TDN Academy

Are you keen to spark change in your organisation by starting a conversation with your Board, managers and/or employees about the huge business benefits of a diverse, equitable and inclusive work-place? Or perhaps you’re keen to give your in-house D&I programmes a boost in engagement?

TDN’s free in-house business briefing, which can be tailored to suit a range of audiences, may be just the ticket to help you take your D&I aspirations from Talk to Reality...

This 1hour, interactive briefing is suitable for all employees and explores:

- diversity, inclusion and belonging, equity, and unconscious bias in the context of your workplace - what they are and why they matter

- your role in creating an inclusive culture, and

- a view of the opportunities to enable greater diversity and inclusion in the workplace 

Cost: One free workshop and £245 per additional workshop

1 to 2 hr bite-sized learning sessions, to be delivered virtually or in-house, including:

• Age Diversity

• Cards on the Table: D&I Q&A for Managers and Leaders (Bring all the tricky questions you’re usually afraid to ask! ....Language & banter - what can and can’t I say?; How can I be an authentic ally?; Isn't diversity really about everyone else apart from me?... This session works well in small groups where confidentiality is respected.)

• Developing Confidence in a VUCA World (A route map to inclusive leadership and navigating our uncertain world)

• Discrimination in the Workplace (Navigating the legal framework and implementing best practice to create an inclusive culture)

• Diversifying Your Network for Success (How diversifying your professional network will broaden your horizons and support an inclusive culture)

• Diversity Data (What it is, why it's important and how to get people comfortable with sharing it)

• Exploring Bias (Unconscious bias, its impact and how to manage it in the workplace)

• Financial Wellbeing and Creating Financial Inclusion (What organisations should be considering internally and within the community to support financial wellbeing and inclusion)

• How to positively influence and manage cultural change (Designed for members of employee-led diversity networks to help them engage and bring their colleagues with them on their cultural change journeys)

• Let’s Talk: Having Difficult Conversations (Practical hints and tips, with inclusive management practice at their core, to help you resolve difficult conversations at work)

• Managing Others Through Change

• Not Just a Tick-Box Exercise: Navigating employment law for inclusive managers

• Pause for Menopause (The 51 Employers Pledge & creating menopause-friendly workplaces)

Costs: £245 - £300 per workshop (including design time to shape the sessions to fit your organisation)

We are also happy to tailor or design completely new bite-sized learning and awareness sessions to suit your organisation's needs.

TDN's bespoke leadership, manager and employee workshops and coaching and mentoring services can be tailored to support any organisation wherever it is on its journey to a diverse and inclusive culture.

• Executive Coaching & DEI Mentoring for Leaders

• Workshop design and facilitation

• Meeting and strategy day facilitation

Example Programme Overview for 'Diversity Inclusion & Belonging for Leaders':

An exploration/cultural audit exercise might be carried out before the programme commences to create context around what diversity and inclusion looks and feels like in your organisation:

Four x 2.5 hour workshops over 3 months, supported by a dedicated coach-mentor for each delegate. 

Pre-programme 1:1 coaching session for each leader to explore their personal beliefs, concerns and aims for workplace culture and what they are hoping to achieve from the programme.

 1. Awareness and understanding of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in context - why it really matters to your workplace: the business case and exploring your organisation's 'why'. 

De-mystifying some of the language and theory. Gaining buy-in from your leadership team.

 2. Exploring and managing unconscious bias and frames of reference.  What is your role in cultural change?  What is an 'inclusive leader'? 

Inclusive people management tools and techniques.

Mid-programme coaching or mentoring session for each leader to help them explore and consolidate their learning so far and how they can share it with their teams.

 3. Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging in action - employee experience and de-biasing the way we do things; good practice, and cultural change management.

 4. Creating strategies for change, agreeing next steps and being accountable.

Post-programme coaching or mentoring session to explore their learning, the next steps for their own leadership growth and that of the culture of their team and/or the organisation.

Please contact us to discuss your facilitation needs or for more information on developing your in-house programme. 

TDN are proud to present our unique programme to support working women of all backgrounds with career development and wellbeing.

In our fast-changing and increasingly uncertain business landscape, the most successful businesses will be those with a greater diversity of talent at all levels.   However, there is much evidence to demonstrate that women face specific barriers and challenges in terms of both career progression and managing the balance between work and domestic responsibilities, that most of their male colleagues do not.   

The Programme:

1:1 coaching to identify your goals for the programme

3 half days workshops over 3 months:

• Qualities of being a woman & career development (Self assessment, Confidence & Developing Your Potential, Identifying Priorities & Removing Barriers)

• Developing a sense of self (Knowing Your Strengths, Developing Your Brand, Networking)

• Managing your performance (Improving your Health & Wellbeing, Work/Life Balance, Making it Happen)

Developing a personal development plan and an ongoing, supportive network to take you beyond the programme.

Please contact us for further information about Her Talent and dates for the next programme.

Cost: £595.  In the interests of enabling greater gender diversity across the working community we are delighted to offer 2 free places to female politicians and voluntary sector workers on each of our Her Talent programmes.