Diversity Awareness in the Boardroom

Course aim
As businesses evolve in a dynamic world, it is vital to avoid discrimination in the workplace, allowing you to maximise opportunities and understand your legal obligations.

This course will explain how discrimination can not only adversely affect your company’s reputation, but by harnessing the power of positive processes, you can help achieve your businesses objectives.

Who should attend?
This module is designed to promote and support diversity on the Board, which is intrinsically about valuing everyone in the organisation as an individual. To reap the benefits of a diverse workforce, it is vital to have an inclusive environment.

What to expect
This course provides a unique opportunity to gain a clearer insight into your boardroom role and responsibilities within diversity and inclusivity.

It will also enable examination of your influence and effectiveness and how these support the broader corporate aims of your organisation.

Programme
This course will cover the following:

• Introduction to the different dimensions of diversity
• Diversity self-awareness
• Levering diversity in a competitive arena
• Unconscious bias and uncertainty
• Stereotypes: prejudicial and perception
• Understanding cultural diversity for global success
• Learning different working styles
• Recognising what motivates people
• Ways in which participants can create an inclusive environment
• Develop individual and group action plans and create a more diverse and inclusive workplace
• Understand the laws behind diversity

Course objectives
Participation on this course will enable you to:

• Make you aware of your responsibilities and corporate governance expectations within diversity and inclusivity
• Understand cultural diversity for global success
• Learn different working styles
• Understand what good board performance looks like
• Build the Board of the future