Diversity and power workplace training

Foster practical confidence and competence in your staff to honour the diversity in groups and harness the wisdom it offers.

Diversity and Inclusion Training

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Duration

2 days

Location

In person at your workplace; or online.

Does your workplace need skills and awareness around diversity and inclusion?

Diversity is a complex arena, where we will never know all factors at play. Accordingly, our emphasis is in preparing people to understand the dynamics of diversity, and to use self-awareness and an array of attendant skills so diversity – in its many shapes and forms – can be welcomed, and then managed well.

While many of us see the need for working well with others, there can be unrecognised triggers that hold us back. Our training assists you when working with diversity and inclusion in understanding your own responses, where these are coming from, and the effect they have on your interactions with others. With greater self-awareness and increased emotional resilience, your staff have the opportunity to make the most of the wisdom that arises from differences in rank, power and diversity.

Why our diversity and inclusion training for your staff?

We deliver this training in-house, and can adapt the content to meet your organisation’s specific needs. We work with you to address specific issues or learning areas you require. We can offer input around these issues, including useful techniques, processes and some exercises.  Content is always related to people’s experience.

We engage participants with a range of learning tools – discussion, reflective activities and smaller group work. There will be ample time to address people’s challenges, with substantial time devoted to practice.

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What will participants learn?

  • Understanding the effects of rank, power & diversity in group dynamics

    This relates to the practical components of getting along together at work.

    This understanding is relevant to many areas including: giving and receiving workplace feedback; handling challenging conversations wisely; collaborative decision-making; and conflict resolution.

  • Understanding ourselves in groups and the role of the unconscious

    The more we understand our own inner ‘selves’ and their interplay, the better facilitators we will be.

    Components of this are:

    working on fears and other self-limiting messages that hold us back when working with others

    developing the emotional resilience to manage our own reactions when faced with challenging dynamics (and difference).

  • Essential principles of diversity

    When working with diversity, we need to have a strong, clear value base. We will look at:

    the central values and principles of diversity

    how diversity and inclusion can enable great outcomes when well facilitated – great minds think differently!

    the importance of compassion in facilitation, especially when there is potential conflict

    how diversity in groups can contribute to better relationships when it is named and discussed

  • Understanding diversity

    This is a complex arena. Depending on people’s interests, we could focus on the relevant points below:

    • understanding different perspectives

    • understanding how diversity is played out within various setting

    • understanding that we are guests in other people’s cultures

    • appreciating there is much we do not know about other cultures

    • dominant/non dominant groups and their effect on groups

    • encouraging and working with diversity

    • harnessing the strengths of diverse perspectives

    • understanding how our own rank effects our endeavours

    • dealing with myths and misunderstandings

    • embracing helpful attitudes to diversity

    • cultural awareness

    • working with diversity

    • communicating across differences

  • Diversity skills

    There are a range of micro skills essential to working with Diversity. Some of these skills will be familiar to you, some will be new. In this training, we will introduce a number of micro-skills. For example:

    • naming and normalising

    • validating

    • summarising

    • helping people hear each other

    • poking around

    • hearing and validating people’s contribution

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    • welcoming difference – facilitating strongly held differing views

    • dealing with unnamed dynamics