Learning and Development

Part of maintaining an inclusive work environment is providing opportunities for your employees to develop their skills and have experiences and training that enable them to continue to grow and add value to your organisation. Inclusive Employers guides you with:

  • opportunities and suggestions for how to implement learning and development throughout your organisation and the employment life cycle;
  • a downloadable inclusive learning and development policy template.

Here's a taste of what you'll read as a member on our website...

Learning and Development | Skilled, experienced and qualified staff improve your ability to respond to change flexibly and quickly, the service you offer to your customers, retention of experienced staff, inclusivity and your opportunities to secure and develop new business. | To maximise your potential for success, you can invest in the learning and development of staff by: - Inducting all new staff into the business, its values and standards and their role in particular. - Identifying learning and development needs through your annual appraisal process, which should apply to all employees. - Recognising that a wide range of learning and development opportunities, other than training, are available and that everyone has different learning styles. Support e-learning, mentoring, coaching, reading, secondments, job swaps, membership of working groups and project teams where you see that employees have the opportunity to learn and develop and assist the organisation in the process. - Ensuring that all managers have management development opportunities on an ongoing basis to enable them to deliver your goals relating to inclusivity and engagement. - Operating an appraisal scheme and work review system to monitor training and development needs. - Being sufficiently flexible to address requests for learning or development opportunities, which arise outside of the appraisal process. - Professionalising your workforce through attendance on vocational courses and professional courses (including to degree...

As a member, you'd get access to the full contents and other benefits, including supplementary inclusive policy templates and how-to guides on a range of topics, which make rights, responsibilities and legislation easy to understand and accessible for both HR teams and employees. They're free for members to download and available for non-members to purchase.

Members also enjoy free and reduced rate tickets to our events, including an introduction to inclusion and interactive sessions exploring inclusion and diversity, which can be tailored for in-house delivery. We'll keep you updated on the top news on inclusion each week, monthly case law briefings and are always available to answer legal queries through our helpline. 

If you'd like to learn more about membership, we invite you to read more on our site or to contact us at info@inclusiveemployers.co.uk or 020 7803 0689 to have a chat. If you're ready to join, you can do so right on our site by invoice or company credit card.

If you're already a member, log in to access full site contents, including our digital and downloadable resources.

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