Building an Effective, Sustainable Diversity Initiative
Three ways to help you build an effective, sustainable diversity initiative:
- Jumpstart your diversity strategy
- Build your team’s equality, diversity and inclusion capabilities
- Turn to our experienced consultants for expert analysis, facilitation, communications, and development of tools, processes and programs
Strategy Jumpstart
ORC can guide you and your team through the process of drafting or refreshing your diversity strategy or expanding it globally. In the course of this full-day session, you will define your organization's diversity vision, draft an initial set of goals linked to business objectives, identify critical stakeholders, and determine the key management systems and processes you will harness to achieve diversity goals. Prior to the session, ORC's consultants will meet with you to discuss your key issues and review available data so we will be prepared to help your team identify strategies and actions likely to have the greatest impact.
Fee: $9,000
ORC’s “EDI Capacity Building” Series
Diversity & Inclusion
Foundations of Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Practice is an introductory workshop for new diversity professionals, HR generalists and specialists, diversity council members, employee network leaders and others who want to learn how to make lasting change in their organizations. Topics covered in the one-day, interactive session include local and global context for diversity, business-driven strategy development, impactful action planning, and diversity metrics and communications. This workshop is offered to the public throughout the year (please visit the Foundations Workshop page for more information and dates] or in-house for employees of a single organization. Size of group is limited.
Fee for private, in-house seminar: $8,000* (up to 10 participants, $400 for each additional participant to a maximum of 20).
The world is a huge place, and no one appreciates its complexity better than diversity professionals and champions responsible for globalising the diversity agenda. This briefing offers an overview of the global context for diversity and the legal framework in key regions, outlines the issues to be addressed, highlights important emerging trends and developments, and provides recommendations for structuring an effective global initiative.
Cost: $2,000* for up to 15 participants. $100 for every additional participant.
ORC's experienced consultants will introduce you and your team to the methodology and tools we use with our clients to develop a comprehensive, integrated equality, diversity, and inclusion strategy. Learn how these tools, developed through our research and extensive experience helping organizations like yours, help you identify diversity and inclusion issues and opportunities, set business-driven diversity and inclusion goals, and implement proven D&I programs and practices that make a competitive difference. All participants receive the D&I Strategy Toolkit at no extra charge.
Fee: $2,000
What are the most effective ways of leveraging senior leadership and Board of Directors commitment to diversity and inclusion? How can organizations gain support for D&I efforts from middle managers? How can diversity and inclusion be driven from the grassroots level? This 1 ½ hour briefing brings you proven strategies and techniques for mobilising stakeholders at all levels in the organization.
Fee: $2,000* (maximum of 15 participants; $100 for each additional participant)
In this two-and-a-half-hour workshop we explore how to make the most of employee networks for their members and for the company. You will learn best practices for gaining support for Network activities, magnifying your influence by collaborating with other Networks, and globalising your Network. As a group, you will begin the process of creating an integrated strategy that promotes the interests of the constituents of your network(s) and aligns with the organization’s business objectives.
Who should attend: diversity professionals, employee network leaders, network sponsors, diversity champions. This workshop can be held for leaders and sponsors of a single Network or for representatives of multiple Networks within the organization. It is appropriate for companies with existing networks or for companies in the initial stages of developing employee networks.
Cost: $2,000* for up to 15 participants. $100 for every additional participant.
U.S. Legal and Regulatory Compliance
The new administration has clearly signaled that change can be expected in the legislative and regulatory framework we operate in. In this two-hour briefing for human resources and business professionals, we’ll give you an advance look at what employers can expect from the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress. We’ll review the employment and labor laws that are likely to be passed in 2009 and 2010 and the changes we should expect in OFCCP and EEOC enforcement strategies, and we’ll discuss what employers should do to prepare.
Fee: $2,000* (maximum of 15 participants; $100 for each additional participant)
The ADA Amendments Act that went into effect on January 1, 2009, makes major changes to the definition of who is disabled under the Americans with Disabilities Act, reversing more than 10 years of actions aimed at narrowing its coverage. This two-hour seminar provides a detailed overview of the changes, what they mean for employers, and best to comply with these new requirements.
Fee: $2,000 (maximum of 15 participants; $100 for each additional participant)
New regulations on the U.S. Family and Medical Leave Act became effective January 16, 2009. The Department of Labor issued nearly 200 pages of regulations in the Federal Register. This two-hour seminar will discuss the most important aspects of the final regulations and provide recommendations on how employers can better manage their leave policies.
Fee: $2,000 (maximum of 15 participants; $100 for each additional participant)
In this introductory seminar those who are new to the EEO investigative process or who would like to renew their understanding of such processes will learn the key elements of effective EEO investigations and the consequences of improperly conducted investigations. Participants will work through hypothetical situations which may occur during an investigation.
Fee: $2,000 (maximum of 15 participants; $100 for each additional participant)
The How and Why of Investigations is a full-day seminar that teaches effective investigatory techniques for U.S. employers. Participants learn how and where to find information, how to properly interview witnesses, procedures for safe guarding the integrity of the investigation, and the legal implications of decisions made during the investigative process.
Fee: $6,000 (maximum of 15 participants; $300 for each additional participant)
* Outside the U.S., fees will be converted to local currency according to the exchange rate at the time charges are recorded.
Need More Assistance Building a Sustainable Diversity Initiative?
ORC’s experienced consultants and subject matter experts can help you:
- Assess your organizational climate for diversity, inclusion and engagement
- Pinpoint barriers to full inclusion
- Make the business case for diversity and inclusion in your specific industry and organization
- Set diversity strategy and goals that tie to business objectives and respond to stakeholder interests
- Communicate with stakeholders a bout diversity and inclusion principles and plans
- Design tools and processes that will turn the diversity strategy into a living, breathing way of working
- Facilitate formation meetings and strategy session of diversity councils, employee networks, and other working groups
- Identify and evaluate best practices
- Integrate diversity and inclusion into the total talent management system
