Overview
With the increase in global migration Inclusive leadership is emerging as a unique and critical capability helping organisations understand, appreciate, and interact with diverse customers, markets, ideas, and talent.  Cultivating a sense of inclusiveness manifests in a leader's visible awareness of bias.  But to fully capitalize on their cognizance of bias, leaders also must express both humility and empathy.  This course explores organisational practices that can help leaders become more inclusive and enhance the performance of their teams.

Course Aims

Create a safe learning environment to explore the question: What is an Inclusive Leader.

Understand what is meant by Cultural Competence

Develop an understanding of difference between diversity, non-inclusion, and genuine inclusion. 

Helping each team member apply principles of empowerment.

How Inclusive leaders can build a unified commitment

How to create a collaborative climate

How to create an environment where Open Communication can flourish.

Course Content

What is an inclusive leader?

What makes an inclusive Leader

The role of reflection

Principles of empowerment

Vulnerability leading to strength

Cultural competence

Inclusive recruitment

Effective collaboration

Authentic and inclusive language

Applying corporate citizenship.

This course is available as a half or full-day session.

Overview
This course is designed to explore the sensitive and emotive subject of suicide.

It's impact on individuals, families, and communities.  It explores the often traumatic and devastating effect on an organisation when a member of that organisation takes their own life.  It looks at ways to increase understanding, recognise warning signs and providing support. 
Course Aims

Gain a comprehensive understanding of the prevalence of suicide and its impact on organisations, individuals, families, and communities.  Become familiar with the research linking Adverse Childhood Experiences to suicide ideation.

Understand the relationship between self-destructive behaviours and suicidal thoughts.

Learn how to create safe and open communication environments to empower employees to speak up about their mental health challenges.

Recognise the importance of collaboration and establish supportive networks within the business community.

Course Content

Understanding Suicide Prevalence

Recognising the scope and impact of suicide

Understanding the Link Between Self-destructive behaviour and Suicide Ideation

Empowering employees to Speak Up

The importance of open communication and safe spaces

Recognising warning signs and how to respond.

This course is available as a half or full-day session.

Overview
It does not matter where you are in your life, adversity and uncertainty can often be just around the corner.  How do we deal with stress and hardship and how quickly can we recover from setbacks? The answer is resilience.  Resilience is the ability to recover from the inevitable difficult experiences that life presents to us.  This course is designed to help you explore and develop the art of resilience.  The course provides strategies you can use to navigate change and be better able to handle challenges both at work and in your personal life.

Course Aims
Create a safe learning environment to explore the question: What is an Ally.
Understand what is meant by "Resilience."
Identify the key features of resilience.
Explore resilience, wellbeing, and positive mental health
Understand the techniques for growing your resilience.
Appreciate why resilience is so important right now.

Course Content

What is resilience?
Exploring stress, anxiety, and depression.
Why is resilience important?
Are some people born with resilience?
Are resilient people natural optimists?
Three characteristics you must have to be resilient?
Four areas of training that can improve your resilience, enhance your quality of life, and help decrease your stress.
Developing a long term plan to improve your resilience.
Resilience in the workplace
Takeaways for immediate actions
Reflections

This course is available as a half or full-day session.

Overview
Allyship is complex and is very focused on constant learning.  It's not just a buzzword (although sometimes it can feel like it).  An ally is often defined as someone who is not a member of a marginalised group but wants to support and take action to help others in that group.  Allyship in the workplace is crucial for inclusion and equality.  Being an ally is important and should be taken to your workplace.  Whether you're an employee, team leader, manager, or director - you need to be an ally for those around you.  This course is designed to explore authentic allyship and help, all of us, become better allies.

Course Aims
Create a safe learning environment to explore the question: What is an Ally.
Understand what is meant by "Allyship"
Understanding why we need allies.?
Explore the various types of allyship.Avoiding performative allyship. 
Practical advice to be a better ally in the workplace.

Course Content
What is Allyship?
Why we need Allies - Setting the scene
Do You Consider Yourself to be an Ally?
Understanding the Core principles
What is the spectrum of allyship?
Understanding Privilege
What makes a good Ally?
Pitfalls and the Allyship Iceberg
Allyship in a corporate setting
Takeaways for immediate actions
Reflections

This course is available as a half or full-day session.

Overview

This course brings together elements from the equality, diversity, and inclusion workshops.  However, it's focus is very much on understanding ourselves and what motivates us.  It explores culture, bias, assumptions and asks the question Why? Why did I make that assumption? Why do I accept this stereotype and yet I reject that one? Why did I ask that question? (Microaggression) or use this type of language? Why did this "trigger" me? It explores ways to enrich our understanding of ourselves and be better able to interact effectively with others.

Course Aims

Create a safe learning environment to explore the question: What is identity, and why we are the way we are.
Understand what is meant by "Culture"?
How Authentic leaders embrace Cultural Competence.
How to create a collaborative climate
How to create an environment where Open Communication can flourish.
How we can foster better understanding and appreciation of difference.
How actions and behaviours can avoid misunderstanding and improve cross cultural interactions.

Course Content

What is identity?
Why we are who we are?
Understand, appreciate, and interact.
What is culture?Managing difference.
How attitudes and behaviours can lead to misunderstanding.The journey towards inclusive and effective cross-cultural interaction.

This course is available as a half or full-day session

Overview

Many companies utilize Teambuilding exercises in the hope of improving communication, facilitating bonding between work colleagues, and generally encouraging more effective working.  This course explores how Authentic leaders use sport and a sporting mindset to achieve greater understanding for both managers and employees.  The course provides strategies to help motivate and focus on success as well as achieving balance and resilience when things go wrong.

