The Ultimate Diversity & Inclusion Change Programme
In-House Training, Available As:
- Full or half-day workshop or 1 hour interactive webinar
- In-person or live virtual
- Fully customisable
- Option to enhance with actors
- Embed learning with Toolkit Takeaways
The Ultimate Diversity & Inclusion Change Programme Training Solution
There is a bucket-load of evidence to show that organisations who nurture inclusive cultures – where all their people feel a sense of belonging – are head and shoulders above their competitors in terms of creativity, productivity and profitability. But, as with so many worthwhile journeys in life, there are no shortcuts to reaching this destination.
The Ultimate Diversity & Inclusion Change Programme is a four x half-day, modular diversity programme, which can optionally include professional actors, and has been carefully designed to take your people on a journey. Whilst we do start with the foundations, including definitions and legal considerations, this course is designed to impart the knowledge, skills, and confidence for individuals to practically and proactively champion inclusion. By building on the learning over time, with collaborative workplace-relevant activities between modules to encourage implementation of new skills and ideas, this is a programme that we promise to drive tangible change.
Learning outcomes:
- Recognise the value of diversity, equality, and inclusion and positive impact on all.
- Learn how to effectively identify and challenge non-inclusive behaviours.
- Discover personal motivations for advocating diversity and commit to actionable steps.
- Move from awareness of unconscious bias to implementing conscious inclusion strategies.
- Acquire skills to confidently navigate and lead courageous conversations.
- Understand and apply the concepts of allyship and psychological safety.
- Gain insights into the bystander effect and privilege, along with positive action.
- Develop the confidence to be an active ally, creating safer, more inclusive workspaces.
Workshop Outline...
Module 1: Equality, Diversity & Inclusion for Everyone
This interactive, hands-on workshop explores and celebrates equality, diversity, and inclusion, and reminds us that this unequivocally impacts us all. While we do look at the legal definitions associated with the topic, the aim of this course is to create a series of lightbulb moments and highlight the contribution each of us makes to our environment.
It explores what can happen when banter goes a step too far, which can be brought to life using drama, and identifies practical ways each of us can challenge non-inclusion. Most importantly, individuals will have found their personal motivation and a set of specific actions they can implement to be an active player in shaping the environment around them.
Module 2: From Unconscious Bias to Conscious Inclusion
There are numerous studies reporting the impact of unconscious bias on our day-to-day interactions. But many studies show that raising awareness of unconscious bias is not enough to drive meaningful change.
By moving from simple awareness of unconscious bias to tangible action, this course is designed to equip people with the practical knowledge and confidence to guard against unconscious bias, recognise how it may show up in their day to day, and commit to meaningful action to consciously include.
Module 3: Courageous Conversations
This workshop equips participants with skills to navigate what can sometimes be tricky or uncomfortable conversations with confidence. Participants will learn the importance of speaking out and how to overcome the ‘fear factor’ and enhance their ability to lead on courageous conversations which lead to win-win outcomes.
Module 4: Allyship & Psychological Safety
This module uncovers what we mean by phrases like allyship, bystander effect, privilege, and psychological safety but most importantly, how to take that understanding and turn it into positive action. This is a hands-on, whistle-stop tour of a big subject that is relevant to us all and an imperative building block to creating truly inclusive workplace cultures.
Whilst the four modules outlined here are our recommendations, we recognise that every organisation will have differing needs so bear in mind this programme can be customised, mixed, or matched to align exactly with your people development objectives.
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We’re advocates of crafting tailormade solutions that ensure you meet objectives and maximise budgets. Contact us to book a meeting to scope the right solution for your organisation, together.
What About Actors?
Through clever script writing, goosebump-inducing delivery and professional facilitation, we love to bring learning to life with actors…
We can select scripts from our library or write them specially for you, based on typical scenarios you see within in your organisation. For larger projects where budgets don’t allow for live acting, we can professionally film bespoke scenarios to create video content which can be used in the training as well as induction, toolkits, and beyond.
Using actors in workshop give delegates the opportunity to:
- Test out alternative ways of approaching what can sometimes be difficult situations, without the pressure of role playing themselves!
- Explore what is acceptable and what isn’t; intent versus impact; and both the subtle, and not so subtle, behaviours we see play out in the workplace
- Be immersed in an interactive learning experience that engages hearts and minds, and sticks in the long-term memory
Don't Just Take Our Word For It
Nina Darling
UoP SHCP Teaching Fellow, University of Portsmouth“The course which Paula provided was really engaging and nicely presented. The use of the actors was particularly good and actually bought the whole thing to life and made it really valuable learning. Thank you very much – it was fantastic!”
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