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Diversity & Inclusion: Building and Leading an Inclusive Workplace

Build the right skills to lead and foster diversity and inclusion in your organization.

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The Key Issues

Leaders at all levels must be active and qualified advocates of diversity and inclusion (D&I) to ensure it’s part of the organization’s culture and business strategy. This unique 3-day certificate programme goes beyond standard D&I courses, and helps you develop skills to become a champion of diversity and a leader of inclusive teams. You’ll learn to recognize the uniqueness and multidimensional aspects of individual identity, understand biases on a deeper level, and explore behaviors that promote trust. You will also gain knowledge and tools to help you foster a thriving culture that promotes these values. Apply what you learn in a specially designed, interactive capstone project.

Promoting real diversity & inclusion strategies

Managing inclusive meetings

Key Competences​

Understanding
bias

Being an inclusive leader Creating an inclusive vision

The Right Programme for You

You are an HR professional, senior manager or executive, and you are responsible for driving diversity and inclusion initiatives in your organization.

  • Business Professionals
  • New Managers
  • Managers
  • Senior Managers

Highlights

Use role plays to simulate real business situations and interactions to develop your own inclusive leadership skills.

Receive direct feedback to incorporate into your inclusive leadership development plan.

Learn, Practice and Use

  • Understand why diversity and inclusion is important and beneficial for your organization
  • Reflect on the multidimensional, multicultural aspects of individual identity today
  • Understand the relationship between emotional intelligence and diversity
  • Identify intercultural leaders' challenges
  • Enhance your abilities to hold and participate in meetings that are inclusive
  • Take ownership of helping to create and manage a culture of respect, civility and trust
  • Build an inclusive leader action plan Identify characteristics of debate, discussion and dialogue in an inclusive workplace
  • Put into practice what you have learnt as soon as you get back to the office
  • Use a model to hold difficult conversations in your organization
  • Share your knowledge and challenges with your peers and MCE's highly experienced faculty

Programme Details

Diversity & Inclusion: Building and Leading an Inclusive Workplace is a 3-day hands-on training programme, highly interactive with exercises and role plays. The programme will be led by an experienced facilitator with former management experience in international companies.

Eight Programme Modules

  • Establish a common language through definitions.
  • Understand the business imperative for diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
  • Reflect on the multidimensional, multicultural aspects of individual identity.
  • Describe the importance of flexing with communication style preferences as an inclusive leader.
  • Explain your preferred communication style and those of others.
  • Recognize obstacles that ineffective listening can cause.
  • Identify the two types of micro-messages and recognize micro-inequities.
  • Understand the relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Diversity.
  • Identify strengths and development needs using the Inclusive Leadership Assessment.
  • Develop a skill for facilitating teams’ ability to work effectively together.
  • Identify intercultural leaders’ challenges.
  • Identify strengths and development needs using the Inclusive Leadership Assessment.
  • Develop skills for facilitating a team’s ability to work effectively together.
  • Identify your ideal network to accomplish your goals and advance your career.
  • Identify leadership challenges.
  • Use a model to hold difficult conversations.
  • Identify characteristics of debate, discussion, and dialogue.
  • Practice dialogue in conversations.
  • Review the seminar’s key tools and takeaways.
  • Create an inclusive vision for your workplace.
  • Build an Inclusive Leader Action Plan.
 
  • Put into practice some of your instructional learnings and personal insights from this seminar.
  • Use role-play to simulate real situations and interactions.
  • Receive feedback to incorporate into your inclusive leadership development plan.
  • Observe others’ role-plays and provide them with thoughtful feedback.
  • Distill what you’ve learned from the seminar instruction, activities, and capstone.
  • Finalize your Inclusive Leader Action Plan
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Faculty

Bettina
Hausmann

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Bettina
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Hausmann

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Hausmann

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