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We access, develop and enable leader to create cultures of equality
Everyday leaders get to decide how employees will experience the organisation – this is a privilege. Regardless of how many people you manage or level of seniority, as a leader you get to decide how women will be valued, how men will engage, and how all employees will be treated. Leaders also have the esteemed opportunity to enable the men and women who work for them to put equality into practice every day – something that only those in positions of power get to do.
This is the definition of leadership: empowering all women and men to meaningfully contribute to their organisation by enabling them to use their different talents and capabilities and valuing them for this. Equality stops and starts with leaders. The call for leaders to advance equality at work is really an invitation for them to lead.
When leaders do not practice inclusion or own the cultural transformation process, then companies tend to adopt off the shelf diversity and inclusion solutions, which have limited impact and often do not result in long term cultural transformation.
When leaders do not practice inclusion or own the cultural transformation process, then companies tend to adopt off the shelf diversity and inclusion solutions, which have limited impact and often do not result in long term cultural transformation.
Currently most leadership inclusion assessment tools measure general leadership competencies like collaboration or curiosity. These measures do not provide an assessment of the actions leaders are taking to build cultures of equality within their teams. The LEI is the go-to diagnostic tool to assess, evaluate and continuously monitor what leaders are doing to build cultures of equality within their teams and organisations. The assessment is a data-driven, in-depth measurement tool with automated norm groups and reporting, to provide all people managers with a customised individual report, with clear development suggestions and actions they need to take to advance equality within their teams.
Leading for The Future (LTF) workshop series is a three-part interactive, immersive virtual development program that enables leaders to enhance their awareness, understanding and ability to create cultures of equality and lead in an inclusive way. The program provides long-term value by creating transformational leaders who will become role models of inclusivity, who will live the organisational values, and will empower their teams to practice inclusion in all that they do. The LTF program will provide a safe environment for leaders to examine their own privilege, prejudice, and limitations when it comes to leading inclusively. The LTF incorporates lectures, discussion, experiential learning, and educational activities designed to build core leadership inclusion capabilities. The program develops inclusive leadership from the “inside-out”, starting with building leaders’ self-awareness of inequality, then extending their understanding of how inequality creates challenges to men and women’s advancement in the organisation. With this deep awareness and understanding, leaders are then provided with the tools, resources, case studies and practical solutions to know how to take action within their teams to build a culture of equality.
The NextGen Equality Leaders Program is a transformative virtual development program that enables and empowers the next generation of leaders to understand how inequality works at work and what they can do to build cultures of equality at work. The goal is to enable them to become the next generation of change makers, and use their capabilities to advance equality and thrive in workplaces today and tomorrow. The program is delivered in three modules to young men and women entering the workforce who want to develop the skills needed to become future leaders within their workplace.
Our Emerging Inclusive Leadership Program ensures that people managers, with around 5 to 10 years of professional experience, have what they need to succeed as an inclusive leader in senior or general management roles by developing the skills required to lead themselves and others in a way that harnesses the benefits of a diverse workforce. Through this program, leaders are provided with the diversity acumen, inclusive leadership skills, and equality mindset to navigate today’s global challenges and excel in tomorrow’s uncertain business world. This program enables leaders to bring diverse individuals together to create, innovate and deliver value to their organisation. The aim of the Emerging Inclusive Leadership Program is to enable leaders to motivate and engage teams with a high degree of diversity on all parameters, i.e. gender, ethnicity, age, profession, and cultural backgrounds. And to connect with diverse customers, welcome and celebrate a diverse spectrum of ideas and solutions – and enable different individuals in the teams to reach their full potential
We have designed our Managing for Equity and Equality development series to empower all people leaders to develop their inclusive management skills and make a genuine impact on their team and organisational culture, when it comes to advancing inclusion. The Managing for Equality development series, is a three-part interactive learning series that incorporates lectures, discussion, experiential learning, and educational activities designed to make leaders aware of how bias, inequality, and privilege negatively impact their decision-making and what they can do to build inclusive cultures. A fun, engaging and thoughtful approach underpins the Managing for Equality program. We focus on behaviour change and our learning series is packed with tips, techniques and practical take-aways. Our focus is on developing training that is hard wired to your organisation’s purpose, values and frameworks.