Having a diverse workforce doesn't just happen on its own.
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
What You'll Learn
- Define what diversity and inclusion mean in a workplace context
- Build diverse teams and create more inclusive recruiting and promotion practices
- Identify systemic discrimination in hiring practices, training policies, and advertising
- 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
Key Takeaways
- A diverse workforce does not happen on its own and requires deliberate effort and diligence to develop.
- Creating a diverse workforce and practicing inclusion can increase innovation, provide a competitive edge, and produce more engaged employees.
- Systemic discrimination can appear in a company's hiring practices, training policies, and advertising.
- Building a more inclusive organization may require overhauling some or many existing business processes, operations, policies, and procedures.
- Examining your own unconscious bias is part of helping create a more diverse and inclusive workplace.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does this course cover?
It covers what diversity and inclusion mean, how to build diverse teams, the benefits of a diverse workforce, how to identify and address systemic discrimination in business processes, the role of a Chief Diversity Officer, unconscious bias, more inclusive recruiting and promotion practices, and how to set diversity and inclusion metrics and goals.
Who is this course for?
It is aimed at people working to engage with and develop a diverse and inclusive workplace, including those looking to change business operations, policies, and procedures and to give more underrepresented people a seat at the table.
What skills or outcomes will I gain?
You will learn to define diversity and inclusion, build a diverse team, name the benefits of a diverse workforce, recognize systemic discrimination, identify business operations and policies that can be made more inclusive, understand the role of a Chief Diversity Officer, address your own unconscious bias, and set diversity and inclusion goals and metrics.
What topics are included in the lessons?
Lessons include an Introduction, Systemic Discrimination in Business Processes, What is Diversity?, Benefits of Encouraging Equality and Diversity, Chief Diversity Officer, Recruiting, Promotions, Essential Components of an Effective Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, Diversity Best Practices, and a Conclusion.
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Creating a Culture of Diversity and Inclusion Welcome to KnowledgeCity's course, Creating a Culture of Diversity and Inclusion. According to recent research conducted by Glassdoor, 67% of job candidates want to join a diverse team. As a leader in your organization, employees look to you to create a culture where they can thrive. An organization's diversity and inclusion efforts primarily fall on the shoulders of its CEO. This course is designed to help you understand the importance of diversity and inclusion, learn methods for building diverse teams, discover ways you can implement inclusion strategies, and understand how diversity and inclusion drive company culture. Before you can create a culture of diversity and inclusion, you first need to understand the business processes that can be problem areas. So let's get started by discussing systemic discrimination.
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