Diversity, Inclusion and teamworking Flashcards
What is diversity?
Diversity in a business context is hiring and promoting employees from a variety of different backgrounds and identities.
Why is Diversity important?
The profession needs to attract and retain the best talent regardless of gender, race, disability, neurodiversity, class or socio-economic background, religion, sexual orientation or age.
Diversity is a proven route to greater creativity and innovation, which are essential qualities in a fast changing world.
What is DEI?
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
What is Diversity?
Diversity is who we are as humans. Everyone is diverse from education to religious beliefs. Some aspects of diversity are visible while others are not.
What is Equity?
Equity recognises that not all employees have been given an equal chance either growing up or as they entered the workplace, whilst equality in the workplace provides employees with equal opportunities (one size fits all). Equity seeks to address that imbalance by ensuring a person has the right tools and support to fulfil their potential whatever their starting point.
What is inclusion?
Inclusion is part of a workplace’s culture and is a choice to include or exclude people from conversations, projects or events. By taking positive inclusive actions we can make people comfortable so they can be their whole selves at work.
What is effective teamwork?
Effective teamwork can be a group of individuals collaborating on a project together.
Areas of teamworking include listening, discussing, persuading, respect, helping, sharing, participating, communication, reflection.
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How can a diverse group of professionals help tackle a problem effectively?
Working with a diverse group of professionals can help to tackle problems effectively as they may having differing views and recognise aspects that otherwise may not be unveiled.
How do you make sure you are up to date with diversity and inclusion?
I have undertaken CPD in Diversity and inclusion through Wethrive Surveys which are available on our training portal.
I am aware that the RICS has launches the ‘Developing Inclusive Culture’ – guidance developed with the help of RICS members an DEI experts. Which helps to reflect good practice encouraging diversity and inclusion.
Actions for large firms?
- Look at ways you can remove bias from recruitment, using structured interviews and diverse hiring panels
- Support employee groups that support different communities
- Provide training for staff on your policies and inclusive practice
Actions for smaller firms?
- Think about how you recruit to attract a wide range of talent
- Put in place policies covering: acceptable behaviour, well-being and caring responsibilities
- Think about how you measure performance and reward it – does exclude anyone?
- Ask staff about the culture of your company and your behaviour as a leader.
Actions for a sole practitioner?
- Think about how your offices could be more accessible for visiting clients
- Consider how to make your website and other communications accessible to all prospective clients
- If you offer work experience, think about whether you could offer opportunities to people from different backgrounds
- Explore ways to diversify your supply chain and champion minority owned businesses
What is unconscious bias?
How a person thinks can depend on their life experiences and sometimes they have beliefs and views about other people that might not be right or reasonable
Or the associations we hold which are ingrained and outside our conscious awareness or control.
The associations are influenced by attitudes formed from our experience during our upbring and education.
Unconscious biases can be assessed through Implicit Assumption Testing
Unconscious bias can effect how we interact with people
The RICS has signed a Memorandum of Understanding Action Plan (MoU) intended to create a more equitable and inclusive sector in order to be more representative of the society they serve.
