Managing Diversity and Inclusion in Teams

INTRODUCTION

This course teaches you what diversity is and how to leverage it to improve team performance, innovation, and creativity by relying on social scientific viewpoints. Through real-world situations and peer-to-peer talks, you will also learn how to elicit the collective expertise of different teams, address disagreement, and establish shared ground rules. You will also learn how to overcome typical prejudices seen in diverse teams. Power, reward, and rhetoric systems are examined to assist you in creating profitable teams where diversity thrive.

COURSE METHODOLOGY

This course is designed in the form of workshop which will includes a variety of learning tools to help participants function effectively and efficiently in a multifunctional environment through various methodologies including;

• Short lectures
• Brainstorming
• Case studies
• Group activities
• Role playing

COURSE OBJECTIVES

The attendees of this Certificate Program will be able to:

• Describe the advantages of diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
• Determine the circumstances in which diversity is most likely to benefit teams and organizations.
• Expand your knowledge of demographic disparities and how identity, unconscious prejudice, and structural inequities influence workplace dynamics.
• Determine best practices for fair organizational procedures and norms.
• Include critical concerns about how to lead inclusive teams, such as conflict resolution skills, best practices for group decision making, and emotion regulation.
• Acquire tools for implementing diversity and inclusion strategies in organizations, such as the architecture of diversity and inclusion groups, the importance of data and metrics, and methods for integrating diversity and inclusion into an organization’s core.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS COURSE?

• Employees interested to learn about managing diversity
• Leaders
• Supervisors
• Senior managers
• Middle level managers
• Department heads
• Team leaders
• Anyone who is seeking improvement in skills for enhanced performance and career development

TARGETED SKILLS

• Effective communication
• EDI planning and monitoring
• Policy development
• Managing diversity
• Strategic planning
• Inclusion in team