Developing and Integrating your Diversity Strategy - Make diversity part of your organisations DNA

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Developing and Integrating your Diversity Strategy - Make diversity part of your organisations DNA

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Course duration: 1 day.

Understanding and implementing diversity goes beyond legal compliance and employment best practice. It is an effective means of engaging and motivating staff, and establishing and developing customer and client relationships. In today's business climate, an effective and well-integrated diversity strategy will set you apart from your competition - both in the war for talent and with your new and established client base.

This innovative, business-focused seminar provides guidance on how to design and integrate an effective diversity strategy for your organisation and how ensure this is streamlined and embedded at all levels. You will learn how to: conduct a d…

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Overview

Course duration: 1 day.

Understanding and implementing diversity goes beyond legal compliance and employment best practice. It is an effective means of engaging and motivating staff, and establishing and developing customer and client relationships. In today's business climate, an effective and well-integrated diversity strategy will set you apart from your competition - both in the war for talent and with your new and established client base.

This innovative, business-focused seminar provides guidance on how to design and integrate an effective diversity strategy for your organisation and how ensure this is streamlined and embedded at all levels. You will learn how to: conduct a diversity analysis of your business; get buy-in from your senior team; communicate the strategy for maximum impact and engagement; proof your policies, practices and procedures effectively; utilise the strategy in your recruitment process; and measure its impact.

Is it right for me?

Designed for organisations that:

  • Are putting a diversity initiative in place for the first time
  • Looking to refresh their diversity strategy and initiatives
  • Seeking new ideas for an established strategy and initiative
  • Want to deepen their understanding of how to embed their diversity policies and aspirations

This seminar is designed for HR professionals and directors, marketing, communication, business development and customer services managers, internal and external advisors and consultants and everyone with a stake in delivering diversity-proofed policies, procedures and processes.

What will I learn?

By the end of this seminar you will be able to:

  • Learn the skills required to assess policies and procedures through case study analysis and interactive discussion
  • Learn how to design and integrate a tailor made diversity strategy throughout your business
  • Get to grips with crucial aspects of diversity and learn the importance of embedding diversity into your organisation's policies, procedures and practices
  • Get key insights into appropriate assessment methods to measure the impact of your diversity strategy

What will it cover?

Developing a diversity strategy - first things first

  • Assessing the diversity of your business : where are you now and where do you want to be?
  • Implementing a diversity audit – what to assess, monitor and analyse
  • Which aspects of diversity are strong within the business? And which need work?
  • Going beyond legal compliance and creating a culture of inclusiveness

Understanding the business case for diversity – and getting the necessary buy-in from your top team

  • An overview of today’s market place – and where you fit in to this
  • The war for talent
  • Evolving customer and supplier demands and relationships : what does this mean for organisational diversity?
  • HR or leadership driven: where does accountability for the diversity strategy sit?
  • Identifying and overcoming the challenges driving diversity forward

Interactive exercise: a diversity analysis and checklist

Participants will have the opportunity to critically assess diversity levels in a number of areas including talent attraction, promotion, who’s leaving and why, maximising the leverage from your diverse workforce to gain maximum value from people’s perspectives and ideas.

Designing a diversity strategy for your business

  • Linking your diversity strategy to business strategy and objectives
  • Rolling out a diversity strategy at individual, group and organisational level
  • How do you mainstream diversity into your business strategy and operation?
  • Knowing what you want to achieve: positioning your business on the continuum between compliance and best practice
  • Making it flexible – one size does not fit all!

Dealing with challenges and resistance

  • Understanding resistance
  • Using change management techniques to drive progress
  • Knowledge is power

Communication and engagement

  • Articulating your diversity vision and mission throughout the business
  • How can you engage all staff in the diversity initiative and reap the benefits of employee participation
  • Using motivators and incentives and celebrating the successes
  • Changing behaviours
  • Using diversity champions to encapsulate diversity principles across the business

Diversity proofing your policies, practices and procedures

  • Identifying which key policies need changing to support your diversity strategy
  • Putting into place new policies and procedures
  • Training line management on the implementation of amended policies
  • Communicating your menu of policies, practices and procedures at all levels of the organisation
  • Anti-discrimination legislation: keeping yourself and policies up to date

How to utilise diversity to make the most of your talent pool

  • Maximising the diversity of your business and tapping into new markets
  • What is the business imperative for diversity from a retention perspective?
  • Your employer brand – is this helping or hindering your access and uptake of diverse talent
  • Integrating key tools and techniques into your recruitment methods to tap into a diverse talent pool and successfully attract top talent
Assessing the impact of your diversity strategy
  • How do you know how well you are doing?
  • How do you define impact success? Measuring the return on investment of your diversity and equality initiatives
  • What tools and techniques can you use to measure the impact?
  • The global perspective: balancing commercial, moral and legal requirements

A forward looking approach – using what you’ve got

  • Experiments and quick-wins
  • Managing diversity successfully : nurturing creativity and innovation to improve performance
  • The role of training and education
  • Changing mindsets – an process in progress
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