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Focus on accountability and transparency, ensuring that merit, competence and potential are the basis for all decisions about recruitment and development, and be alert to the influence of conscious and unconscious biases. It’s just common sense…when you put individuals with different worldviews together,you’re going to get a wide variety of ideas for solving problems or finding new, more efficient ways of doing things. So argues Ruth Smith, who recently completed her doctoral research on how white counselling trainees understand race, racism and whiteness. It seemed a simple question, she says, but it unleashed some really strong reactions of anger and denial from her research participants. And while her findings are based on a very small sample (16 people), from one further education college in one geographical area, she believes they are typical of white understandings of race generally, including within counselling. Result in significant legal costs, compensation and settlements paid to avoid defending expensive discrimination claims. The unequal performance of companies in the same industry and the same country implies that diversity is a competitive differentiator shifting market share toward more diverse companies.

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Consider awareness-raising programmes as part of wider ongoing EDI training integrated into continuous professional development (CPD). Train all employees to understand and engage with EDI in how they do their jobs and work with colleagues.Ask pupils to think about all the things that make them who they are: their looks, their strengths, their religion, their family and their culture. You might be similar to other people in our school community, or you might be very different, but we are all welcome and we are all part of a wonderful, diverse world. Ultimately, what is delivered on training courses comes down to the core training curricula and course accreditation. BACP is a lead player in this as regards counselling. Many of the core courses on offer in the UK are BACP accredited, and BACP also dictates what students are taught and assessed on through the competence frameworks it publishes for generic and specialist areas of practice. Diversity can bring many benefits to society, the workplace, and communities. Example of the benefits are from [ Why Diversity is Important?]: Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to propel your legal career forward, enhance your employability, and embrace diversity in the legal profession. Register now for the AllAboutLaw Diversity Employability Programme and take the first step toward a successful future. If you live with a disability you’ll know how it feels to be treated differently, to catch uneasy stares, or to have people awkwardly bite their tongues to keep from asking

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Explore best practices for tailoring your applications to highlight your diversity and unique qualities. Watson argues that the profession needs to give much more attention to the selection, training and monitoring of trainers, to ensure they are adequately prepared and skilled to handle the complexities of leading workshops and sessions on race and culture. With diverse initiatives in place, such as diversifying the books that children read, it allows us to understand one another more. A diverse and inclusive team not only gives the companies additional experience and point of views, but it also helps and improve the openness and tolerance of different cultural habits in the same work environment. Smooth Recruitment Use employee surveys and marginalised employee lived experience to evaluate initiatives, to find out if policies are working for everyone, and to provide a platform for improvement.

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Diversity and inclusion is important because it brings lots of benefits. Diversity empowerment is evidently to have many benefits to a diverse workplace environment. However, working is not the only activity that we perform daily, we also have our social lives, our relationships in our community. In this article, we will learn: To come up with a workplace diversity definition, we have to think about all the different characteristics that employees (could) have. First, we have the protected characteristics, such as race, age, gender and sexual orientation. And secondly, we have all the different: Diversity UK is an equality charity that aims to research, advocate and promote ideas for improving diversity and inclusion in Britain. It is an evidence-based initiative that seeks to influence policy, enhance civic engagement and improve the perception of the minority ethnic community in Britain. Purpose Family Status: Diversity in family status means that people may have different types of families, including single-parent households, blended families, same-sex parent families, and more. According to a report by the Pew Research Center, in 2020, 64% of children in the United States lived with two married parents, while 7% lived with a single father, and 23% lived with a single mother. This shows that people have diverse family structures that should be respected and celebrated.

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Extremists usually have extreme views because they do not have the opportunity to understand the other sides’ arguments. Having diversity and inclusion will improve the balance of opinions, views in any setting. A well-balanced world will accept different opinions and reduce fears towards differences. A well-balanced world can also improve the average cultural competency in the society. Inviting more investments But sometimes, says Kerese Collins, lecturer in counselling and psychotherapy at Keele University and co-host of the My Wife is a Therapist podcast, even when invited, student groups can be reticent about going there, and you can’t force the issue. ‘This year I co-facilitated a session with a white colleague where we asked students to think about anything they felt personally oppressed by, or that other people are oppressed by in the world. The majority of the group were white, but there were also “global majority” students, as they preferred to be called. No one mentioned or identified race as an issue. The main business benefits of taking inclusion and diversity seriously are talent and corporate reputation. Talent

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To be competitive, organisations need everyone who works for them to make their best contribution. Increasingly, employers recognise the importance of inclusion and diversity in recruiting and retaining the skills and talent they need.