Workshops for Employers
Collaborate with award winning ED&I educators to facilitate confident explorations in ED&I, Mentoring & Diverse Leadership.
The Built Environment sector comprises only 5% BAME people despite comprising 13% of the UK’s workforce. If your organization is ready to engage with a strategic commitment to increasing diversity BBU would love to collaborate.
Workshops: Inclusion | Mentoring | Diversity
Continuing Professional Development Workshop 1 - AN INTRODUCTION TO INCLUSION
Learn about the benefits inclusion makes to people, organisations and society.
Combating attitudinal barriers to inclusion
Guiding teams through deeply uncomfortable conversations
Exploring how inclusion brings positive impacts to creativity and business
Hearing and acknowledging team members who are othered
Affirming the business and societal benefits of inclusion
Stating the legal obligations that exist to create and protect a diverse workforce
Protecting industry by nurturing a richer and wider pool of talent
CPDW 2 - AN INTRODUCTION TO MENTORING
Mentoring provides benefits for mentees, mentors and organisations.
Igniting the possibilities for success and future leadership in mentees and mentors
Sharing the essential skills learnt through a holistic, energised mentoring process
Fueling the development of leadership the invests in continuous improvement
Affirming commitment to inclusive and diversity-safe mentoring
Communicating deep listening and acknowledging of difference
Nurturing exciting new talent, from student to chartership and beyond
Empowering mentees and mentors to develop wider, diverse, organic networks
“Homogenous groups … are more likely to form judgements that combine excessive confidence with grave error”
Matthew Syed, Rebel Ideas
CPDW 3 - INCLUSIVE LEADERSHIP
Inclusive Leadership allows organisations to reach a wider pool of talent.
Understanding the legal and social context for ED&I, from London to all over the world
Exploring how systemic racism and othering limits industry by ignoring talent and creativity
Affirming our colleagues, friends and peers who are othered
Proving the existence of systemic barriers with metrics, attraction, retention culture, progression and role-modelling/behaviour
Guiding teams through the challenge of making real, active change in their mindsets and practices
Creating and holding the space for profound, diverse change
CPDW 4 - INCLUSIVE RECRUITMENT
Inclusive Recruitment helps organisations understand how to reach and attract a wider talent pool.
Understanding the barriers and enablers in attracting diverse talent
Exploring how people from a range of backgrounds and social identities may experience the recruitment process
Affirming our colleagues, friends and peers who are othered
Challenging perceptions on unconscious bias and “cultural fit”
Guiding teams through the challenge of making a real, active change in their mindsets and practices
Measuring the performance of EDI strategies within recruitment
“BBU is a compelling, calm presence that helps everyone to feel safe whilst navigating sensitive conversations around ED&I. BBU has been integral to our development on ED&I.”
Stephanie Warner, HR Manager, HTA Design LLP
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