Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging in the Workplace

• Organizations looking to improve their workplace policies to feature more inclusive language and diverse perspectives
• Managers looking to lead utilizing the core values of equity and inclusion

Topics include:

Building the Foundation: What’s in the name? EDI OR DEI? 

• Equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging 
• Understanding bias, stereotypes, discrimination, and internalized dominance/oppression

Workplace Culture, Behaviours and Language 

• What is workplace culture? 
• Addressing Microaggressions

Beyond Inclusion: Moving from Awareness to Action 

• The Value of Inclusion: Influencing Others for EDI
• Developing Inclusive Leadership Habits (facilitating courageous, inclusive conversations)

Sustaining Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging

• Creating a roadmap for driving positive change (Recruitment & Retention) 
• Creating employee resource groups
• Effective inclusive organizational strategies, practices, and policies

 

Sample exercises

• Identify workplace challenges, barriers and identify the impact on workplace culture 
• Examine and analyze organizational policies and practices that may require a more equitable, inclusive, and diverse framework

Upon completion of this class you will learn to:

• Develop foundational knowledge of equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging in the workplace
• Critically evaluate the effects of organizational policies and practices on designated groups (women, Indigenous peoples, members of visible minorities and persons with disabilities)
• Communicate the merits and benefits of diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Use knowledge and skills gained to assist in creating a more diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace environment.

Upcoming Course Schedule

There are no scheduled sections of this course. Please join our interest list for more information about new programs & upcoming sections of this learning.

 

Format

Online Classroom

 

Credential

Learners must actively participate in class discussions and attend at least 75% of the class to receive a Certificate of Participation from the University of Windsor.

Prerequisites:

Learners will be expected to possess:

• Basic computer skills
• English language proficiency

 

Technical Requirements for Brightspace

• Learners will require access to a computer to access class materials.
• A link will be provided through email prior to the first day of class so that you will have access to all course resources and streaming functions
• Once you register for this class you will be issued a UWinID. Please activate your UWinID as soon as possible. Document your UWinID and password as you will need it to access Brightspace. If you have any issues, please contact continue@uwindsor.ca.
• Visit this site for Brightspace technical requirements

Course Fees

Fee: $450 + HST per registration.

Full refund 7 days before the start of the course, minus a $25.00 administration fee.  Please review our Registration and Refund Policies for more information.

Discounts

UWindsor staff, students, alumni, and Hire UWindsor partners are eligible for a discount. For leaders in their organization who wish to send their team, group rates are available. Email continue@uwindsor.ca for details.

 

Funding

No funding options available.

Nicole Scott, BSW, MSW, RSW has been appointed to the Field Learning Specialist in the School of Social Work, University of Windsor. Nicole’s responsibilities include negotiation of field placements, referral of undergraduate and graduate students to field sites, confirmation of placements, site visits and monitoring of students’ performance in the field.

Nicole has over ten years of clinical social work experience working in a hospital setting. She has held multiple roles within a clinical setting, discharge planning, bariatric/medical weight clinic, mental health, geriatric mental health and addictions. Nicole has had a hand in program development and program evaluation and was part of the Ontario Bariatric Network mental health task force.

Nicole Scott is a member of the University of Windsor's Anti-Black Racism Task Force

Nicole Scott has been appointed as a member of the Working Group: Black Scholars Hiring Initiative at UWindsor

Nicole Scott has been appointed as a member of the Employee Mental Health Strategy Working Group at UWindsor

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Beatrice Anane-Bediakoh

Beatrice Anane-Bediakoh is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at York University. She holds a Master of Education in Humanities, Social Science, and Social Justice Education from the University of Toronto (OISE) and earned her Hons. Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Wilfrid Laurier University. Beatrice’s academic work is motivated by an unwavering commitment to the collective struggle for Black freedom(s) and life forms. Her interests include race and racialization, Black geographies, and the spatialization of race. Grounded in her lived experiences, her dissertation explores the links between Black personhood and neighbourhoods through processes of racialization. She has two upcoming entries in the Encyclopedia of Critical Political Science: a biographical essay on Stokely Carmichael and a co-authored conceptual essay on Racialization. Beyond her academic work, she is intimately invested in the Black community. In partnership with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Peel, she participates as Big Sister/ Mentor, alongside, offering affordable individualized tutoring services to low-income families in the Greater Toronto Area.