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Build a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) policy
Your HR decisions should rest on explicit, fair criteria. Identify biases, examine practices and structure a diversity and inclusion approach. Strengthen your ability to improve processes and mobilise teams around concrete commitments.
- Duration
- 3 days 21 hours
- Code
- RH037FR Code
Presentation
In a context of cultural transformation, combining performance and social responsibility is no longer optional. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) now sit at the centre of HR strategy, employer branding and employee engagement.
This pragmatic 3-day course helps you assess internal practices, including recruitment, promotion and pay, identify systemic barriers and unconscious biases, and co-create a roadmap aligned with your priorities.
You will leave with a complete DEI policy and an operational action plan. The aim is to equip you to define governance, manage through indicators and engage managers, making inclusion a genuine driver of sustainable performance.
Objectives
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- assess recruitment, promotion and pay practices against DEI priorities and legal obligations, including France's EgaPro equality index and disability requirements;
- identify unconscious biases, stereotypes and systemic barriers, including glass ceilings and glass walls, that hinder cultural transformation;
- define the vision, values and strategic priorities of a DEI policy covering disability, gender parity, background, LGBTQIA+ inclusion and intergenerational inclusion, aligned with your context;
- build a 360° operational action plan across HR, purchasing, communication and management, with clear objectives, resources and a schedule;
- establish DEI governance through a diversity committee and designated contacts, with indicators such as employee climate measures and the proportion of women managers;
- engage senior management, managers, employee representatives and employee networks to address resistance and sustain the approach.
Program
Module 1: Understanding and assessing DEI priorities
- Key concepts: diversity, equity, inclusion and intersectionality.
- Analysing DEI's strategic implications for performance, innovation, employer branding and CSR.
- Participatory assessment of current HR and management practices.
- Critical analysis of audit, survey and interview data.
- Identifying barriers such as biases and resistance, and enablers of inclusion.
Hands-on exercises
- Map your organisation's DEI priorities by impact and feasibility.
Module 2: Defining the vision and strategic priorities
- Developing the DEI vision, mission and values.
- Defining strategic objectives and areas of action across HR, governance, communication and training.
Hands-on exercises
- Co-create a DEI policy framework aligned with your company's strategy.
Module 3: Building and implementing the DEI action plan
- Developing an operational plan with priorities, owners, resources and a schedule.
- Establishing DEI governance through a committee, sponsors and designated contacts.
- Defining monitoring KPIs and impact assessment indicators.
Module 4: Deploying, managing and embedding the approach
- Communication and team engagement strategies.
- Change support and resistance management techniques.
- Management, impact measurement and continuous improvement.
- Building a DEI dashboard.
Hands-on exercises
- Prepare and present a DEI project to an executive committee to gain support in a simulation exercise.
- Formalise your individual action plan and implementation commitments.
Audience
This course is intended for professionals designing, championing and facilitating inclusion strategy, including:
- HR, diversity and CSR managers structuring DEI policy to meet legal and societal expectations;
- managers and senior leaders driving cultural transformation and modelling it to engage their teams;
- employee representatives involved in social dialogue negotiating and monitoring initiatives such as workplace wellbeing and equality to co-create the approach;
- internal consultants and HR trainers supporting managers and teams in implementing inclusive practices.
Prerequisites
The following prerequisites apply:
- Professional experience: experience in HR, CSR or management is desirable, as the course focuses on process transformation.
- Basic knowledge:
- prior awareness of social, ethical or management issues;
- understanding of the HR function's responsibilities and interactions.
Teaching and assessment methods
- Initial skills assessment
- Training materials provided to participants
- Continuous assessment throughout the course
- End-of-course feedback questionnaire
- Combination of theory and practical application
- Attendance records
- Post-course follow-up evaluation
- Practical exercises
- Case study
Course highlights
- Pragmatic approach: alternate theoretical input on legal frameworks and concepts with immediate application to your own challenges.
- 360° assessment: use self-assessment and collective analysis tools to audit HR and management practices and identify priorities.
- Collective intelligence: co-create your action plan through policy framework and dashboard workshops, benefiting from group feedback.
- Real case studies: analyse inclusive companies' strategic successes and failures to learn from them and avoid pitfalls.
Dates and sessions
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