Advancing Inclusion and Diversity Through Strategic Corporate Citizenship
Research shows businesses with strong inclusion and diversity cultures have stronger financial performance, higher rates of recruitment and retention, and more robust innovation. In order to maximize these benefits, inclusion and diversity must be baked into the company’s culture and operations. This course focuses on:
- The special role corporate citizenship has to play in creating an inclusive workplace.
- How inclusion and diversity efforts are managed at companies of all sizes and industries.
- The business value of inclusion and diversity programs.
- Principles and leading practices to promote inclusion and diversity.
- How to create, manage, and evaluate programs designed to increase inclusion and diversity.
- How to communicate internally and externally about inclusion and diversity.
Enrollment Options
Take This Course Online Starting Today (or Whenver You're Ready!)
This course is available in a fully-online, self-paced format. You can complete it at your desk, according to your schedule. Continue reading below for course content details, then click on the button that says "Register Here."
Course Content: Preview the Specific Units or Modules Included in This Course
COURSE STRUCTURE
Start and finish on your schedule: Courses take 15-17 hours, including video content and exercises.
Module 1: Introduction and Inclusion and Diversity Context
- Describe key trends and issues in inclusion and diversity and the role of corporate citizenship professionals in promoting I&D goals
- Activity: Check your knowledge of key trends and issues in inclusion and diversity
Module 2: Diversity in All Forms
- Identify elements of diversity using best-in-class examples of how to implement programs and policies to support I&D at your company
- Activity: Reflect on I&D at your organization
Module 3: Planning for I&D Success
- Create a vision for I&D success at your company using a tool called back-casting
- Activity: Create an I&D statement
Module 4: Star Model
- Use a tool called the Star Model to organize operating principles to put your I&D vision into action
- Activity: Diagnose the current state of I&D at your company using the Star Model
Module 5: I&D Plan
- Learn how to create an I&D plan and put it into action using SMART goals
- Activity: Review your I&D plan goals and make them SMART
Module 6: Motivation
- Learn the basics of employee motivation and how they relate to your I&D goals and plan
- Activity: Map I&D benefits across functional roles at your company
Module 7: Inclusion and Diversity Activities
- Describe how to align your corporate citizenship programs with company I&D activities using best-in-class company examples as a guide
- Activity: Brainstorm how to start I&D conversations across departments
Module 8: Unconscious Bias
- Explain different types of unconscious bias and how they manifest in our daily lives
- Activity: Check your own bias
Module 9: Measuring I&D
- Define different mechanisms to measure inclusion and diversity—including measuring outputs and outcomes and choosing indicators to measure your progress
- Activity: List indicators to measure inclusive environments and reflect on how you could gather data to measure success of your programs
Interested in Taking This Course Online?
Register to begin the self-paced, online course.Professional credentials earned:
5 units will be applied to a Certificate in Corporate Citizenship Practice. This is an elective course for a Certificate in Corporate Citizenship Practice.
Tuition:
Member: $2,130
Non-member: $2,900
Please note that course discounts may be available when you enroll in multiple courses at once, either idependently or as part of a (in-person learning experience) registration. See the chart below. If you are considering take multiple courses, to better understand your options.
