Gender Equality

Course Content

Research has shown that both women and men can be unfairly discriminated against in the workplace because their colleagues' and managers' views are influenced, in many cases unconsciously, by stereotypes. Promoting gender equality in organisations is becoming ever more important, especially now that the Government has brought in a duty on public bodies to promote Gender Equality.

Approach

Our approach to gender equality aims to increase gender intelligence: the awareness and understanding of perceptions about gender: how they originate, how they can be reinforced and how they limit our view of ourselves and others. This approach challenges prejudicial, unhelpful and well established work patterns, whilst at the same time remaining fully supportive of individuals. We create a safe and enjoyable place in which to explore and explode stereotypical dynamics.

This approach can take the form of consulting and/or a one-day workshop

Our training is designed to:

• Challenge assumptions around sexist behaviour in men and women
• Raise self-awareness and self-regulation for greater clarity and rigour in communication
• Liberate the individual and the team from gender constraints
• Generate a more fruitful language between and amongst men and women
• Develop gender sensitive strategic and personal action plans
• Put diversity and equal opportunities into practice

The business benefits of our approach include:

• A safer and more productive language and behaviour amongst diverse staff and customers
• Greater motivation from a wider range of people through a celebration of diverse identities
• Attracting and keeping a greater range of talent to your workplace
• Developing allies in the people who might normally exclude themselves from diversity issues
• Learning how to walk as well as talk your values
• An environment in which gender is not a barrier to individuals fulfilling their potential in the organization

Learning and Development Outcomes

By the end of the workshop, managers should be able to:

• state how gender legislation and policy affects their managerial role,
• demonstrating an understanding of institutional sexism
• implement practical ideas about how to address gender equality
• challenges faced in their workplace
• examine further their own and others' experience, values and attitudes
• towards issues of gender equality
• develop action plans to take their learning into their workplace for their
• staff and service users

We create a safe and enjoyable space in which to explore and explode
stereotypical dynamics to create a more productive workplace.

This workshop can be tailored to meet the specific needs of your managers.

Workshop duration: 1 day - 9.30-4.30
No. of participants: minimum 4, maximum 12

Programme

Setting the scene

• Overview, aims, objectives and ground rules for working
• Introductions including: personal objectives, reflections on gender and what is diversity.

Understanding the impact of our gender:

• The experience of being a woman/man
• A conceptual model of socialisation

Legislation

• Current and forthcoming impact of legislation
• Institutional sexism

Practical policy and procedures

• strategic problem solving
• decision making
• levels of responsibility
• contemporary theoretical models

Taking leadership

• how does leadership look in practice
• action planning

Supporting materials
You will be provided with an extensive handbook with training material, legislation summaries, latest gender research and other background information in relation to equality issues, a resource and contact list.