E, D & I Diagnostic and Audit

A full in-depth review and analysis of the 7 key pillars that drive E, D &I across your business.

  • First impressions
  • Culture
  • Talent Attraction
  • Progression and succession
  • Retention
  • Community and Social Responsibility

Employee Resource Groups – setting them up for success.

  • Where is the value in Employee Resource Groups
  • What guiderails should each group have in place and why – Understanding the ‘why, the how, the what’ of your employee network groups and understanding how beneficial it can be to work in collaboration with other staff networks in your organisation.
  • How do you align with an overall business or people strategy
  • How to avoid making your ERG exclusive
  • Inclusive communications – making sure that inclusion is at the heart of your communication style
  • Stakeholder management – building your networks that have influence and inspire stakeholders
  • How to make your meetings inclusive, where everyone has a voice and feels listened to

Creating inclusive communications

  • How can our workplace be more inclusive?
  • Scene setting: your communication is making an impact – is it the right one?
  • Avoiding cultural stereotypes
  • How to communicate across cultures and a global landscape
  • Strategies to tackle inappropriate language and behaviour.
  • 5 questions which enable you to create inclusive communications.
  • Strategies for inclusive, effective communication (personally and in our workplace)
  • Aligning all DE&I communications with the wider organisational strategy and values

Unconscious bias, the biggest barrier to inclusion

  • Understanding what unconscious bias is and why we all have it
  • Awareness and acknowledgement of how it plays out in day-to-day life
  • The most common types of bias and how our biases are formed from an early age
  • When bias is ingrained in your business, and you don’t know it
  • How our biases can affect our daily decision making
  • Building awareness of our impact on others
  • Practical tips for the workplace and individuals to reduce bias

Understanding Equity, Diversity and Inclusion – introductory session

  • Understanding how ED&I is ever present in our lives and how the last 5 years have shifted the narrative.
  • How to be mindful of both visible and invisible diversity traits
  • Understanding of different types of discrimination and privilege and how they relate to intersectionality.
  • An awareness of anti-discrimination law including general guidance and understanding of protected characteristics in the UK and legislation across the globe
  • The blurring of identifiers as we recognise them
  • Strategies everyone can take away to be more inclusive both personally and professionally.
  • Individual responsibility to Equality, Equity, and the removal of barriers

How to implement Inclusive recruitment

  • The benefits of a recruiting a diverse workforce
  • Practical tips on how to use inclusive language and eliminate bias in job adverts and recruitment campaigns.
  • Scoping roles for the ‘add’ not just the ‘fit’.
  • Should you set targets, the pros and cons.
  • How to shop differently – how and where to attract a diverse candidate pool.
  • The common hiring biases and how to reduce them in shortlisting and interviews.
  • Inclusive interviewing techniques.
  • Exploring the benefits and pitfalls of psychometric testing, presentations, and assessments.
  • Shortlisting processes and inclusive onboarding.