How to make the most of your diversity and inclusion membership with Inclusive Employers

Access a library of Members’ Resources

Our Members’ Resources area is full of information for you to pick up, use and disseminate across your organisation.  Our catalogue covers resources on a growing and evolving range of topics.

Valuable resources already prepared

I often think back to my days when I was responsible for in-house I&D, trying to do everything, including hours of research for different pieces of work, I wished I had somewhere I could go for support. That’s the value of your diversity and inclusion membership with Inclusive Employers. Our Members’ Resources area aims to have everything you need, it’s been well-researched and you can trust the information and share it with others in your organisation.

Members’ Resources for everyone in your organisation

Think about who else could benefit from the Members’ Resources area; managers responsible for particular areas, people with passion for particular topics, or your networks and inclusion groups.  You can sign them up as a user to gain direct access. The resources are designed for anyone working in I&D to achieve their goals more effectively.

Your organisation will have a primary contact who is responsible for managing your inclusion and diversity membership account. This person can add as many team members as possible to gain access to the support available in the Members’ Resources area of the website.

How to navigate the member’s area of the website

Take the time to familiarise yourself with our how-to guides to help navigate the member’s area:

• Booking onto an event 
• Adding a user to your team
• Setting up a Team Manager 
• Click here to view our FAQs

If you have any questions about anything covered in these guides, you can get in touch with your account manager or our Members’ Desk, who will be happy to help.

Book your members places on our free webinars

Our inclusion and diversity webinars are designed and delivered by our expert consultant team and allow you to absorb knowledge from our expert and diverse team.

The webinar programme is released six months in advance, which gives you time to plan who will go along from your organisation, to make sure so you use all five free membership places at each event.

Share the webinar learning across your organisation

Once you or a colleague has attended a webinar, you can spread the learning wider by adding the webinar topic as an agenda item for your team meeting, allowing the attendee to feedback the key learnings or takeaways. Some member organisations even host the webinars on a big screen and invite all colleagues to attend.

If there are times when you need extra resources and support on a webinar topic, or only a few colleagues have been able to attend, you can still brush up using the other sources of information included in your diversity and inclusion membership. Our blogs, awareness day pages and resources are reliable tools for self-learning and sharing with colleagues to highlight a particular topics or events.

As part of your membership, Inclusive Employers give access to one webinar recording every month. These are shared in the monthly member’s email shared by your account manager.

Use the training or consultancy time included in your membership

Don’t forget to use your training/consultancy time. It is a valuable opportunity to progress your inclusion work and make an impact.

Corporate Membership includes half a day of consultancy or training which can be used in these different ways:

• Delivery of a 2-hour workshop for up to 15 people.
• Delivery of 2 webinars (which can be recorded and sent to you) for up to 300 people.
• Review of 2-3 policies or processes.
• A facilitated conversation with key stakeholders to plan or develop your I&D strategy.
• A review with written feedback on a strategy or action plan.

This level of support can help kick-start your I&D projects and give you a sense of the quality of support offered as part of your diversity and inclusion membership.

If you’ve opted for a Partnership Membership, you will have an additional seven days of consultancy to deep dive into your specific inclusion challenges.

Take advantage of discounted Inclusive Employers products

Having an diversity and inclusion membership with Inclusive Employers gives you a 10% discount on our other products, including our:

• Range of CMI qualifications in Inclusion & Diversity.
• Inclusive Employers Standard workplace accreditation tool.
• Anti-Racism toolkit for workplaces.

Celebrate your diversity and inclusion membership status

Broadcast your membership! This could be in your internal newsletters as well as demonstrating your commitment to fostering an inclusive workplace on your career’s website.

Display our ‘Committed Member’ logo and link to our Inclusive Employers website to provide a signpost to other colleagues wanting to explore the benefits of membership.

And finally, my last words of wisdom are to spread your knowledge. Don’t keep Inclusive Employers to yourself, bring everyone on board. If there’s anything you would like to see, let us know! It is possibly something we already have in the pipeline.

Next steps for your diversity and inclusion membership

If you are already a member of Inclusive Employers and reading this has inspired you to draw on your membership further – great news! Please be sure to share your ideas with your account manager in your next monthly catch-up.

If you’re a non-member who would like to know more about how a diversity and inclusion membership with Inclusive Employers can support the progress of I&D in your organisation, we would love to chat with you more. It’s easy to get in touch using the form below, we look forward to hearing from you.