[Read what clients are saying about the Diversity Challenge]
The Diversity Challenge, a unique and innovative software tool designed to educate and audit how successfully an organisation is embedding inclusivity, is fast becoming a premier diversity product internationally. Created by Diversity Consulting, it has been customised for use globally.
Whilst building the diversity capability of management and employees, the Diversity Challenge is used to conduct an ongoing evaluation of those diversity issues that your employees consider most important. By motivating early intervention and policy reforms where necessary, the Diversity Challenge plays a strong risk management role in the business whilst helping to embed an inclusive workplace environment.
Facilitated by Diversity Consulting or by your own in-house trainers (an annual licence can be provided), Diversity Challenge workshops are lively, highly engaging sessions that increase awareness, spark discussion and lay the foundation for a diversity strategy.
The Diversity Challenge:
- Builds the diversity capabilities of management and employees
- Leverages strategic action to embed an inclusive environment
- Enables organisations to audit achievement of their stated diversity and inclusion objectives on an ongoing basis
- Assists organisations in positioning themselves as employers of choice for diverse talent
Key Features:
- The Diversity Challenge can be used in small group workshops or at large events with hundreds of participants
- Using animation, music, sound effects and a range of visuals, learning about diversity and inclusion is stimulating, exciting and engaging
- Content varies in complexity (is suitable for use from executive to lowest levels in an organisation) and covers a broad range of diversity issues such as age; culture; ethnicity; race; gender; disability; sexual orientation; personality, thinking & behavioural styles; flexibility, work/life balance, mental health, discrimination, harassment, bullying, etc
- Content is extensively researched by Diversity Consulting's international multidisciplinary team of diversity, legal, human rights and business management experts.
- The content of the Diversity Challenge is managed on a live portal that is linked to your software via the internet. This means that as a licensed facilitator, you can access any content updates at the click of a button and at your own convenience
- The Diversity Challenge is customised for each country/region and a wealth of value-added resource material underpinning the content of the tool is integrated directly into the software
- Voting screens, diversity scorecards, strategic discussion and summary report functionalities offer organisations and Diversity Councils a dynamic tool to monitor priority areas requiring attention and gaps between policy and practice
By whom and how is it being used?
Due to highly adaptable process and content, the Diversity Challenge can be customised for a wide range of functions:
- Leadership events to generate strategic diversity blueprints on the way forward
- Audits by Diversity Councils
- Interns, graduates and induction programs
- Workshops to build the diversity capability of managers, employees and diversity networks
- Discrimination, harassment and bullying training
- Conference events
The Diversity Challenge is being used by a wide range of clients globally. This includes multinationals in locations across the Asia Pacific region, UK, Europe and the USA. Click on the image below that corresponds with your region of interest to view distributor details.
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What clients say about The Diversity Challenge:
“The feedback from thirty-seven workshops in Australia, New Zealand and London has been outstanding. One fantastic element of the program is the ability to customise for different locations. This really helped our international employees to engage in the sessions because it felt more ‘local’ and less driven by Head Office in Australia. The Diversity Challenge also provides summary reports to inform focus and priorities. This proved important…and has helped us reframe our focus.”
Lindall West
Director, Environment & Capability
People & Performance
Westpac’s Institutional Bank
“We used The Diversity Challenge as the culminating event for our 2008 Diversity Week. The session was attended by 64 leaders in the Firm. Participants said not only was it fun, but there was valuable information sharing on important diversity & inclusion topics. People who were new to the conversation about diversity left the session making a commitment to become more involved and people who were already experienced felt that they had taken their diversity awareness to a new level.
The Diversity Challenge was voted as one of the best events of our Diversity Week.”
Diversity Manager, a UK Investment Bank
“We used The Diversity Challenge for our annual T.I. Worldwide Diversity conference, ‘Embedding an Inclusive Environment’, and it proved to be the best and most engaging conference we have had to date.
This was the first time the Diversity Challenge was used in the USA and we were delighted with the process and the results. The game enabled attendees to work on challenging diversity issues in a fun and competitive team based spirit and the post play discussion allowed us to develop priorities and strategic direction.
The Diversity Challenge is an innovative and unique approach to diversity and inclusion, and our objectives were met and surpassed as people left the conference enthused about the experience and energized about their part in embedding an inclusive environment at Texas Instruments.”
Tegwin Pulley
Vice-President, Workforce Diversity and Work life Strategies
Texas Instruments, Dallas, US
“I used the Diversity Challenge with the Executive of nab Australia and found that it stimulated their interest and thinking on the relevance of diversity and inclusion to their business strategy; helped them identify flexibility and diversity as key business priorities; and aided in the formation of an action plan to address those priorities. Subsequently, the Head of our Business and Private Banking operation has also used the Challenge with his own senior team.”
Sue Sjuve
GM, Inclusion & Diversity
National Australia Bank
“The Diversity Challenge is a very innovative and effective tool and all managers and non-supervisory staff who have attended Challenge sessions report high levels of satisfaction.
Internal evaluations by our project team have found the Diversity Challenge to be an excellent tool, not only for sensitising and educating employees about diversity, discrimination and equity issues, but also for providing individuals with the impetus to take personal responsibility in their professional lives to embed inclusivity and change their own behaviour.”
Thomas Dornan
Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care (NSW, Australia)
“The Diversity Challenge is a creative and effective way of exploring the issue of diversity in the workplace. Differences are presented to participants in an inclusive and non-judgemental manner so that their paradigms are challenged and they are fully engaged at all times. Highly recommended for all levels of staff and managers.”
Derek Raymond
Equity & Diversity Coordinator
Railcorp
