Future-Proof Organizations through Diversity. The guide to understand diversity, and drive inclusion and belonging in an organization.

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The Journey to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging SpecializationIE Business School

What you will learn

Understand and identify demographic, cognitive and experiential diversity as a tool for solving challenges in an organization.
Implement and promote inclusive practices that allow a diverse organization to thrive.
Create and shape the spaces, environments and behaviors of an organization to ensure belonging of all its members.
·Examine why diversity without inclusion is not enough
·Understand what covering is and why it happens
·Apply inquiry to inclusion

Skills you will gain

About this Specialization

This Specialization aims to explore the different existing diversities, the basic demographic categories, such as: gender, race, disabilities, age, or sexual orientation as well as experiential and cognitive diversities. It also analyzes each form of diversity, how they were formed in the past and how they act in today’s organizations. In addition, it gives the learner the opportunity to gain abilities to deal with unconscious bias and to learn how to include everyone in a team. Finally, it focuses on how to create safe spaces of belonging in an organization.

Applied Learning Project

The courses feature a combination of graded quizzes to test and remember key learnings, as well as peer-review assignments with the goal of implementing the tools learned in an organizational context. The assignments were created by experts to encourage students to reflect on their own experience in organizations with diversity.

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English

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There are 4 Courses in this Specialization

Course1

Course 1

Fundamentals of Diversity

In this course, we will arrive at the first port of our Diversity Inclusion and Belonging Journey, the Fundamentals of Diversity.

The course will provide you with the basic tools to be able to navigate diversity. The course will bring you an understanding of the fundamental categories of diversity , and will particularly focus on demographic diversity including gender, ethnicity, race, disability, aging or physical appearance. it will also help you to identify the challenges posed by diversity, and finally you will gain a working knowledge of how to manage diversity in organizations and teams. This course is designed for all: students and young professionals, as well as older and senior professionals looking for a better understanding of what diversity is and the role it plays in the organization.

Course2

Course 2

Cognitive and Experiential Diversity

In this course, we explore the nature of cognitive and experiential diversity, as understanding these invisible forms of diversity is essential to meet the needs of an organization.

Cognitive and experiential diversity is needed to drive innovation and disruption. To address the challenges of the future, we must understand the cognitive and experiential backgrounds needed to tackle every challenge that comes our way. During the course, we will build models to guide us in measuring these different cognitive and experiential backgrounds and how we can leverage each in an organization.

Course3

Course 3

Diversity and Belonging in Businesses and Organizations

Diversity and Belonging in Businesses and Organizations will help you as an individual, as a team, and an organization to better understand and implement policies and practices that emphasize and promote not only the inclusion but the belonging of all employees. It is aimed to cover the following objectives:

Policies - How to identify and understand the ways in which structural dynamics of an organization can preclude a sense of belonging and how to use inclusive policies as a tool to foster belonging. Practices - How to design an organizational culture that promotes the wellbeing and belonging of all its constituents through kindness, empathy, openness, and compassion. People - How to leverage the creation of affinity groups and task forces to overcome structural biases, build community and create a greater sense of belonging. The final module also introduces complementary resources to bring the pillars together and support an organization's belonging efforts.

Course4

Course 4

Diversity with Inclusion in Organizations

For any group to perform at its best, it’s important that its members feel valued.

This can only be achieved if the team, beginning with the team leader, fosters an environment of inclusion where each person has the opportunity to contribute and is valued for his or her distinctive skills and perspectives. We’ll be introducing you to established frameworks, including Kathryn Sorrells’ Intercultural Praxis Model, which will serve as the guide for this course. Through this model, we’ll learn how to raise awareness about our reactions to difference, optimize critical analysis, and develop responsible social action. In this course we’ll also review some of the basic concepts that make up the process of inclusion. We’ll discuss theories surrounding inclusion in organizations, and we’ll provide you with strategies on how to react when a moment of exclusion, occurs within your team. Aside from foundational knowledge, you’ll take away from this course a practical toolkit for fostering an inclusive environment. This course can be taken independent of or along with the companion courses: Fundamentals of Diversity; Cognitive and Experiential Diversity and Belonging in Diversity-Oriented Businesses and Organizations.

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IE Business School

IE Business School is an internationally recognized business school where the leaders of tomorrow shape their ideas and learn to become global citizens. For over 40 years, IE Business School has promoted innovation and change in organizations, equipping managers with an entrepreneurial mindset that generates employment, wealth, and social well-being.

Regularly featured among the top business schools in the world, IE Business School has an urban campus in Madrid and a faculty of more than 400 professors who teach students from approximately 90 countries in its undergraduate and master programs. IE uses innovative online, face-to-face, and blended learning formats, including the IE Communities Platform where knowledge and experiences are exchanged with over 50,000 IE graduates that currently hold management positions in more than 100 countries worldwide.

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Is this course really 100% online? Do I need to attend any classes in person?
This course is completely online, so there’s no need to show up to a classroom in person. You can access your lectures, readings and assignments anytime and anywhere via the web or your mobile device.
How long does it take to complete the Specialization?
1.5-2 hours a week, for 16 weeks (4 weeks per program). However, this is a self-paced program, so students may manage their time according to their own needs.
What background knowledge is necessary?
While no background is necessary, it is recommended to have experience in any organization.
Do I need to take the courses in a specific order?
It is highly recommended to follow the courses in order.
Will I earn university credit for completing the Specialization?
No university credit is attributed to this course.
What will I be able to do upon completing the Specialization?
Participants will understand the spectrum of diversity and have the ability to drive the conversation around inclusivity and belonging according to the needs of their organization.

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What you will learn

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