Course Aims

Create a safe learning environment to explore the question: What is an Authentic Leader.
Understand what is meant by "An effective Team"?
Helping each team member to give their best efforts.
How Authentic leaders can build a unified commitment.
How to create a collaborative climate
How to create an environment where Open Communication can flourish.
How sportspeople respond to winning and losing and what we can all learn
Explore Managing or Coaching is there a difference?

Course Content

Does Team Building Work?
Do Sports Stars bother with Teambuilding?
What makes a team?
Does a team need a leader?
What makes an Authentic Leader?
Motivation and where to find it.
Communication and working better together.
Teamwork and boosting team performance.

This course is available as a half or full-day session

Overview

The 2020 Sexual Harassment Survey found that women, young people, ethnic minorities,
LGBT individuals, and those with disabilities are more likely to experience sexual harassment.  41% Black and minority ethnic workers have faced racism at work in the last five years.  27% experienced racist jokes or "banter" 26% were made to feel uncomfortable at work due to people using stereotypes or commenting on their appearance.  In this course we will explore how a toxic workplace culture come about.  How to identify it and eradicate it. 

Course Aims

Create a safe learning environment to explore the question: What is identity, and why we are the way we are.
Understand what is meant by workplace culture.
What's wrong with a bit of "banter?"How to challenge inappropriate language and behaviour.Understanding Microaggressions
How to create an inclusive climate

Course Content

Overview of legislative background
The types of sexual harassment - Physical, Verbal, and non-verbal.  More insidious behaviours.
Being aware of our own behaviours.  Our role as trainers in preventing it.  Setting ground rules. 
How to support those who experience it.

This course is available as a half or full-day session

Overview

This course includes the important information you will need in order to meet accessible information standards.  It will also provide you with the tools needed to create accessible and inclusive documents and online communications. 
This course also explores the question of "What is inclusive communication", "Why it matters" and explains the "Business Case for Accessibility."

Course Aims

To explore, what is "Inclusive communication?"
Examine the principles of Inclusive Communication
To make the Business Case for Accessibility
Review Legal requirements and definitions.
How to effectively ask people if they have any information or communication needs and find out how to meet their needs.
How to record needs clearly and in a set way

Course Content

How to create Accessible Documents
How to create Easy Read/ Writing Plain Language Documents
Making Word documents or PowerPoint presentations
accessible, including correct implementation of
Text alternatives for graphics.Exporting to other files formats such as PDF and what needs to be considered in order to maintain accessibility.
Website accessibility - Not just about "Alt tags".
Captioning online videos
Providing MS word versions of existing programmes for users of screen readers
Commissioning Audio Descriptions of information
Offering BSL interpretation for users.

This course is available as a half or full-day session

Overview

The workshop explores how society views disability today.  We will be looking at the harmful stereotypes disabled people face and how negative language frames the narrative.  We will look at the many barriers and challenges that the disability community have to deal with.  We will then examine our own attitudes and bias, and how we can engage, interact and engage authentically with people with a disability. 

Course Aims

Build on your existing.  knowledge, expertise, and skills
Increase your understanding of disability issues.
Understand the stigma around disability.
Become more comfortable and authentic when interacting.

Course Content

What is a disability?How we think about disability?Medical vs Social Model?
Legal duty
Language frames the narrative
Practical advice on how to help.Who are you calling disabled?

This course is available as a half or full day session

Overview

A basic introduction to the subject of equality, diversity, and inclusion.  It includes analysis of these key themes and what they mean in practice.  It will include an overview of equalities legislation, unconscious bias, and cultural competency.  It's an entry level introductory course particularly useful for those who have no previous equalities training experience or are requiring a re-fresher.

Course Aims

Create a safe learning environment to explore attitudes, beliefs and values.
An open, reflective, and objective space
Allow time for interactive discussion and self-reflection.
Explore equalities legislation, bias, and assumptions.
Help to make equality, diversity, equity, and inclusion relevant to you. 

Course Content

Overview of equalities law, duties, and responsibilities
Definitions of terms including direct and indirect discrimination, discrimination by association and perception, harassment, and victimisation
Definitions of reasonable adjustments, and occupational requirements
Language and its impact
Why representation matters
Introduction to cultural competence
Introduction to unconscious bias

This course is available as a half or full-day session

Overview

This course is designed specifically to help managers recognise the common mental health issues that can affect workers and to help them Improve confidence.  By encouraging open conversations around mental health in the workplace, managers will be able to better support staff, reduce presenteeism and help manage sickness absence. 

Course Aims

Create a safe learning environment to have an open conversation around mental health at work.Provide a framework for understanding the most common mental health issues and how they might surface in the workplace.Give managers confidence to begin and maintain conversations about mental healthEmpower managers in to build supported, motivated, and committed teams.Help managers understand the boundaries and limitations.
Discuss primary interventions or, how to keep employees well at work and in work.

Course Content

Overview of Equality Act 2010 as it applies to mental healthWhat are the common types of mental health conditions.  Ways managers can support good mental health in the workplace and explore issues around why mental health is not discussed at workHow managers can start and maintain conversations about mental health.Practical ways managers can support a colleague, promoting a healthy workplace.
Examine why workplace adjustments are sometimes needed and what is meant by an adjustment.
Primary and secondary interventions.  Where to sign post employees for external support.

This course is available as a half or full-day session