Lunch & Learn: "To diversity and beyond"

About this event

Looking beyond diversity to the impact of psychological safety in embedding inclusive culture and enabling diverse high-performing teams

We all know having diverse teams is important to ensure our workplaces are innovative, creative, productive and reflect the needs of our customer base. This session will take us beyond diversity to the critical principles of inclusion and psychological safety. If your team members do not feel listened to, they will not feel safe enough to bring their unique insights, ideas and experiences to the table. In turn this means your business cannot reap the full benefits of having a diverse workforce.

With insights from the research translated into tangible takeaways, this webinar will give you the tools to assess how psychologically safe people in your workplace feel and provide you with the practical actions to improve feelings of inclusion across the business.

What You Will Learn

· A clear understanding of diversity, including how it applies to your business and sector.

· Risks of seeing diversity and inclusion as “done” if you have a representative workforce

· How to support and empower diverse teams to ensure your people reach their full potential and perform at a high level

· A diagnostic to assess whether individuals in your business feel a sense of psychological safety

· Practical takeaways to help you improve psychological safety at all levels of the business

Who Is It For?

· HR, EDI and OD practitioners looking for practical actions to assess the gap between a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture.

· Leaders and managers who want to do their part to embed an inclusive culture.

· Early-to-mid career HR professionals wondering what comes next after championing the importance of diversity.

· Anyone responsible for shaping employee experience, including recruitment, people management, succession planning, leadership development and retention.

Abridged Agenda

• Intro: Recap the meaning of diversity and inclusion

• Key Themes:

- Definition and stages of psychological safety

- Why do we need it?

- How do we know if we have it?

- How do we improve it?

• Q&A and takeaways

Guest speaker's profile:

Emma Forbes-Cockell is Client DEI Manager at Linklaters and has a Masters’ in Business Psychology where she specialised in gender, bias and leadership styles. She has worked in HR and L&D before specializing in EDI where she shares best practice for tracking and reporting diversity data, retaining and developing diverse talent, designing bespoke training and development workshops, and is a member of numerous cross-industry working groups collaborating to improve representation in the legal sector.

Emma is also the Volunteer Experience Lead for the Association of Business Psychology.

Please note:

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5. This event may include an external speaker who has prepared their own presentation. Any views or opinions expressed by the speaker are their own and do not reflect those of the CIPD.

6. If you require any reasonable adjustments to enhance your experience, please get in contact with us by responding to this email and we will do our best to accommodate