Benefits of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training, or DEI training for short, sensitizes employees to accommodate, appreciate, and accept differences. It especially focuses on building positive working environments for employees from underrepresented communities to have equal professional growth and development opportunities. A diverse workforce is proven to give businesses a competitive and innovative edge as it broadens the hiring pool. DEI training also improves workplace culture, job satisfaction, and employee engagement, leading to higher productivity and lower turnover.

Enhanced Cultural Competence

DEI training equips learners with the tools to interact and work with diverse individuals, building their cultural competence. Cultural competence increases awareness and acceptance, leading to effective and inclusive employee collaboration.

DEI training teaches employees to accommodate and appreciate differences. When employees respect these differences, they contribute to the creation of a psychologically safe and motivating environment for each other. Employees that feel comfortable and respected at work are more likely to feel engaged.

DEI training develops skills that promote collaboration and teamwork, such as empathy and openness. Such an environment facilitates the free exchange of ideas and perspectives, leading to smoother operations and enhanced problem-solving.

As mentioned, DEI training helps businesses broaden their hiring pool. This attracts more talent. Businesses that commit to and successfully create an inclusive workplace environment are better able to retain the talent they attract, decreasing turnover and increasing productivity and profits.

A diverse workforce brings with it diverse experiences, perspectives, and ideas. DEI training allows businesses to create the right environment to leverage these unique suggestions and turn them into tangible products, services, solutions, etc. This gives organizations a massive competitive boost.

DEI training cultivates cultural awareness and sensitivity in employees. At the same time, DEI training impacts the demographic of the organization. When combined, this enables employees to have positive interactions with diverse customers and enables customers to identify with your business by seeing people like themselves working for it. Thus, DEI training improves customer relations, thereby increasing their satisfaction with and loyalty to your business.

Identifying and challenging unconscious biases is a mainstay in any well-crafted DEI training program. Thus, DEI training enables employees to be more aware of their biases and how they impact others. This awareness is the first step to change, after which employees can take conscious action to mitigate their biased behavior, thereby decreasing the chances of workplace discrimination.

DEI training reduces the likelihood of workplace harassment and discrimination, thereby increasing the organization’s compliance to laws, regulations, and ethical standards related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Thus, it protects organizations from non-compliance incidents and the legal, financial, and reputational consequences that come with it.

DEI training teaches employees to respect and value each other, accept differences, and maintain fairness with everybody. This creates a positive organizational culture of inclusion, belongingness, and safety where employees can thrive.

DEI training is one of the many ways organizations can demonstrate their commitment to corporate social responsibility. It backs up organizations’ claims of valuing diversity with actionable steps that create tangible impacts. With DEI training, organizations also directly impact society by providing opportunities and safe spaces to underrepresented or marginalized communities.

DEI Training (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Training) Solutions We Offer

Interactive, Engaging and Immersive eLearning Courses

We understand that training on topics of diversity, equity, and inclusion needs to leave a meaningful impact on learners for it to be effective. Thus, we strive to create highly immersive DEI eLearning programs that utilize learning strategies that facilitate active learner participation.

Microlearning courses are a great tool for shorter training concepts related to DEI. They are also effective for building awareness and skills in learners one at a time. We offer expert microlearning course creation services with immense experience in adapting the training format to DEI topics.

DEI is best practiced rather than preached. Gamification strategies offer an avenue to facilitate such kind of active learning where learners are engaged using and external motivators such as scores, leaderboards, and rewards.

Scenario-based learning is a potent strategy to show employees what pro-DEI actions look like in real-world situations. It is an excellent tool for building skills while also building empathy. Our scenario-based training solutions prioritize representation and emphasize contexts to foster meaningful change.

Video-based learning appeals to the younger workforce consisting of millennials and Gen Z. They are highly accustomed to learning things in a video format, making it a convenient yet effective learning strategy for younger employees. We offer the production of high-quality videos that can be hosted on many different devices, so you can cater to a wide range of learners and learner needs.

We also have a library of engaging off-the-shelf courses on DEI-related topics that can be purchased and set-up almost instantly.

DEI Training

Client Success

The client is a DEI and social cause training provider with a mission to help businesses build more diverse, inclusive, and discrimination-free working environments that foster high performance and equity.

They offer custom and off-the-shelf DEI-based organizational training programs curated by a team of interdisciplinary subject matter experts. Each training program is built for maximum impact using interactive, engaging, and practical delivery strategies.

The company is a certified Women’s Business Enterprise founded in 2018 with a vision to prevent and reduce discrimination against minorities in workplaces by educating people.

The client has since worked with businesses around the world to aid them in their DEI efforts ranging from training and recruitment practices to diversity in the C-suite. Their trainings tackle the subjects of diversity, inclusion, sexism, racism, and more.

Their products have been used in various organizational development interventions in delivery formats ranging from e-learning to in-person talks and workshops.

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The client and Learning Everest teamed for a project requiring the designing and development of eLearning courses on DEI training.

They picked our services because of the high quality we were offering within a shorter time and a more competitive price compared to other vendors in the market. We also were well-versed in developing impactful eLearning programs and understood the ins and outs of effective diversity training.

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The client wanted us to design and develop DEI modules. These training programs were meant for various level including employees, executives, and board members alike. The topics included:

  • Sexual harassment training
  • Anti-racism training

Apart from being informative, the clients wanted their training modules to be interactive, engaging, and trackable. It was also essential to the client that learners gain actionable skills and insights through the training programs and understand the practical aspect of the concepts being introduced to them.

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Based on the client’s training material as well as requirements, we settled upon a highly interactive multi-modal learning experience.

Each program had several chapters and followed a structured learning path with menus and sub-menus. To make the courses impactful, the following multimedia and interactive elements were used:

  • Animated videos
  • Scenarios
  • Images
  • Voiceover
  • Click-and-reveal sections
  • Branching

To add practicality to these e-learning modules, static scenario-based assessments were used. These assessments had a rich cast of characters in scenarios carefully crafted to prompt learners to reflect and/or apply the concepts and ideas they were familiarized with during the course.

All three courses were also SCORM compliant, i.e., they could be hosted on compatible LMS where learners’ progress and completion rates could be tracked.

The client was satisfied with the end-product and were pleased with the treatment we gave to their content to make it practical and engaging.

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