Developing and Integrating a Diversity Strategy

09:00 - Registration and Coffee
09:30 - Welcome, introduction and objectives for the day
09:45 - Developing a diversity strategy - first things first
· Assessing the diversity of your business : where are you now and where do you want to be?
· Implementing a diversity audit - what to assess, monitor and analyse
· Which aspects of diversity are strong within the business? And which need work?
· Going beyond legal compliance and creating a culture of inclusiveness

10:15 - Understanding the business case for diversity - and getting the necessary buy-in from your top team
· An overview of today's market place - and where you fit in to this
· The war for talent
· Evolving customer and supplier demands and relationships : what does this mean for organisational diversity?
· HR or leadership driven: where does accountability for the diversity strategy sit?
· Identifying and overcoming the challenges driving diversity forward

11:00 - Coffee
11:15 - Interactive exercise: a diversity analysis and checklist
Participants will have the opportunity to critically assess diversity levels in a number of areas including talent attraction, promotion, who's leaving and why, maximising the leverage from your diverse workforce to gain maximum value from people's perspectives and ideas.

11:35 - Designing a diversity strategy for your business
· Linking your diversity strategy to business strategy and objectives
· Rolling out a diversity strategy at individual, group and organisational level
· How do you mainstream diversity into your business strategy and operation?
· Knowing what you want to achieve: positioning your business on the continuum between compliance and best practice
· Making it flexible - one size does not fit all!

12:00 - Dealing with challenges and resistance
· Understanding resistance
· Using change management techniques to drive progress
· Knowledge is power

12:30 - Lunch
13:30 - Communication and engagement
· Articulating your diversity vision and mission throughout the business
· How can you engage all staff in the diversity initiative and reap the benefits of employee participation
· Using motivators and incentives and celebrating the successes
· Changing behaviours
· Using diversity champions to encapsulate diversity principles across the business

14:00 - Diversity proofing your policies, practices and procedures
· Identifying which key policies need changing to support your diversity strategy
· Putting into place new policies and procedures
· Training line management on the implementation of amended policies
· Communicating your menu of policies, practices and procedures at all levels of the organisation
· Anti-discrimination legislation: keeping yourself and policies up to date

14:30 - How to utilise diversity to make the most of your talent pool
· Maximising the diversity of your business and tapping into new markets
· What is the business imperative for diversity from a retention perspective?
· Your employer brand - is this helping or hindering your access and uptake of diverse talent
· Integrating key tools and techniques into your recruitment methods to tap into a diverse talent pool and successfully attract top talent

15:00 - Tea
15:15 - Assessing the impact of your diversity strategy
· How do you know how well you are doing?
· How do you define impact success? Measuring the return on investment of your diversity and equality initiatives
· What tools and techniques can you use to measure the impact?
· The global perspective: balancing commercial, moral and legal requirements

16:15 - A forward looking approach - using what you've got
· Experiments and quick-wins
· Managing diversity successfully : nurturing creativity and innovation to improve performance
· The role of training and education
· Changing mindsets - an process in progress

16:30 - End of seminar