Inclusion is essential in today's legal workplace, both for individuals and for organisations. The SBS Core Inclusion Program comprises eight self-paced courses designed to provide core skills and knowledge around supporting diversity in the workplace.

The Core inclusion course outlines the overarching inclusion principles and provides tools for promoting diversity, to help make organisations more inclusive of a range of individuals and communities.

At the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Describe ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion’
• Describe the four key elements that need to be experienced by individuals in order to achieve inclusion in the workplace
• Explain the concept of ‘intersectionality’ and its impact on inclusion
• Give examples of the benefits of having an inclusive organisational culture
• Recognise the differences between stereotypes and generalisations and relate these to your own behaviour
• Recognise that everyone has unconscious biases, and that workplace practices and decision making can be negatively affected by unconscious bias and assumptions
• Explain the concept of ‘groupthink’ and its impact on decision making
• Apply different strategies to reduce the impact of unconscious bias
• Utilise core inclusion skills or ‘people skills’ - such as curiosity, respect and open-ended questions
• Describe strategies an organisation can take to create a truly inclusive environment
• Recognise the role of workplace flexibility as a key enabler of inclusion
• Describe the concepts of universal and inclusive design

This course consists of four modules:

• What is diversity and inclusion?
• Unconscious bias
• Core inclusion skills
• How to be inclusive