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Diversity & Inclusion - The Importance of Conscious Inclusion Legal Island's course can help create a respectful workplace where all employees feel valued. This training enhances cultural awareness and teamwork, boosting overall business performance.
Overview

Diversity & Inclusion Training is More Important Than Ever

Northern Ireland is becoming an increasingly diverse place to live and work – a great mark of progress for how far the country has come since the Good Friday Agreement.

Diversity and inclusion training for Northern Irish businesses is more important than ever to ensure a safe and inclusive environment for all.

It’s incredible to see the increasingly diverse array of people calling Northern Ireland home. However, recent events have forced us all to focus and reflect on issues relevant to diversity and inclusion like never before.

Therefore, ensuring your staff know their obligations and responsibilities when it comes to creating a positive and inclusive organisational culture is so important.

The Importance of Training

The Importance of Diversity & Inclusion Training

A recent ‘Public Opinion Survey on Equality in Northern Ireland’ by the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland found that 23% of employees have witnessed a situation in which others were not treated with dignity or respect in the workplace.

Diversity promotes positive behaviour, understanding, and acceptance between people within the workplace. This includes people from all different backgrounds, such as those of different races, ethnicities, genders, ages, religions, abilities, and sexual orientations, and with that, differences in education, personalities, skill sets and experiences.

Inclusion promotes a collaborative, supportive, and respectful work environment where everyone feels they can participate and achieve their potential. 

Conscious inclusion means awareness of your biases and doing your best to include everyone. This relatively new term in the world of diversity and inclusion is sometimes used in conjunction with unconscious bias.

Numerous studies point to the connection between high returns and greater workplace diversity.

Diversity and inclusion training helps staff raise awareness of the value of collaborating with people of different cultures, races, genders, ethnicities, beliefs, experiences, and ideas to foster a positive and inclusive work environment for all.  

Key Benefits of Diversity and Inclusion Training

Diversity and inclusion training is essential for modern work environments. We live in a more secular and diverse society, so promoting and encouraging workplace positive attitudes and inclusion creates a safe and inclusive work environment for all.

Here are just some of the benefits of diversity and inclusion training:

  • Increased employee engagement and retention: When you foster a positive workplace culture, employees will be more encouraged to remain working within your company. Building a positive and inclusive work environment encourages equality of opportunity for all.
  • Boost business performance: By promoting team diversity, you can tap into a wider pool of talent with ideas and inspiration from people from different backgrounds.
  • Improved cultural awareness: Diversity and inclusion training helps employees understand and appreciate different cultures and backgrounds, helping them to recognise false stereotypes and unconscious bias, creating good relations between colleagues.
  • Better conflict resolution: Equality training helps your staff to understand the importance of team diversity and peer support. This ensures all members act with dignity and understanding with one another, regardless of gender, race, religious belief, political opinion, background, or anything else.
  • Avoid unnecessary legal cases: Diversity and inclusion training helps your company avoid legal cases about discrimination and harassment in the workplace. Offering diversity training courses ensures compliance with diversity laws and helps strengthen an employer’s defence in Industrial Tribunal Cases.
What's Included

What’s Included in our Diversity & Inclusion Training for Northern Ireland

Our diversity and inclusion training for Northern Irish businesses will share suggestions on how your staff can work positively and inclusively with people who hold different views or come from different backgrounds than their own.

It will also explain equality legislation in Northern Ireland, which provides protection for you as the employer against harassment and discrimination cases.

This course was designed specifically for organisations based in Northern Ireland by a team of corporate inclusion and diversity experts and lawyers.

It will share suggestions on how your staff can work alongside colleagues who have very different views from their own in a positive, inclusive, and non-judgemental manner.

Topics covered include:

  • What diversity and inclusion is
  • The law relating to diversity and inclusion
  • The importance of inclusion
  • How to work in a positive and inclusive manner

Our diversity and inclusion course has recently been updated and features the latest equality statistics from Northern Ireland, along with a brand new ‘Meet the colleagues’ section and insights into the impact of artificial intelligence on workplace diversity and inclusion.

The course has been enhanced with fresh videos, real life examples, practical workplace scenarios and content presented in a more engaging and dynamic format to enrich your learning experience.

Should you have a particular need to brand or tailor any of our courses to your specific requirements, that is no problem at all. We offer a full bespoke service in-house. If you have any questions or queries, please feel free to contact our eLearning Sales Manager, Debbie Wilson - debbie@legal-island.com

Who is it for?

Who will benefit from Diversity & Inclusion Training?

All employees working in your company will benefit from this course as they will have the opportunity to work within a safe and inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued and included.

At the same time, your company will benefit from increased diversity, a positive reputation, and a lower likelihood of harassment or discrimination cases.

Key Statistics

Why learn with Legal Island?

We take huge pride in the training we deliver across Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Our key statistics show:

97%

of users said they found the courses beneficial for their organisation

96%

of users said they found the courses convenient and easy to use

96%

of users said their knowledge of the compliance topic area improved

96%

of users said they would recommend our eLearning courses to other organisations

750,000 +

hours of training and course content delivered

200,000 +

employees across the island of Ireland have now benefitted from our services

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