In today’s competitive business environment, it has become more important than ever to leverage diversity and maximise the talent of every employee.

Increasingly, companies are linking workplace diversity to their strategic goals and objectives and holding management and HR accountable for the results.

Attracting, retaining and motivating the best talent is fundamental to your organisation’s success. If you want your employees to represent your customer and community base then you need to attract and retain a range of talented people, not just those who are most likely to fit in with the people you already have.

In the UK there is a policy and legislation context to equal opportunities. Being compliant with this and making sure people across your organisation understand its implications can reduce the risks to which your organisation is exposed. There is often a degree of fear and misunderstanding about such legislation and this unease can prevent people from acting. Understanding the policy context can help manage this fear and help diversity to be leveraged as a source of strength within your organisation.

Impact’s approach goes even further, beyond policy and procedure compliance. It helps people develop the attitudes and beliefs that will let them see value in connecting and working with others who they see as ‘different’ to themselves.

Impact will help you to

•  Create inclusive teams – where your people feel able and motivated to perform at their best
•  Promote leadership action – establishing a culture where everyone is encouraged to perform acts of leadership that cause change, challenge inappropriate behaviour and breathe life into your corporate values
•  Manage performance – challenging underperformance and creating an environment where diversity is understood and leveraged.

How we work with you

Impact’s approach is pragmatic and experiential. Our work is based around your current reality - what is happening in your workplace for your people. Creating inclusive teams means working with individuals around their own beliefs and behaviours, rather than just at the level of organisational policy and procedure.

•  Exploring personal preferences and values: It is natural to find it easier to connect with some people over others. To start to include others it is vital to understand your own preferences and values. A variety of experiential projects and discussion-based activities allow people to explore different values and views.

•  Exploring background: Cultural background, gender, ethnicity and age are just some of the factors that can influence peoples’ experiences of the world and the workplace. Impact can help you to find the space to explore these different perspectives, encouraging empathy and understanding between employees.

•  A positive approach: Much diversity work focuses on telling people what not to do, what not to say and what not to believe. Impact’s approach is based on helping people to work out what they can do - how they can proactively build inclusive workplaces. There is no such thing as action without values. If you are not actively doing something to challenge the status quo then you are contributing to it.

•  Making change happen: Making the change and becoming an inclusive workplace requires leadership across the organisation. Impact’s Acts of Leadership proposition will help your people to develop the confidence to challenge inappropriate behaviour. It will also give them the ability to recognise and leverage their personal sphere of influence to make change happen.

Your business will benefit from

•  Increased understanding of equal opportunities legislation
•  Enhanced innovation and decision-making abilities due to the inclusion of multiple perspectives
•  Engaged employees - retention and motivation of the diverse workforce you have worked hard to recruit
•  Improved communication between employees and teams
•  Increased productivity, efficiency and quality
•  An ability to move into emerging markets
•  Increased morale and reduced grievances
•  A sustainable culture that promotes a respectful, inclusive, knowledge-based environment within which each person has the chance to develop their potential and contribute to the success of the organisation.

Case study

Read a case study about our Leveraging Diversity work:
Insolvency Service - Diversity for Managers

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