engagement and Public Relations With Diverse Groups
Our Team
We select our subcontractors using the TAP Diversity Navigators Resource guide. This is to ensure that we hire from culturally diverse and professionally diversified individuals, companies, and industries.
At our company, our consulting staff is composed of fully certified and degreed experts in an array of industries and business development fields, these include:
- Diversity and Inclusion
- K-12 Education
- Human Resources
- Customer Service Management
- Marketing/PR
- Healthcare
- Finance
- Technology
Our training team develops a customized training program, tailor-made guides, and plans and strategies all while working within the parameters of our client’s company agenda. The trainers provide the tools to help the company reach their individual and organizational goals faster.
These members of our staff focus on planning, guiding, and managing diversity events and workshops utilizing a joint-journey mapping process. Through this method, we help our clients reach their desired outcomes and results. The goals of the activity are based on the specific needs, cultural relevance, and characteristics of the participants in the sessions.