Diversity planning

Course summary

How you plan for diversity can often depend on what the initial driver is for drawing up a plan in the first place. Perhaps a review of your polices and practices has prompted you to develop a diversity strategy, maybe you are acting in response to feedback from staff questionnaires or surveys or stakeholder reviews, sometimes it can be external standards, regulations or compliance reports, at other times it is funders' requirements. It may be that your organisation simply feels diversity is good for business!

Whatever the reason, relax, this training course will help. Good planning can help you deliver an inclusive and effective diversity plan - which can be used as a tool to bring about change and implement new policies to benefit your organisation.

Course outline

This diversity training course is very practical and tailored to the needs of the participants who are involved in planning diversity for the organisation.

Over the day you will cover:

  • What is diversity planning and why is it important?
  • External equality frameworks and standards – How can equality standards and frameworks inform the way we plan for diversity?
  • Where are we now?
    • What is your organisation’s approach to diversity? – values, vision, leadership, action plans etc. (please bring along any policies or diversity publicity you are able to share with the group)
    • Diversity audits
    • Impact assessment 
    • Using audit and impact techniques
    • Drawing up questionnaires and surveys
  • Involving staff and stakeholders
    • Diversity benchmarking
    • Working with focus/working groups
    • Developing Action Learning Sets (ALS)
  • Developing a diversity plan
    • Diversity strategy
    • Equality schemes
    • Diversity standards
    • Developing diversity aims and objectives, action plans
  • Competencies which can help to improve a diversity plan
  • Improving diversity dialogue and communication
    • How you can communicate your diversity plans more effectively to staff. Board members and stakeholders?
  • Evaluating diversity plans

“I would just like to say thank you for the brilliant training you delivered on Tuesday. It was very uplifting and the feedback from the team was excellent. It was perfectly pitched and much appreciated. I am looking forward to day two.”
TM Hammersmith & Fulham Advocacy

Who is this course for?

The training is for anyone who is responsible for planning diversity within their organisation or taking on a new role which includes responsibility for equality and diversity planning.

What will this course help me do: learning outcomes?

This training course will build your confidence, skills and provide you with tools to help you deliver an effective diversity plan

Other courses to consider

The Centre offers DIVERSITY COACHING SESSIONS which can help you to carve out some space to reflect on your diversity plans and focus on any challenges and issues you may wish focus on in more detail.

Course dates

27 January, 2009
23 April, 2009
7 July, 2009

Course fee

£345 plus VAT

(£230 plus VAT for small charities)