Equality outcomes and mainstreaming report 2019

Annex D: Flier used during Senior Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Objective Challenge

Painting the bigger picture through 4 supported challenges

Challenge 1: What does the data and research say about your business area?

Challenge 2: What's it like to work in your business area and how does your inclusive leadership style impact on others?

Challenge 3: How to apply a Diversity and Inclusion lens to embed inclusive approaches in everything we do?

Challenge 4: How are we articulating, sharing and checking in on progress of the improvement action we're taking?

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Diversity and Inclusion Improvement

To support SCS colleagues to set meaningful diversity and inclusion objectives, which reflect local contexts and help to:

√ create a positive, inclusive culture

√ increase the capability of teams

√ support the Scottish Government's diversity and inclusion agenda

An improvement challenge will be set each month between October 2018 and March 2019.

This will lead to refined, refreshed or rewritten diversity objectives, with success measures and a communication plan to inform and check in with staff on progress throughout 2019/20 reporting year.

Challenge 2: Are you an inclusive leader?

Look at the research:

1. Read the reports on creating a diverse and inclusive workplace from the King Fund and this report on Inclusive Leadership from Catalyst - they're both pinned to the D&I yammer page

2. Connect the research to what you learnt previously about people's experiences in your area

Critically consider:

3. What is culture like at the team level in your area? How does your leadership impact on this?

4. How do you empower and support others to ensure all voices are heard? Whose voices are you not hearing?

Reflection point: Do your employees feel you value of a diversity of voices, views, skills, experiences and backgrounds? How do you know?

What might you start doing?

What might you stop doing?

What might you continue doing?

Talking point:

How might you engage others?

Meet with staff to understand team-level culture

Seek reflections on your inclusive leadership style