Working inclusively
Learn to build collaborative working relationships that encourage cross-disciplinary working and team diversity.
Free for core learning subscribers
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£450.00 exc. VAT
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You’ll learn how to:
- encourage inclusiveness and improve everyone’s working environment
- explain the benefits of different types of diversity
- create a culture that shares knowledge across functions and disciplines
- build collaborative, cross-disciplinary, and diverse working relationships.
About this course
Please note, On 16 April 2025 the Supreme Court returned the ruling that the protected characteristic of “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex. The result of this ruling can be viewed on the Supreme Court website. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (the EHRC, the national equality and human rights regulator for England, Scotland and Wales) released an interim update on 25 April 2025 to help employers and others understand how to follow the law in response to the Supreme Court ruling. The EHRC is working 'at pace' to update its statutory and non-statutory guidance. We will update our content appropriately when the EHRC statutory guidance is available or changes are made.
Course length: Four to six hours
Delivery: Online, self-directed
Suitable for: All people professionals, at all stages
This course is included as part of the Core Learning Subscription.
Topics covered
- getting started with how to work inclusively
- modelling inclusiveness
- facilitating the employee voice
- building collaborative relationships
- working across functions and disciplines
- sharing knowledge
- building trust.
What to expect from this ‘working inclusively’ course
The course is aligned with The Profession Map's eight core behaviours. Learn more about these behaviours here.
This course introduces the key aspects of how to work inclusively. It will help you encourage inclusivity in the workplace and improve the working environment for people in your organisation. You’ll learn about the benefits of different types of diversity and why it’s important to bring people together to share perspectives.
You’ll explore the different channels that encourage positive engagement and learn how to create a culture that shares knowledge across functions and disciplines.
What you’ll need to do on this course
This course has seven lessons and includes a mixture of written, video, and interactive content that you can access online at a time that suits you. You can work through the lessons at your own pace and in whatever order you choose.
What you’ll get on this course
Taking part in this course gives you access to the CIPD Learning Hub for 12 months. Here, you can access your course content together with other valuable resources and tools. When you finish your course, you can enjoy an additional 12 months of access to other resources on the Learning Hub.
Learning outcomes
By the end of this ‘working inclusively’ course, you’ll be able to:
- become a role model and advocate the value of including others and embracing difference
- explore and interpret a diverse range of perspectives and views
- build collaborative relationships across organisation boundaries, cultures and other disciplines
- facilitate connections and joint-working across teams, disciplines and functions
- proactively share knowledge, experience and expertise to co-create solutions across boundaries
- coach and enable others to resolve conflict
- build trust within teams and functions.
Team bookings
Interested in booking this course for your team? We offer group bookings solutions for teams of four or more people.
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