Sexual Orientation in Equality & Diversity

This involving programme involves challenging group work; it employs colourful and engaging visuals and provides relevant reference notes. It supports you to ensure that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people do not experience discrimination and prejudice as employees or customers.

The course raises awareness of the sorts of issues faced LGBT people and how they can be addressed. It looks at staff and management attitudes, departmental policies and legislation protecting LGBT people at work.

Participants are involved in the workshop-style activities that allow them to:

• Become more fully aware of LGBT issues at work and their implications

• Understand current and planned legal obligations and how to comply with them
• Become equipped with the tools to feel confident about challenging homophobic discrimination
• Reflect and explore best practice approaches to developing a supportive and inclusive environment in your organisation
• Consider changes that will ensure that the organisation becomes and goes beyond being fully legally compliant to support its future success

• Improved employee-employee and management-employee relations
• Greater awareness of the issues and knowing how to behave
• Enables everyone to understand how they contribute towards their personal and the organisation’s obligations

• Minimises the possibilities of discrimination and reduces risk of legal challenges
• Supports the recruitment and retention of the best people for the job
• Helps the organisation become recognised as a good place to work

This is designed as a one-day workshop but can be extended to give more depth or abridged to a half-day by reducing content and time spent on group and practical work.

• Introduction and programme objectives
  Why this is an important issue for all other organisations!
• Effects of homophobia on individuals and on group performance
• Legal stuff
  An overview of key impacts of current and pending legislation including:
• Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2003
• Civil Partnership Act 2004
• Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999
• The Gender Recognition Act (2004)
• Institutional homophobia
  What is it?
  How do we know if our organisation has it and what can we do about it if changes are required?

• Ways to combat homophobia
• Developing good practice
• 15 steps to a discrimination free workplace
  Which of these can we employ in our organisation?
• Situations that we could encounter that we should challenge – but how?
  A range of scenarios or case studies that should be challenged. Input on techniques to challenge sensitively but assertively. (We can use actors to bring this to life playing out some real-to-life scenarios.)
• It’s your go!
  Participants get to handle and resolve some sensitive situations by practicing the techniques introduced earlier
• Developing and sharing personal action plans
  The final stage is to seek a commitment from each participant that they will do something that is tangible to transfer the learning

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One full day or as an abridged half-day introductory programme

Folder, workbook, handouts, pen and certificate of attendance

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Up to 12 people

Righttrack programmes are energetic, exciting and highly participative, which create an impact and motivate participants to learn and embrace change

We utilise a blend of learning methods: practice sessions, group workshops, scenario-driven learning, assignments, self managed learning, shared group learning, accelerated learning and structured group learning