Marshall E-Learning Consultancy is excited to share the latest addition to its extensive eLearning course library. The latest advanced diversity skills range is designed to empower organisations with the knowledge, resources, and tools needed to drive impactful change. Each of these five courses contributes to creating inclusive workplace cultures across all sectors, ensuring that organisations understand the importance of all employees feeling recognised, accepted, and valued for their contribution.

The advanced diversity skills range comprises five micro eLearning courses: each takes 15 minutes to complete. Micro eLearning courses are a versatile and accessible training solution, especially for busy corporations. As many organisations are still coming to terms with the changed landscape of the working world since the Covid-19 pandemic, they can rest assured that these easy-access, relevant, and streamlined courses have been adapted to suit this new framework.

The Advanced Diversity Skills Range encompasses five new presenter-led eLearning courses:

1. Inclusive Recruiting

Targeted at hiring managers and other recruitment-based professionals, this eLearning course emphasises the necessity of recruiting inclusively to the benefit of your employees and your wider organisation. This course develops learner understanding of the benefits of an inclusive workplace and provides a useful guide on designing inclusive job descriptions and person specifications.

2. Inclusive Line Management

Targeted at line managers across any industry, this eLearning course provides learners with digestible information on how to strengthen their skills as an inclusive line manager. This course encourages learners to reflect on their own personal biases, whilst detailing core qualities and behaviours to avoid as an inclusive line manager.

3. Measuring DEI

Targeted at diversity and inclusion practitioners, or those in other roles responsible for diversity and inclusion, this eLearning course empowers learners with the ability to measure DEI across their organisation confidently and effectively. It features guides on measurement methods such as dashboards and scorecards, as well as key information on the value of qualitative and quantitative data in DEI assessment. This course guides learners to apply best practice when presenting findings of DEI progress.

4. Leading Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Boards and Senior Teams

Targeted at board members, senior teams, and senior leadership individuals, this eLearning course equips learners with the necessary knowledge, skills, and tools to lead inclusively and foster a welcoming, positive, and diverse culture. Considering the business case of DEI, alongside strategies for inclusive leadership, this course showcases to learners what inclusive leadership looks like.

5. Influential DEI Change Agent

Targeted at individuals who take on roles to support organizational DEI activities and strategies, such as diversity and inclusion ambassadors, this eLearning course is designed to strengthen the confidence and effectiveness of DEI change agents across an organisation. It offers guidance on how to kickstart conversations about DEI, how to challenge discriminatory behaviour, and the importance of considering personal actions to improve your influence as a change agent.

Each of these advanced diversity-skills-range courses was written by Ann Allcock, our head of diversity and the former head of diversity at Business in the Community. They were developed in response to our clients wanting a mature approach to diversity and inclusion training instead of training of this nature strictly being an issue of compliance.

The entire team at Marshall E-Learning Consultancy are extremely proud of the new advanced diversity skills range. The timing of National Inclusion Week 2023, with its theme of "Take Action, Make Impact", has lined up perfectly for our launch, with these new courses being a strong steppingstone for organisations to take action and make meaningful impact on their employees and their wider culture.