Course description
People have always needed to work together to succeed in creating profitable businesses. In today’s business environment, employers have a large pool of talent to select from when hiring. But this variety brings unique challenges of its own when it comes to creating an equal opportunity workplace. This includes hiring people from all walks of life: different races, religions, languages, lifestyles, and many other unique characteristics. For your organization to succeed, everyone needs to be on the same page and working towards the same goal.
Upcoming start dates
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Diversity awareness in workplace training course is ideal for :
- HR Managers and Empolyess
- Executives and senior leadership teams who have the initiative and influence to advance diversity and inclusion efforts
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Diversity awareness in workplace training course helps to:
- Enhance awareness and understanding of the value of an inclusive workforce/meeting the needs of diverse service users and clients
- Enhanced engagement of staff and volunteer teams.
- Enhance knowledge of good diversity and inclusion practice in the workplace.
- Ensure staff/managers are meeting your legal obligations.
- Improve outcomes as an organisation.
- Develop awareness and knowledge of the many dimensions of diversity.
- Identify the major components of culture and its influence on the individual and on relationships.
- Examine the effect of group affiliations on individual identity.
- Explore the costs and effects of stereotyping.
- Recognise the stages towards an inclusive workplace.
- Improve communication amongst diverse employees.
Training Course Content
Day 1
Diversity: Similar Differences
- Chapter Objectives
- What is Diversity?
- Dimensions of Diversity
- Activity: Similar Differences
- Levels of Uniqueness
- Activity: Who Am I?
How Culture Shapes Us
- Chapter Objectives
- What is Culture
- Layers of Culture
- Activity: Brief Encounters
- Values: The Core of Culture
- Value Programming
- Activity: My Life’s Journey
- Steps for Building Understanding
Day 2
Diversity and Inclusion
- Chapter Objectives
- Activity: Portraits of Diversity
- Share of the Workforce
- Approaches to Diversity
- Steps Towards an Inclusive Workplace
- Activity: Identifying Barriers to Inclusion
- Benefits of an Inclusive Workplace
- Characteristics of an Inclusive Workplace
Day 3
Identity Groups and Stereotypes
- Chapter Objectives
- What is Group Identity?
- Group Identities are Important
- When There are Few Amongst Many
- Stereotyping
- Pitfalls and Costs of Stereotyping
- Why People Stereotype
- Activity: Internalised Oppression; Internalised Pride
- Activity: Untold History
Day 4
Race, Gender, Power
- Chapter Objectives
- Conscious/Unconscious
- Expectations and Assumptions
- Unconscious Bias
- Key Characteristics of Unconscious Bias
- Some Types of Unconscious Bias
- Systemic Racism and Sexism
- How ‘isms” are Built
- Activity: I Don’t Know What I Don’t Know
- Characteristics of Dominant Groups
- Outcomes: Racist/Sexist vs. Inclusive
- What is Power?
- Activity: Race/Gender and Power
Day 5
Communicating in a Diverse Workplace
- Chapter Objectives
- Definition of Communication
- Axioms of Communication
- Communication Keys
- Activity: Diversity Competence Skills
- Diversity Mindset
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