Description
This collection provides actionable guidance for demonstrating respect for others and enabling a productive and harmonious workplace. You will gain tips for collaborating successfully and doing what you can to ensure a culture of psychological safety and professionalism. If you’re looking to learn about equality, diversity, and inclusion and how it relates to effective leadership, communication and teamwork, this one’s for you.
What topics are included in the Understanding EDI online training?
• The Meaning of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
• Why Diverse Businesses are Winning
• Cultural Awareness
• Office Etiquette Explained
• Banter and Bullying
• LGBTQ+ Awareness: Gender
• LGBTQ+ Awareness: Sexual Orientation
• Microaggressions: LGBTQ+
• Understanding and Avoiding Bias and Discrimination Within AI Tools
Each online course of this ‘Understanding DEI’ collection includes a 10-minute evidence-based, engaging audio track underpinned by a transcript, a further reading list, an infographic, and multiple-choice questions.
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Learning objectives
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
• Explain the meaning of equality, diversity and inclusion
• Identify some of the ways you can be more inclusive
• Instil and develop inclusion and diversity in your organization
• Understand how things like gender and ethnicity in the workplace impact the innovation and success of a company
• Recognise instances of AI bias and discrimination in various contexts, including professional settings.
• Establish how AI systems inherit and perpetuate biases and examine the role of training data and pattern recognition.
• Examine practical tips and strategies to address AI bias and discrimination.
• Understand some important terms relating to gender and the experiences of trans people in employment
• Develop practical ways of making your workplace safer, more accessible and more inclusive for trans colleagues
• Recognise some important terms relating to sexual orientation and understand the experiences of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people in employment
• Develop practical ways of making your workplace safer, more accessible, and more inclusive for lesbian, gay, and bisexual colleagues
• Understand what a microaggression is, and the sometimes subtle (but always harmful) nature of microaggressions
• Explore microaggressions specifically experienced by LGBTQ+ people in the workplace
• Develop ways of fostering a more inclusive workplace through more considered use of language
• Define banter and bullying, and where the two meet and differ.
• Understand the size of the problem of bullying in the workplace, and how we can address it in the correct ways.
• Explain what it means to be culturally aware and develop new ways to show cultural sensitivity
Entry requirements
There are no entry requirements
Course assessment and certification
On completion of the course a downloadable certificate is immediately available