Driving Business Success Through IDEA: A Guide for Employers in Fostering an Inclusive Workplace

This webinar will discuss the concept of “IDEA”, and how it impacts the day-to-day operations of your business. Referred to by many different names and acronyms, IDEA training is one of the hottest topics in business development.  The webinar will provide you and your organization with actionable insights that will keep you at the forefront of the latest trends. The primary focus of this event is to enhance awareness. With an ever-increasing interconnected global economy, your organization must entrench IDEA initiatives in its business strategy.

This webinar will cover the following:

1. What is I.D.E.A. and how does it relate to your business? This section helps to bring awareness to inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility.  It will define and explain how each term plays a prominent role in your business strategy.
2. Understanding intersectionality.  In this section, we will review intersecting identities and how they impact the workplace.
3. Uncovering Unconscious Bias. By examining unconscious bias, this section looks to address systemic barriers that your organization may be facing.
4. Exploring different types of bias and how they pertain to the recruitment process.  This section will use recruitment as an example to highlight how bias can impact business decisions.
5. I.D.E.A. Checklists for your business. We will review tangible takeaways that you can implement in your business strategies for recruitment, retention, training & development, performance management, and business development.
6. Moving forward – Goals to optimize your talent.  We will conclude the presentation by discussing the steps that you can take to get the best out of your diverse workforce moving forward.