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The Business Case for Diversity - How inclusive is your organisation?

Overview

Do you want to be an employer of choice?

Our training can help you to understand your workforce and help your teams work more effectively and efficiently together.

Understanding the diversity of your workforce can help to build better teams to deliver your business objectives.

When you get diversity right you can gain the competitive edge.

Employ the right talent and build an inclusive workforce for success.

What are the aims and objectives of the module?

Aim: To give senior managers a clear over view of the business benefits of the equality diversity and inclusion agenda and how it impacts on business results.

Objectives – by the end of the module you will:

• Understand the business drivers for diversity in the workplace
• Understand your legal responsibilities, particularly where the organisation is covered by the public sector equality  duties
• Apply an analysis tool to enable the organisation to create an action plan as part of its business strategy
• Understand the threats, risks and consequences of getting it wrong.

Areas covered

• Defining Diversity, Equality and Inclusion
• The Business Case
• The Legal Journey
• Values, Attitudes and Behaviours
• Organisational Responsibilities
• Dealing with inappropriate behaviour

Included in the programme is the use of benchmark or audit tool standards to help you assess where your organisations is and identify where you would like to be

Using information to identify goals and measures of success

Who is the programme aimed at?

All senior managers and Board level members who want to lead the organisation to become an exemplar and who want to add value to their business through their people.

Benefits

Getting diversity right within any organisation can improve:

• Innovation
• Motivate existing employees
• Improve productivity
• Improve reputation
• Increase commitment
• Reduce turnover
• Reduce recruitment costs
• Create an inclusive working environment

Evaluation and Action Planning

Proposed approach to impact evaluation will also support the concept of sustainability by using a 3 stage model of evaluation.

• Immediate reaction
• 3 month review – progress against objectives, issues raised and experiences
• 6 month review – measures of success
  • has the attitude and behaviour of the workforce changed,
  • is diversity an integral part of business activity

The organisation can choose how it evaluates the impact of the programme across the organisation.  In addition to specific impact and evaluation, questions can be built into to other organisational reviews such as Employee Surveys to measure the impact of the Equality Suite on your organisational culture.