Supporting Your Business
Inclusion isn’t a box-ticking exercise. Cultural change only happens in organisations when inclusion is embedded across day-to-day operations.
Read on to explore how Inside Inclusion can help empower your leadership team, support your people, and unlock the cultural and commercial benefits of a diverse and inclusive business.
Good Governance
Inclusion isn’t just another job for the HR team. It serves as the foundation for how your business is governed and run, informing everything from executive decision-making and policy development to day-to-day workplace operations and service delivery.
Inside Inclusion’s organisational healthcheck supports you to review your governance through an inclusion lens, to ensure that everything you do is compliant and delivered in a way that protects, supports and develops your people and provides the best possible service to your customers and clients.
Driving Change Through Data & Insights
How do you know what impact you’re having if you’re not measuring it? Meaningful cultural change must be informed by robust data and insights so that, when you’re checked and challenged on what you’re doing and the difference you’re making, you can explain your decision-making with confidence.
We’ll guide you through the process of safely collecting, analysing, and reporting on sensitive diversity data and inclusion insights while maintaining anonymity, confidentiality and trust – helping you to build a picture not only of what underrepresentation looks like, but also what the experiences of your colleagues, customers and clients *feel* like. Equipped with these metrics you can confidently put diversity and inclusion actions in place and measure their impact in the short, medium and long terms.
Education & Confidence Building
We understand that the subjects of diversity, equity and inclusion can fill people with fear. Ever-shifting and highly contextual by nature, many of us are worried about “saying the wrong thing” or “getting it wrong”. But we can take away that worry.
Inside Inclusion’s tailored workshops, training and leadership programmes which will help you to explore the unique challenges of your sector – from sport and construction and education to healthcare. From confidently defining key concepts and exploring regularly-misunderstood concepts such as bias and privilege, through to demonstrating inclusive leadership or recognising and addressing identity-based discrimination, our programmes which will equip your teams with practical, relevant and immediately actionable skills.
Strategy Development & Delivery
Without a strategic approach to inclusion, even the most well-intentioned efforts will peter out, stalling – or even setting back – your work towards creating an inclusive organisational culture. Inclusion only works when it’s intentional and woven into the fabric of your business.
Inside Inclusion works with leadership teams to build multi-year inclusion strategies which align with your broader values, mission and corporate objectives – moving your business away from sporadic, reactive measures and towards a pragmatic, considered approach. Together we’ll develop tangible actions, map milestones, assign ambitious but achievable timelines, and identify the resources required to deliver on your inclusion commitment and measure its impact on your workplace culture, talent attraction and business success.
Listening To Your People
The experiences of your colleagues, clients, customers and wider communities should help ensure that what you do is open to all and doesn’t directly or indirectly exclude or discriminate. However, ensuring these voices inform your work in a safe and structured way requires a thoughtful approach. That’s where we come in.
Inside Inclusion can help you design, launch, and run internal and external working groups which bridge the gap between grassroots feedback and executive leadership. By equipping those groups with the right tools and governance frameworks – all delivered in an environment of psychological safety – they’ll bring insights to your decision making which will benefit everyone.
Talent Recruitment & Retention
Every business wants to hire the best person for the job; but is your approach to recruitment enabling you to cast your net as widely as possible in your search for talent? When we neglect those processes, bias can find its way into recruitment processes: hiding in job descriptions and person specs; informing candidate shortlisting; or affecting interview and assessment formats. As a result, that exceptional talent you were looking for risks being excluded before you’ve even had the chance to meet to them. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Inside Inclusion will help you audit your hiring ecosystem, scrutinising every step of the process through an inclusion lens: from the language you use in recruitment packs and how you select your candidates, to your approach to demographic data collection, interview processes and onboarding practices to ensure that inclusion is front and centre at all times. Not only will this invite a robust talent pool for you to select from, but it will also send out a strong message about your business’ commitment to inclusion.
Inclusive Marketing & Communications
What you do to create a diverse and inclusive culture can only ever be as effective as how it’s understood by others. Modern consumers, prospective candidates, and corporate clients want reassurance that they’re investing their time, money and energy in businesses which align with their values so will be looking out for what you’re doing to create diverse and inclusive cultures.
Inside Inclusion works with your marketing and communications teams to help ensure that the way you talk about your business – and how your brand is perceived – authentically align with your values. This includes a review of your imagery, digital assets, public-facing copy, and internal messaging to create a communications strategy which attracts, resonates with and is relevant to the diverse communities you’re looking to employ, work with or deliver products and services to.
Still interested?
Then get in touch and I’d be happy to talk to you about how we could work together.
