A diverse and inclusive workforce is a business and human imperative.

This five-part course covers how teams can develop, build and sustain business practices that embrace workplace diversity. No matter your career stage, future business growth and success depends upon embracing inclusion and eliminating bias and discrimination in business environments.

Consider this course as your guide to advancing meaningful and impactful diversity, equity, and inclusion practices. Learn to recognize key characteristics of DEI and how to create a healthy DEI culture. You will gain an understanding of implicit biases, how to recognize them in action, and ways you can develop an inclusion mindset. The course also defines micro-behaviours and how to address micro-aggressions.

A diverse and inclusive workforce has benefits ranging from improved wellness and personal health to engagement and community and innovation and creativity. Discover the benefits and power of inclusion and how companies can support inclusion from onboarding through to retirement. You will also learn how to leverage your unique talents, skills and contributions to become an ally and advocate for DEI within your workplace.

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Upon completion of this course, you will:

• Part 1: Workplace Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Action
  • Understand the core terminology of DEI.
  • Consider behaviours that signal a breakdown in achieving an inclusive culture.
  • Recognize elements that enable diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging to take root.
     
• Part 2: Moving from Bias to Inclusion in a DEI Journey
  • Identify the key characteristics of implicit bias.
  • Recognize common forms of bias and techniques to spot your own implicit biases.
  • Review best practices for using thoughtful inclusion when making decisions.
     
• Part 3: Recognizing and Addressing Micro-behaviours in the Workplace
  • Define a micro-aggression and recognize its key characteristics.
  • Understand the messages that are sent by micro-aggressions.
  • Learn effective techniques to help perfect your use of micro-inclusions.
     
• Part 4: Adopting an Inclusion Mindset at Work
  • Look at ways to encourage inclusive changes in your organization no matter what your role.
  • Identify strategies to overcome unconscious bias in the hiring process.
  • Examine the elements that show a commitment to cultural inclusion and overcoming systemic bias.
     
• Part 5: Becoming a DEI Ally and Agent for Change
  • Explore actions to build awareness of your personal values and social perspective.
  • Discover specific steps you can take to become a DEI change agent.
  • Learn methods to become a more inclusive communicator.