Hardwiring DEI into the Employee Lifecycle

Course Introduction

Bias can infiltrate each and every stage of an employee’s journey and, if left unchecked, it can hamper efforts to increase diversity and drive inclusion and belonging. It’s time to review our Employee Lifecycle through a DEI lens and make systemic and structural changes. But where do we start? Careful and considered analysis of people processes and systems can highlight disparities in data, or differences in outcomes, that reveal challenges and barriers which may have become ‘baked in’ to how we do things. This highly interactive workshop for HR practitioners, DEI practitioners and recruitment specialists will explore a range of important concepts, from equality vs equity to systemic bias. We will focus on five principles to mitigate bias and hardwire diversity in our people processes: Transparency Objectivity Consistency Measurement Accountability

What will participants learn?

Participants will consider how to apply these principles at different stages in the employee journey – from attraction and selection to assessment and promotion. We take a deep dive into some of the challenges and barriers to increasing diversity in hiring – from application to onboarding, with a strong focus on practical steps to de-biasing our processes and understanding how to mitigate the biases that cloud our judgement and impair our decisions.

Content

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The impact of bias on judgement and decision making
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What is systemic bias, and how does it differ from implicit or unconscious bias?
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Equality vs Equity, and the importance of focusing on fair outcomes
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How to mitigate bias in our people processes: 5 key principles
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Breakout discussion: participants select two stages in the employee lifecycle, exploring how bias can manifest itself and practical steps to hardwire DEI
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Scenario based whole group discussion
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Personal commitments and next steps

Working with Inclusive Group

Inclusive Group will work with you to understand the context for your workshop. This involves a 20-minute discovery call where we explore:

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The background and ‘cultural norms’ of this topic in your organisation
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An overview of the participant group(s)
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Scenarios or examples relevant to your organisation that we can use during the workshop
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Anything else pertaining to the successful delivery of the workshop

Details

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Virtual delivery via Inclusive Group Zoom or your own platform
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In-person delivery at your office or offsite venue (travel expenses will apply)
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Suitable for up to 25 participants
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Customisation of workshop content is available (design fee will apply)
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Please contact us to discuss how this workshop will complement your current EDI activity

Follow-Up

Talk to us about our additional learning tools, such as nudges, videos and podcasts, to deepen and extend your participants’ understanding and application of this topic.