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Diverse by Design
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Diverse by Design
Dealing with diversity in the workplace is the current and most urgent challenge for employers and employees alike. Increasing legislation is placing a greater demand on employers to ensure that discrimination is avoided. In less than a lifetime society has changed. Language, behaviour and procedures that were once common place in our culture have all now been declared unacceptable.
 
For many people it is not easy to change their attitudes and bahviours to fit with what we now understand to be a better way of relating to each other.
 
Our attitudes to the nine characteristics of the Equality Act 2010 - age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion and belief, sex and sexual orientation - have all developed through the culture in which we grew up.
 

We all found the workshop to be very informative, relaxing and encouraging with everyone joining in. Ruth had real life, believeable examples, which we all related to.

Director, Housing Association

 

Diverse by Design is a programme which gets to the core of how we respond to those who are different to us.

 

Learning covers:

  • Group behaviour
  • Stereotypes
  • Unconscious bias
  • Ingroups | outgroups
  • Being inclusive
  • Plan to change

 

Check out your own biases at the Implicit Association Test website.

 

 

 

Made me more aware of my own smarty-pants bias against biased people!

 

What I found helpful was breaking down the issues about stereotyping into everyday life examples that I can relate to.

I learned that Inclusion is something that selfishly I hadn't really considered. Now I know what is required and I will try to turn the ideas into reality.

 

I realised that I am very biased and too self-righteous in regard to certain groups.

I now understand that Inclusion means that to get the best out of people you must understand what they are about and utilize their abilities for the good of all.

Belittling another point of view is easier than understanding it.

Rabbi Lionel Blue