Equality Highlight

The Crane Culture - Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Training

We believe that our focus on diversity and inclusion will enhance our culture, and build upon the great foundation we already have in place. Driven by the Crane Business System’s continuous improvement focus, we are always looking for ways to better put our values into action. Crane took a big step in this direction with the development and roll-out of our internal “Culture & Equality” training workshops for all associates in 2021. Rather than promoting an off-the-shelf commercially available solution, we developed our own training to emphasize and promote the best aspects of Crane’s culture, with a focus on how it is critical to attract and retain top talent. We believe that taking a customized, in-house approach to training, with all workshops led by Crane management rather than third parties, is critical to properly conveying the importance of this initiative.

The targeted outcomes for these workshops, which we believe we achieved successfully, were to:

• Raise awareness of the overarching Crane culture and our deep history.
• Orient all salaried attendees to Leadership at Crane.
• Demonstrate that the tone is set from the top with the welcome message from Max Mitchell (our CEO) and Tami Polmanteer (our CHRO), and establish Presidents, Site Leaders, and HR Leaders as “owners” who truly believe in building on our culture to enhance inclusion to achieve diversity.
• Discuss the principles of promoting inclusion and what Crane is already doing to achieve this.
• Engage each team in self-reflection and a team-based assessment to gauge where they are today in terms of promoting inclusion.
• Leverage the self-assessment to establish commitments for becoming even more inclusive.