Course Description
Having a diverse workforce doesn't just happen on its own. This course on “Creating a Culture of Diversity and Inclusion” will show you ways to engage with and develop a diverse and inclusive workplace. It will also give you strategies on how to root out the systemic discrimination in your business processes that is keeping your company from embracing the many benefits of a diverse culture. Committing to change takes a lot of effort and diligence, but this course will give you a roadmap to get there.
Creating a diverse workforce and practicing inclusion is beneficial for many different reasons: increased innovation, a competitive edge, and more engaged employees, among other positives. But you may need to overhaul some or many of your business processes along the way. This course will show you where to look for what’s called “systemic discrimination,” or the ways in which your business has been discriminatory in its hiring practices, training policies, and even advertising. This course will also give you guidance on how to build diverse teams, information about what the role of a Chief Diversity Officer should be, and how you can help by examining your own unconscious bias. Make sure that your business isn’t getting in its own way as you embark upon building diverse teams and giving more underrepresented people a seat at the table.
Learning Objectives:
- Answer the question “What is diversity?”
- Answer the question “What is inclusion?”
- Learn how to build a diverse team
- Name the benefits of having a diverse workforce
- Understand systemic discrimination in your workplace
- Identify business operations, policies, and procedures that can be changed to be more inclusive
- Understand the role of a Chief Diversity Officer
- Identify areas for personal growth around unconscious bias
- Learn how to create more diverse practices for recruiting and promoting
- Learn how to set goals around diversity and inclusion metrics
Skills You Will Learn
- Diversity Awareness
- Diversity And Inclusion
- Diversity Management
- Diversity Strategies
- Diversity Training
- Workplace Diversity
What You'll Learn
- Define what diversity and inclusion mean in the workplace
- Build diverse teams and create more diverse practices for recruiting and promoting
- Identify systemic discrimination in your business operations, policies, and procedures
- Understand the role of a Chief Diversity Officer
- Examine your own unconscious bias to find areas for personal growth
- Set goals around diversity and inclusion metrics and name the benefits of a diverse workforce
Key Takeaways
- Having a diverse workforce does not happen on its own and requires deliberate effort and diligence.
- Creating a diverse workforce and practicing inclusion can increase innovation, provide a competitive edge, and produce more engaged employees.
- Systemic discrimination can appear in hiring practices, training policies, and even advertising, and may require overhauling business processes.
- Examining your own unconscious bias is part of building diverse teams and giving underrepresented people a seat at the table.
- The course provides a roadmap covering recruiting, promotions, the Chief Diversity Officer role, and diversity best practices.
Frequently Asked Questions
What will this course teach me to do?
It shows you ways to engage with and develop a diverse and inclusive workplace, gives strategies to root out systemic discrimination in your business processes, and provides a roadmap covering building diverse teams, recruiting, promotions, the role of a Chief Diversity Officer, and examining your own unconscious bias.
Why does the course say diversity and inclusion are beneficial?
The course explains that creating a diverse workforce and practicing inclusion is beneficial for reasons including increased innovation, a competitive edge, and more engaged employees.
What is systemic discrimination as covered in this course?
The course describes systemic discrimination as the ways in which a business has been discriminatory in its hiring practices, training policies, and even advertising, and shows you where to look for it.
What topics are covered in the lessons?
Lessons include an Introduction, Systemic Discrimination in Business Processes, What is Diversity?, Benefits of Encouraging Equality and Diversity, The Chief Diversity Officer, Recruiting, Promotions, Essential Components of an Effective Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, Diversity Best Practices, and a Conclusion.
