[What clients say 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.
What clients say about The Diversity Challenge:
"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)
