Overview

Good diversity and equality practices should involve setting targets and timetables for change and should form part of your overall equality and diversity strategy. 

Targets are not quotas but they are an important tool that can help you to chart progress and to benchmark yourself against others. They should be set using information you have about your organisation and alongside actions that can bring about that change. Any targets set should be specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time bound. 

The following tool will outline a series of steps that may support you in setting aspirational and longer term targets.