Managing Diversity in the Workplace Course – CMI Level 5
Diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI) is now a mainstream management role being a core competence for managers and leaders throughout organisations. DEI is a source of genuine concern for employees as well as a source of lasting competitive advantage in the workforce market of today.
Our Managing Diversity in the Workplace Course provides a vital space for leaders, managers, team leaders, DEI champions, freedom to speak up guardians, staff network leads and allies at all levels to gain invaluable insights from topic experts into new ways of working and the latest research that can be applied instantly on returning to your organisation. The course will give you essential skills and confidence to impactfully make a difference in managing diversity in the workplace.
The course will touch on all the differing characteristics of diverse workforces, and the considerations for a manager in a workplace in valuing difference, from the legal framework, understanding unconscious bias, challenging non-inclusive behaviour, allyships and becoming an active bystander, moving from equality to equity and more.
Through the knowledge and experience of the course leader and your peers, you will be encouraged to consider your own role, discussing relevant issues, challenges and solutions.
All participants in the course will benefit from the highly collaborative and participative delivery style, and all will leave with enhanced clarity about the personal role they play and practical tools to implement to manage diversity in the workplace harnessing the benefits for their organisation.
Course Summary
CMI Level 5 Award in Managing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion - Optional
Duration:
3 Day
Delivery Method and Price:
Virtual Classroom:
£1,400
About Us
About the Programme
This course is ideally suited to;
- Practicing or aspiring managers and leaders who want to learn how to apply the principles of inclusion to their management style .
- DEI champions, Freedom to Speak Up Guardians or staff network leads who want to develop wider and deeper understanding with tools that can be implemented back in the workplace.
- Employee representatives or trade union representatives.
- Individuals seen as a champion and would like to have a better understanding of DEI.
- Practitioners with basic knowledge of DEI who want to deepen their knowledge and understand tools to practically implement.
- Practitioners who will benefit from a highly collaborative and participative delivery style.
Session 1
DEI as a Business Imperative
- Welcome & introductions
- Distinguishing ‘equity’, ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion’
- Legal overview
- The business case - and beyond
- The role of champions
- Leveraging the power of staff networks
- Data driven approaches to managing diversity in the workplace
Session 2
The Personal Skills Toolkit
- The role of the manager in DEI; understanding reasonable adjustments
- Aspects of ‘diversity’
- Linking diversity and performance
- Exploring bias
- Challenging non-inclusive behaviour; understanding ‘microincivilities and microagressions’’ and how to tackle them.
- Developing conversational skills – scenario exercises
- Helpful hints in ‘courageous conversations’
Session 3
Towards Inclusive Cultures
- The traits of inclusive leadership
- Creating psychological safety in teams
- Mapping development of inclusive leadership skills
- The hallmarks of inclusive cultures
- Approaches to engaging staff & stakeholders in DEI
- Next steps – putting this into practice.
- Round-up and close
CMI Level 5 Award in Managing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
This qualification is aimed at practising or aspiring managers and leaders who are typically accountable to a senior manager or business owner. It is aimed at enabling practising or aspiring managers to understand the business case for equality, diversity and inclusion and the role of managers in creating inclusive cultures.
Delegates will be required to complete one 3500 – 4000 word assignment that requires taught theory to be applied to the organisational context.
- 506: Managing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
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As part of your course fee, you are given free and unlimited access to post-classroom tutorials. These are organised monthly and run by CMI qualified tutors to help guide learners through the assignment writing phase.
Please take a look at our CMI FAQs to find out more about how the qualification works.
Fitzroy Andrew
Tutor
Fitz’s 45-year career encompasses director and CEO-level experience since the mid-1990s, award-winning research, and strategic leadership and governance roles with agencies tackling some of society’s most complex challenges including sustainability, community development, and youth violence and knife crime.
His outlook combines enduring and related interests in leadership and inclusion, grounded in a belief that they are foundational to each other – creating inclusion requires leadership, and leadership at its best requires an inclusive approach. Fitz’s work incorporates open and bespoke programme design and facilitation, alongside leadership coaching.
Fitz continues to play a significant role at INPD as a key subject lead on inclusion, evolving a philosophy which goes beyond a more commonplace ‘EDI’ narrative.
Our dedicated In-House Training team can work with you to create a tailored training course that creates an optimal learning experience. Our bespoke built training programmes are designed around your needs and allow you to meet the specific requirements of your business.
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