Diversity & Inclusion’s Importance to the Compliance Sector

You might be thinking, why is inclusion and diversity relevant to my role? Inclusion impacts every person and every area of our workforce strategy. Inclusion provides the backdrop to innovative growth.

We need to be mindful about how compliance frameworks are implemented into workforce strategy. This impacts the cultural psychological safety we create.

Building healthy dynamics starts with knowing your team – understanding the preferences, needs, and motivations of individuals helps us maximise strengths, receive and respond to feedback, efficiently and effectively, and open a vulnerability that allows us to readily see mistakes as opportunities to learn.

But how is this achieved? Find out in our Inclusion and Diversity Workshop!

In this workshop we will:

• Explore methods to eliminate bias and avoid echo chambers that can limit thinking
• Learn about hollistic strategies to discover and engage with a new and diverse client base
• Maximise the strengths of your workforce by understanding the value of their differences
• Adopt inclusive frameworks to support your workforce to thrive

Inclusion 101

Definitions and Concepts

In this introductory module we will explore commonly used vocabulary and phrases. We will explore bias, how it forms, and ways to reduce and mitigate its impact on our behaviour in the workplace.

We will begin to explore intersectionality and reflect on our personal multidimensional cultural identity and how it shapes our perspective on the world. We will learn to seize opportunities to mitigate bias, leading to improved decision-making, better communication, and effective engagement. This module will lay out the terminology and approach to enable self-reflection and understanding of cultural development which we will build on throughout the rest of the course.

Inclusive Communication and Effective Engagement

In this module we will highlight the strengths of inclusive communication. We will begin to explore how to deliver transparent and accessible messaging in ways that effectively and efficiently capture and engage our desired audience. We will examine the impact of the different communication approaches on team dynamics. We will look at ways to build our skillsets to demonstrate and encourage active engagement within our workforce. We will discuss strategies to equip our workforces to challenge leadership, promoting interpersonal risk and psychological safety.

Inclusive Culture and Leadership

We will explore the impact of leadership behaviour on your team dynamics and client relationships. In this module we will learn and begin to develop leadership behaviours that instil psychological safety. Build a tangible new skillset necessary to establish effective leadership behaviours, empower and encourage your workforce to respect, value, and embrace difference. We will explore and effectively contextualise and learn how to apply simple processes to challenge the status quo and establish the trust and agreeable disagreement needed to truly innovate.

We will discover tools, techniques, and frameworks to support a consistent yet flexible and fair strategic approach to feedback systems to generate equitable opportunities for all to thrive. We will look at building policy and structures from a coproductive approach to ensure good mental health and employee wellbeing is integrated and centralised into strategic systems.

Participant Profile (Bullet-points)

The programme is ideal for:

• C-Level Executives and Senior leaders and Managers
• Inclusion and Diversity Managers
• Internal Communication and Engagement Leaders and Managers
• Recruitment and Talent Acquisition Managers and Consultants

This course is ideal for teams, and Individuals, wanting to build an in depth understanding of inclusive communication, begin to develop inclusive leadership skills and the skills required to emotionally connect, actively engage & recognise the power of diversity within an inclusive environment.

Industry Expert | Sarah Burell

Sarah is an inclusion specialist. She equips organisations with the tools, awareness, knowledge, and insight needed to enable them to practice inclusive leadership and implement inclusive processes, utilising an intersectional, holistic approach to respect, value, and embrace difference. She collaborates with clients to facilitate equity, inclusive growth and cultural transformation, enabling true psychological safety, and empowering every individual to thrive as their most authentic selves.