Inclusive Employers Inclusive Cultures in Sport Programme
To support much-needed change within the sector, we have a fresh experience of delivering meaningful education programmes that lead to systemic change.
These programmes take a systems approach, recognising that many traditional learning and development interventions may lead to increased awareness and skills for individual participants but don’t necessarily lead to a shift in organisational culture, which to be sustained requires broad and consistent engagement from across the organisation.
The structure of our systems change programmes
Here is an insight into the structure of our systems change programmes:
Peer learning
We can accommodate a large number of participants from across one sport or several different sports/organisations and offer them an interactive and engaging tiered inclusion learning experience tailored to their role and level of influence.
Typical programme tiers cater for Board members, CEOs, SLT members and the wider workforce (paid and unpaid). Participants on each tier mix with participants from other organisations during this element of the programme, to enable them to learn and share best practices.
Individual learning
We develop and host a bespoke library of sport and physical activity inclusion resources, toolkits and learning materials to supplement participants’ own self-directed learning.
Organisational learning
We offer a series of facilitated sessions or action learning sets at key points in the programme for each individual organisation, this enables all the programme participants from the organisation to come together to reflect on their learning and identify and commit to actions at an organisational level that lead to transformational change.
We also offer an ongoing and multi-tier evaluation of the programme to measure its impact and identify learning and progress.
Examples of our Inclusive Culture in Sports Programme
Our Leading for Renewal programme is an example of this approach. A yearlong programme for Sport England-funded systems partners that builds their inclusion capacity and is helping to meet the aspirations of Uniting the Movement. The programme was carefully evaluated and has led to significant impact and change.
‘I think the leading for renewal programme has been a significant vehicle for change. I would say as an organisation and as an individual, going from unconsciously to consciously putting inclusion on the agenda of everything we do. I’ve seen it from our Director or Exec Level… how do we need to consider inclusion? That is a question that is coming up in regularly in conversation’.
‘I think it’s been the support infrastructure for me to be comfortably uncomfortable and actually have something, that if I don’t know, I know where I can go in a safe secured space. I think that’s really important’.
‘I think the whole thing has been a great blend of really good learning, really good information that we’ve got. I never thought of that, or I might have forgotten that, or gosh, that’s the new way of looking at it. And then sharing with peers on what they’re doing and taking ideas and confidence from each other, a great blend’.