Overview

In our increasingly diverse and hyper-connected world, if you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always had.

It is a known fact that organisations with equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) at the heart of their strategy to meet their company goals, consistently outperform those who don't. Inclusion starts with the leaders and this is where we will start with you to build a strategy that embeds equity, diversity and inclusion within the company DNA for long-term benefits. 

In this workshop, we look at why EDI drives performance, the 6 key skills required for authentic inclusive leadership, how to embed inclusive behaviours within your teams and build a 12-month road alongside you for success.

Workshop objectives

This programme will help participants to:

• Understand the core EDI questions to ask to benchmark your current culture 

• Learn the 6 cores skills required for inclusive leadership

• Experience how inclusive leadership starts with making unconscious bias, conscious

• Explore the impact of team dynamics on your level of inclusivity 

• Practice how role-modelling curiosity and feedback drives a speak up culture and confidence in contribution 

• Develop a 12-month roadmap to embed equity, diversity and inclusion plans within your team

• Identify the key metrics to review and measure to keep your plans on track

Who should attend?

This practical course is suitable for new or experienced managers and leaders who are serious about how to create a culture of belonging where every team member is comfortable bring their true self to work every day. 

Format

A very practical, interactive 1-day session ideally for a maximum group size of 12. There are lots of different activities throughout the day where participants will work with their own examples and bring their skills and knowledge back to their business for immediate implementation.

Actionable Outcomes

The majority of the training we deliver is either tailored or completely bespoke. This workshop can therefore be delivered entirely as advertised, or it can be tailored to your particular requirements, or we can simply take it as a starting point for a conversation with you before we draft a completely bespoke programme for you – the choice is yours.

Expert trainer

Marie is a highly experienced commercial training and coaching expert with over 25years experience in sales & marketing leadership, capability building and coaching within the pharmaceutical sector.

Delivering training for purpose is Marie's passion, where her aim is to engage and energise her clients, helping them to build the learning mindset, skills and behaviours required to achieve their goals at an individual, team or organisation level.

Combining her commercial knowledge with her training, mentoring and coaching skills, Marie is an agile workshop facilitator who will confidently lead delegates from apprentice to C-Suite level through a clear and memorable learning journey that can be implemented immediately with actionable success measurements when they return to their desks.

Workshop outline

1    Psychological Safety

• How psychological safety builds trust in teams 

• The four stages of psychological safety 

• How inclusion is the foundation to building psychological safety within teams 

2    Unconscious Bias 

• The science - Why unconscious bias is in our DNA and should not be feared or ignored

• How to make your unconscious bias conscious

• Strategies to take action against unconscious bias

3    Team Dynamics

• The four communication styles within teams

• How diversity of thoughts challenges groupthink.

• Team mapping to bring breadth of thought and solutions to every problem.

4    Creating a speak up culture 

• Errors good - How treating problems as a learning opportunity gives permission to speak up

• Role modelling feedback - the 4 step frameweork to giving fast, candid feedback for change

• Curiosity - Questioning skills to drive inclusion

5   Allyship

• Privilege and microagressions in teams

• How to rolemodel allyship

• A framework to tackle challenging conversations