• Inclusive organization culture: Why is D&I important to me and my organization? How can I stimulate the development of an inclusive culture? How can I maintain and sustain this?

• Strategic change management: How can I get my organisation moving in the direction of inclusion? How do I deal with opposition? How can I find opportunities and how to avoid pit falls?

• Inclusive leadership practices: How can I contribute to an inclusive culture? How can I reflect on my own thoughts, feelings and behaviour in the context of D&I? How can I set a good example?

• Inclusive communication: How can I communicate in an inclusive way? How can my organization make its internal and external communication more inclusive?

The course is designed for advisors, policy makers, managers, and project and programme leaders who are tasked with or responsible for:

• Creating D&I policy;
• Realising D&I and employee wellbeing goals;
• Recruiting and selecting diverse staff members;
• Creating an inclusive working environment.

The participants will tackle dilemmas from their own work together with scholars from different disciplines and experienced practitioners within a supportive learning environment. 

At the end of the course, you will be able to:

1. Articulate what diversity, and inclusion are and what organizational practices, structures and systems contribute to D&I;
2. Unravel diversity dilemmas, stimulate policy development and promote inclusion on the work floor;
3. Formulate SMART D&I goals for your organisation;
4. Use inclusive communication and self-reflection skills in order to become an inclusive leader

You will prepare for the first day by doing an inclusion scan. This scan can help you to reflect on how inclusive your own thinking, actions and awareness are.

The course is divided into two blocks of two consecutive days. In the time between the two blocks you can make an individual appointment with Dr. Kate Kirk to discuss a course assignment related to your challenges and goals.

The CPL Programme Lead D&I, Dr. Kate Kirk and the CPL fellow D&I, Dr. Saniye Çelik ensure a high quality learning experience.

For general questions you can contact the Centre for Professional Learning:

T: 0708009504
E: learning@fgga.leidenuniv.nl   

Please note that all upcoming open courses listed below, at least until autumn 2023, will be given in Dutch. We hope to offer this course in English soon as well. Are you interested in a custom or incompany D&I course in English? Please contact our programme leader Dr. Kate Kirk.

Spring 2023 (in Dutch):
M1: 9 and 10 March
M2: 23 March and 24 March

Summer 2023 (in Dutch):
M1: 1 and 2 June 
M2: 22 and 23 June 

Autumn 2023 (in Dutch):
M1:  2 and 3 November 
M2: 16 and 17 November

Cost: € 2,195 per participant

Location: Leiden University Campus The Hague

Upon completion of the course, you will receive the accompanying certificate from the Centre for Professional Learning, Faculty Governance and Global Affairs – Leiden University.

• Could you tell me a bit more about the content of the 4-day course?
  This course connects academic research and everyday real-life dilemmas brought to the course by participants and instructors. The course is led by a programme leader with both practical and scientific experience in the field of D&I. She is responsible for providing an overarching structure, ensuring quality, and personal attention to each participant. 

  Scholars and experienced practitioners will be invited to give interactive lectures and workshops related to: change management, inclusive culture,  inclusive communication, and inclusive leadership. Together with the programme leader, participants will form a community of learning in which they will bring their own dilemmas and goals.

• Is there a specific theoretical foundation regarding D&I  that will be applied during the course?
  D&I will be highlighted from different scientific disciplines: HRM, change management, psychology, anthropology, public administration, sociology and communication.

• Is the aim of the course more geared towards organisational processes or more towards communication?
  The emphasis will be on organisational change, communication is an important part of this.

• Will we mainly learn how to use the inclusion scan or will there be other tools too?
  The inclusion scan will be one of the tools. It helps us to understand how to promote connection and authenticity. It is a tool that will help you start conversations on inclusion and self-reflection before the course begins. We will also be working with other tools which promote self-reflection/ organizational reflection and inclusive communication such as the Harvard “immunity to change”  and case methods.