Course description
Workplace inclusion boosts prosperity and creativity. Changes in today’s modern-day world have led to the need for diversity of thoughts and opinions in workplaces. As a result, corporations and companies are eager to hire leaders with leadership skills and the skills needed to harness diverse views within the workplace. Inclusion is about building a workplace culture where every individual feels capable of participating in achieving their potential. The Rcademy Certificate in Inclusive Leadership Training Program is developed to help participants understand the basics of inclusive leadership and how to manage workplace interactions effectively. Participants will also learn how to recognize various kinds of workplace bias embedded inside organizational practices that impede workplace inclusion. The course also covers the qualities of the inclusive leader, overcoming obstacles or challenges to inclusion, and managing workplace diversity.
What is inclusive leadership, and why does it matter?
Inclusive leadership is the ability to lead and manage heterogeneous groups of people while recognizing their uniqueness in a bias-free and empathetic way. It is an authentic leadership method that eliminates bias, favor, and discrimination based on race, color, and other protected characteristics and allows workers to feel valued for their input.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Who should attend?
The Certificate in Inclusive Leadership Training Program by Rcademy is designed for professionals within the management and corporate industry and for persons looking to further their interest in workplace diversity and inclusivity. The following individuals should attend this course:
- Diversity managersare responsible for gathering and evaluating statistical data to analyze the organization’s population by diversity goals and standards
- Inclusion managersare tasked with assisting in the promotion, oversight of high standards of learning and teaching, and direction for inclusion in the company
- Policymakersresponsible for researching and evaluating financial data and assessing the impacts of financial decisions
- Directorsare responsible for supervising a company’s operations, investments, ventures, and financial performances
- Chief executive officersare tasked with making significant corporate decisions, supervising the operations and resources of a firm, and serving as the link between the board and corporate functions
- Functional managersare charged with supervising the daily operations of a company and offering directions to employees
- HR officersare charged with supervising all aspects of an employment process, training and orienting new staff members
- Management officerstasked with providing administrative assistance and managing queries from employees
- Business analyststasked with conducting market analyses, evaluating product lines, and the profitability of a business enterprise
- Every other person interested in learning about inclusive leadership
Outcome / Qualification etc.
This training program is designed to help participants achieve the following outcomes:
- Understand the skills necessary to be an excellent leader and the characteristics of inclusive leadership
- Learn about the basics of inclusive leadership, its importance, and how to communicate effectively
- Argue for the case for inclusion and diversity in the organization
- Understand how to eliminate embedded barriers and practices that inhibit inclusion and diversity in the workplace
- Recognize the roles and responsibilities of the inclusive leader and how to manage differences in culture and orientation
- Meet up with expectations and fast-changing norms within the modern-day environment
- Recognize the challenges facing the implementation of diversity and inclusion in workplaces and how to overcome them
- Identify the various tactics of inclusive leadership
Training Course Content
Module 1: Introduction to Inclusive Leadership
- Overview and definition of terms
- Benefits of workplace inclusion
- Unconscious Bias and its Influence on Perceptions
- The relationship between inclusion and diversity
- Equality and inclusion
- Neurodiversity and inclusion
- The primary and secondary dimensions of inclusive leadership
Module 2: Managing Cross-Cultural Challenges
- Organizational cultural map
- Improving cultural intelligence
- Defining workplace culture
- Types of culture
- Cultural differences between men and women
- Teamwork and multicultural teams
- Inclusion and cultural practices
Module 3: From Inclusion to Diversity
- Inclusion and inclusive practices
- The workplace context for Inclusion, diversity, and Equality
- Moving from inclusion to diversity
- Identifying and eliminating embedded practices that inhibit inclusion
- Advantages and disadvantages of workplace diversity practices
Module 4: Leveraging Inclusion and Diversity
- The business case explained
- Successful inclusion initiatives and strategies
- How unconscious bias inhibits progress
- Leveraging diversity to maximize its potential
- Aligning employees’ needs with those of the organization
Module 5: The Inclusive Leader
- Overview and definition of terms
- Types of inclusive leaders
- Roles and Responsibilities of the inclusive leader
- The characteristics of inclusive leadership
- The principles of ethical leadership
- Challenges of inclusive leadership
- Strategies for inclusive leaders
- How curiosity drives inclusivity and diversity
Module 6: Inclusive Communication
- Active listening
- Effective communication skills
- Demonstrating inclusion with the right mindset
- Boosting your inclusion vocabulary
- Empathetic communication
- The communication toolkit
Module 7: Workplace Practices to Boost Inclusion
- The significant challenges facing the implementation of the inclusion strategy
- Upgrading HR Practices to boost inclusion
- Employees training
- Recruitment practices that support diversity
- Training and building interventions
Module 8: The Impacts of Inclusion
- Engagement, team performance, and satisfaction
- Innovation and creativity
- New perspectives and creativity
- Bigger talent pool
- Employer brand retention
- Better decision-making
- Improved performance
Module 9: Thinking About Thinking
- Thinking capabilities
- The Values and Biases of inclusive leaders
- Critical thinking and diversity
- The concept of critical thinking
- Critical thinking and emotional intelligence
- The two thinking systems
- Tips and hints to improve critical thinking
Module 10: Promoting the Business Case for Inclusion
- Personal action planning
- Embedded practices to be eliminated
- Recognizing and engaging stakeholders
- The business case for Inclusion
- Stakeholder presentation
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