Equal Opportunities and Diversity Overview for Employees
These workshops and awareness sessions are tailored to the needs of each organisation. They aim to raise awareness of equality and diversity, explore how beliefs, values and attitudes drive behaviour, understand what ‘good practice’ means
for the organisation, and to recognise individual and organisational responsibilities under equality legislation. It covers prejudice and stereotyping, the differences between equality and diversity, an overview of equality legislation and the ‘six major strands.’
Equality and Diversity Training for Managers and those in a Supervisory Role
The aims are to build on the equal opportunities/diversity sessions above and help managers and those in a supervisory role to understand the responsibilities of the line manager in terms of the legal and organisational framework and embed good diversity practice into their own areas of operation. They will consider the impact in their areas of the six major strands of equality and the broader strands of diversity, and address the practical impact of appointing people to teams, and their management.
Employee Awareness Events on Health, Mental Health and Disability
These are specific awareness events designed to help employees and managers understand the specific issues of health, mental health and disability. They will be tailored to meet the needs of the organisation.
They can include:
- Mental health and wellbeing at work
- Supporting people with specific difficulties, such as dyslexia, learning difficulties, depression and bi-polar disorders
- Managing people with disabilities in relation to their workplace, and in relation to the Disability Discrimination Act
- Stress management.
Staff Selection and Recruitment and Equal Opportunities
This is for people who are involved in recruitment and selection. The aims are to ensure that by the end of the workshop participants will understand the law relating to the selection process, have a better awareness of discriminatory pitfalls, be capable of ensuring objective selection and understand how to produce and retain structured, contemporaneous interview notes and evidence of objectivity.
Awareness Events for Employees (Brown Bag Sessions)
These can be from 1 hour to half a day, explaining the right for all employees to expect to be treated fairly and with respect, the expected ‘appropriate’ behaviour at work, and what is inappropriate, and how to raise issues if they feel they are bullied/harassed, or if they feel others are being treated inappropriately. These events try to win over the ‘hearts of minds’ of employees, and in the half a day sessions include inter-active methods as well as group discussions and exercises. One hour events are more tutor-led with limited discussion and employee involvement. Course length and content will be agreed with the organisation to meet its own specific needs and objectives.