Diversity, Inclusion and Teamworking L1

Question 1

What are the 9 protected characteristcs from the Equality Act 2010?

Equality Act 2010 replaces the DDA Act 1995

Answer 1

1. Gender Reassignment
2. Sex
3. Sexual Orientation
4. Age
5. Disability
6. Race
7. Reigion
8. Marital Status
9. Pregnacy and Maternity

Question 2

What is unconcious bias?

Answer 2

Learned stereotypes that are unintentional, deeply ingrained, and able to influence our behavior

Question 3

How do we mitigate unconcious bias?

Answer 3

1. Accept
2. Blind Recruitment
3. Recognise protected characterists
4. Monitor Behaviour - Avoid assumptions
5. Training

Question 4

What action has RICS taken to promote Diversity and inclusion?

1 QUALITY AND 1 STRATEGY

Answer 4

1. RICS Inclusive Employers Quality Mark - 6 principles
2. Recent - RICS Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) scheme - Plans to impove diversity within rics with feedback and benchmarking

Question 5

What key skills are useful for effective teamworking?

Answer 5

Listening – to other people’s ideas
Discussing – team members to ask questions and interact
Persuading – individuals to consider their positions
Respect – treating team maters with respect and support their ideas
Helping – to encourage team work
Sharing – information to create a positive team environment
Participating – ensuring all team members get involved
Communication – have effective communication skills to allow team members to work together
Reflection - identifying strengths and weaknesses

Question 6

Shorter Answer (What key skills are useful for effective teamworking?)

Answer 6

Listening, discussing, respecting, participation, respoonsibilty, helping, also reflecting (idenftying strenghts and weakness)