This course will help you get to grips with the key aspects of diversity.

By providing valuable guidelines for behaviour in a diverse workforce, it can help you create a more comfortable, inclusive work culture and ensure that you avoid costly and damaging discrimination claims.

Who is the course for?

Diversity Challenge is suitable for staff at all levels within an organisation. This course is appropriate for any business sector, there are no formal entry requirements and employees do not need any prior experience.

What will you get from this course?

When you have completed this course, you will be able to:

* Understand how diverse teams can harness a whole range of talents

* Appreciate why a diverse workforce is more attuned to the needs of its customer

* Ensure equal opportunity exists for all employees

* Avoid unlawful behaviours and reduce the risk of claims of unfair treatment or discrimination

* Remove unhelpful ‘filters’ when recruiting

* Work successfully as part of a diverse team

Course features

Produced in association with leading business psychologists Pearn Kandola, Diversity Challenge will help you to confront any deep-rooted misconceptions and prejudices you hold about race, age, disability and all the other ways in which we differ.

You’ll learn why unwitting discrimination and harassment happens in the workplace and how you can play your part in ensuring equal opportunities for all.

Featuring dramatised case studies based on real-life experiences, the course explores a comprehensive range of diversity issues, from the possible consequences of inappropriate recruitment practices to the best way to create an inclusive environment.

As you work through the course, you’ll be presented with simple exercises to check your learning. Detailed checklists can be printed off and kept for future reference and an Assessment Quiz at the end of the course lets you gauge how well you have understood all the issues.

You can start the course straight away and access it at any time, providing you have the use of a computer with an internet connection. T

he course takes approximately 2 hours to complete and you do not have to complete the entire course in a single session.

If you do choose to take a break during the course, you will be able to return to the point you left your learning the next time you login.

The course is available for six months from the date first accessed. Other courses you might be interested in Religion and Belief, Challenging Behaviour , Gender Matters, Disabilty Confident , Employment Law 2006