Equality Impact Analysis

Equality Impact Analysis is a fundamental approach that helps ensure processes, schemes or changes within your organisation are maximising the opportunity to promote inclusion and not inadvertently disadvantaging or excluding certain groups.

Why You Need It

It can often be viewed as an overly bureaucratic tick box exercise that adds minimal value, but if conducted properly and proportionately, Equality Impact Analysis adds value by helping you to better meet the needs of customers and colleagues across the board, avoiding costly mistakes and revisions.

What You Will Learn

JHB C&C training will enable you to understand the importance of Equality Impact Analysis: how it can enhance your work; increase performance and capacity for innovation; and most importantly customer satisfaction. We will cover the basics of Equality Impact Analysis and equip you with practical tools to develop and utilise an Equality Impact Analysis mindset, so you feel confident to apply this to the different stages of decision making. 

We will explore:

• What we mean by Equality Impact Analysis and its benefits;

• How Equality Impact Analysis relates to the Equality Act 2010;

• The key elements of the ‘Equality Impact Analysis mindset’ and when, where and how this should be applied;

• Best practice and tips on how to conduct an Equality Impact Analysis;

• Practical experience of conducting the different stages of an Equality Impact Analysis;

• Ideas on how best to embed an Equality Impact Analysis approach within your organisation to encourage all staff to be involved so that key decisions receive sufficient attention.

Who Will Benefit
 

• Policy writers and developer

• Project leads

• Managers leading change at any level, where there is an impact on staff, customers, the public or visitors

• Diversity and inclusion professionals

• HR colleagues

What is Our Approach

A fun, engaging and thoughtful approach underpins all JHB C&C  training and we ensure audience/delegate appropriate HR policy, legal and case law touchpoints are included.

We focus on behavioural change that is hard wired to your organisation’s purpose, values and frameworks.

Our training is packed with tips, techniques and practical takeaways.