Project Inclusion: Intentional Inclusion At Workplace
Company culture “is like the wind — while invisible, its effect can be both seen and felt.” ~ Peter Brackett.
Diversity in numbers is relatively easy to achieve, the bigger challenge is whether or not employees experience inclusion – a great predictor for long-lasting change, driving business success.
Companies with a culture based on trust, collaboration, and inclusion – in which each person feels safe, accepted, respected and valued for their distinct skills, capabilities and individual experiences, feels comfortable speaking up and has the opportunity to participate fully, feel engaged and reach their full potential.
Project Inclusion
Facilitate organizations to be future-ready, leverage the power of diversity and create an equitable culture that meets the needs of all stakeholders, where every individual feels engaged and valued, enabling sustainable business and growth. Like in music where each note has a different sound but when the notes come together they make a melodious tune. Diversity in the workplace, where each individual brings different experiences, knowledge, perspective and style, when they come together magic happens.
1. Orchestrating Inclusion: a workshop series
a) Road to Self-Mastery: Inclusion starts with self. The workshop emphasises on self-Leadership for becoming an inclusive leader
b) Composing the People Ensemble: Workshop for People Leadership to manage and foster an inclusive environment in their teams
c) Symphony of Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging: Program for Strategic Decision makers responsible for cultivating a culture of Inclusion and Belonging
2. Collaborative Choreography : Our consulting model towards Becoming an Inclusive Workplace.”
You Asked, We Answered : Diversity & Inclusion In The Workplace
Project Inclusion is an initiative designed to help organizations become future-ready by leveraging the power of diversity and creating an equitable culture. This culture aims to meet the needs of all stakeholders, ensuring that every individual feels engaged and valued.
Diversity is important because it brings different experiences, knowledge, perspectives, and styles together. When these diverse elements come together, they create a dynamic and innovative environment, much like a melodious tune composed of different musical notes.
Project Inclusion helps organizations achieve diversity by fostering a culture based on trust, collaboration, and inclusion. This culture ensures that each person feels safe, accepted, respected, and valued for their unique skills and experiences.
Diversity refers to the presence of differences within a given setting, including race, gender, age, and other attributes. Inclusion, on the other hand, is about creating an environment where all individuals feel respected, accepted, and able to fully participate and contribute to the organization.
Yes, Project Inclusion can be tailored to fit the specific needs of different organizations. The initiative is designed to be flexible and adaptable, allowing it to address the unique challenges and opportunities within each organization.
Queer-inclusive workplace: Sensitization,
awareness and Allyship workshops
awareness and Allyship workshops
Queer inclusion interventions play a crucial role in promoting diversity, fostering inclusivity, and creating a workplace where all employees feel respected, valued, and supported, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity. The journey towards an inclusive workplace starts with gaining deeper understanding of the lives of the queer community, sensitising the challenges they experience and becoming an ally to the community.
Value-based inclusive Leadership:
Diversity is in numbers and inclusion is in spirit. Inclusion can never be left to chance and has to be intentional. The value-base inclusive leadership embarks the leaders on a journey to understanding and appreciating differences and building a culture of belonging and empathy. While building the culture, the values of the organisation are kept at a forefront.
Cross Culture Connections:
The modern workplace continues to evolve in a globalized landscape, and cross-cultural awareness emerges as a key factor for business success. Collaboration within diverse teams brings together contrasting viewpoints and approaches, enriching organizational dynamics. For a diverse team to perform collectively towards a common goal, effectively navigating cultural disparities becomes essential to fully leverage the advantages of diversity. Our Cross-Cultural Connections program builds on differences and helps the team understand the context and become aware of the specific needs of different cultures.
Queer-inclusive Workplace: Sensitization, Awareness and Allyship Workshops
Queer inclusion interventions play a crucial role in promoting diversity, fostering inclusivity, and creating a workplace where all employees feel respected, valued, and supported, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity. The journey towards an inclusive workplace starts with gaining deeper understanding of the lives of the queer community, sensitising the challenges they experience and becoming an ally to the community.
Value-based Inclusive Leadership
Diversity is in numbers and inclusion is in spirit. Inclusion can never be left to chance and has to be intentional. The value-base inclusive leadership embarks the leaders on a journey to understanding and appreciating differences and building a culture of belonging and empathy. While building the culture, the values of the organisation are kept at a forefront.
Cross Culture Connections
The modern workplace continues to evolve in a globalized landscape, and cross-cultural awareness emerges as a key factor for business success. Collaboration within diverse teams brings together contrasting viewpoints and approaches, enriching organizational dynamics. For a diverse team to perform collectively towards a common goal, effectively navigating cultural disparities becomes essential to fully leverage the advantages of diversity. Our Cross-Cultural Connections program builds on differences and helps the team understand the context and become aware of the specific needs of different cultures.
Short Programs
Health Conclave
A game based program to bring forth the biases in people decisions. The program helps participants with a tool to minimise bias in their people decisions at the workplace
Breathe Easy
One crucial detractor in the organisation’s attempt to build a culture of belonging is & “Labels”. Sensitizing various stakeholders to the consequences of using labels, for oneself and others and the harm caused to the overall ecosystem contributes to building an inclusive environment at the workplace. This 4-hour session will inspire participants to appreciate the limiting the nature of labels and finding ways to overcome them.
Mera Wala Purple
“Mera Wala Purple” provides a peek into this diversity of human experiences and then draws our attention to how simple generic principles can provide us guidance to create a space for intentional inclusion for ourselves and others” The session takes the participants through instances of exclusion and supporting them tools to deal with exclusion.
Halo and Horn effect: Understanding Bias
Biases can impact interpersonal relationships at the workplace. It also influences our decisions about people, who we hire, promote, retain, and nominate for stretch assignments, sometimes even without our knowledge. The workshop helps participants understand the origin and nature of bias, and explore ways to minimise the impact bias in situations.
Testimonials
Other Programs
Unconscious Bias
Biases are human. Bias is a social stereotype one holds about certain groups of people, impacting the people-decisions. Our systemic interventions help build awareness of the biases and mitigate their impact by bringing about behavioural change and in the process furthering the inclusion agenda in your organisation.
Project Inclusion
Our end-to-end DEI consulting model supports organisations in the journey to create a culture of belonging through Intentional Inclusion. We work with your organisation to further your organisation’s goal of building an inclusive culture and moving from intent to impact.
Women's Leadership Potential
Ananya-Women@Work is our flagship program for women in their mid-management position to unleash their leadership potential. The journey-based program for women complements your organisation’s effort in building a strong talent pipeline for leadership positions.
Mentoring & Coaching
Mentoring and Coaching have been long recognized to benefit the mentees, the coachees and the organisation. The gains to the mentor/coach are, now, also being recognized and recorded. We support your organisation in building a culture where mentoring becomes a way of life.
Employee Assistance Program
We work with you to build programs/interventions based on your unique needs and organisational culture. These need-based and transformational interventions are designed especially to truly inspire, influence and Impact results.
PoSH
Everyone has a right to be treated with respect and dignity. Moving beyond the mandate of “Sexual Harassment of at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act 2013”, we support your organisation to build a culture where respect and dignity thrive.