This lecture looks at the course objectives and what can be learnt through inclusive leadership.

Before we start the course, here is a practical activity that encourages you to think about why you are taking the course and what you want to get from it.

This lecture introduces the skill and capability of working with feedback as an inclusive leader highlighting some of the challenges that this can present.

Defining what equality and diversity mean.

This lecture looks at the dimensions of diversity.  

The primary dimensions are those that you have no control over.  

The secondary dimensions are those that you can chose to share.

The area of neurodiversity has become very popular as a consideration in equality and diversity recently.  Neurodiversity covers the primary dimension associated with mental characteristics.  This lecture investigates these mental characteristics to give you a better understanding of neurodiversity in the workplace..

This lecture looks at how you build up a picture of the world through your senses and how these create your reality.

This video investigates how our conscious, subconscious and unconscious minds work and how this has an impact on the way that we and our biases.

This lecture looks at biases that are unconscious and so are those biases that you have no awareness of.

A look at ways that unconscious bias can be assessed and measured.

This video explores unconscious bias in more depth through some examples that you may not even have considered.  It also explores ways that you can work with and modify unconscious behaviour.

If you are unaware of your unconscious biases, how can you work with them?

This practical activity gets you to make a choice in a social situation. From this choice, you can to explore the reasons behind the choice underpinned by your unconscious biases reflecting upon how these impact upon other decisions that you make.

This lecture introduces the concept of inclusive leadership.

Is the Platinum Rule the overriding rule that we should all live our lives by?

A brief look at unacceptable behaviour and unaccepting behaviour.

This lecture covers effective and respectful ways to give people feedback about their behaviour.

This lecture covers the best way to respond to feedback that you receive about your behaviour.

Self-awareness is a fundamental part of emotional intelligence and good leadership.  This lesson looks at self-awareness as a leadership capability - its advantages and disadvantages.

This lecture looks at what being an inclusive leader is all about.

This lecture investigates the principles of ethical leadership and how these can influence you as an inclusive leader.

This lecture gives details about the six traits shown by all inclusive leaders.

There are four key inclusive leadership behaviours - Empowerment, Accountability, Courage and Humility.  Together they build trust in your capacity as an inclusive leader.

Curiosity involves keeping your mind open to other's views and perspectives.  It is fundamental to being an inclusive leader who embraces diversity.

This lecture gives a range of hints and tips to give you strategies to become a more inclusive leader in work.  These are also covered in the accompanying downloadable booklet "Strategies for Inclusive Leaders" along with a range of hints and tips to give you strategies outside of work.

Building upon the strategies for inclusive leaders, this lecture gives special consideration to working towards neurodiversity inclusivity. 

Microaggression is a term used for commonplace verbal, behavioural or environmental comments, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative attitudes toward stigmatised or culturally marginalised groups.  This video investigates some of the more common forms of microaggressions in the workplace.

This lecture looks at the competencies shown by inclusive leaders.

This practical activity asks you to review six statements looking at the traits of inclusive leaders and to rate yourself between 1 and 10 according to how your work with and demonstrate each trait.

Following this, you should get someone else to rate you - a friend, a colleague or a manager.

Compare and contrast the scores and using this information you can create an action plan to help you to develop further as an inclusive leader.

Cross cultural communication is a field of study that investigates how people from different cultural backgrounds communicate in similar and different ways amongst themselves and how they endeavour to communicate across cultures.

Learning some of the basics about culture and some of the language of communication in different countries is important.

An inclusive leader needs to demand mutual acceptance and understanding from everybody.

The Trompenaar and Hampden-Turner Cultural Model is a model of national culture differences is a framework for cross-cultural communication applied to general business and management.

Universalism is the belief that ideas and practices can be applied everywhere without modification, while particularism is the belief that circumstances dictate how ideas and practices should be applied.

Individualism refers to people regarding themselves as individuals, while communitarianism refers to people regarding themselves as part of a group.

A specific culture is one in which individuals have a large public space they readily share with others and small private space guard closely and share with only close friends and associates.  A diffuse culture is one in which public space and private space are similar in size and individuals guard their public space carefully, because entry into public space affords entry into private space as well.

A neutral culture is a culture in which emotions are held in check whereas an emotional culture is a culture in which emotions are expressed openly and naturally.

In an achievement culture, people are accorded status based on how well they perform their functions. In an ascription culture, status is based on who or what a person is.

A sequential time culture is the one in which the people like events to happen in a chronological order.  Synchronous time cultures see specific time periods as interwoven periods.

In inner directed cultures, people believe in controlling outcomes and have a dominant attitude toward environment. In outer directed cultures, people believe in letting things take their own course and have a more flexible attitude, characterised by a willingness to compromise and maintain harmony with nature.

Here are some final thoughts and further considerations as an inclusive leader around cross cultural communication.

This video explores how thinking works, what it means and considers some valuable examples of critical thinking.

Critical thinking is critical in diversity.  This lecture explains why.

This lecture defines critical thinking.

Critical thinking is critical in emotional intelligence.  This lecture explains why.

This lecture investigates some of the flaws that the brain has around thinking.

This lecture covers the two thinking systems as defined by psychologist Daniel Kahneman.

This video explores how we process information using the two thinking systems.

A look at some ways to improve critical thinking skills.

This lecture explores important values of inclusive leadership and how to develop habits and attitudes that overcome bias.

The lecture also covers critical questions that will help.

Further thoughts about thinking and further thoughts about inclusive leadership.

This is a practical activity to test your critical thinking skills through a series of fun questions.

This is a practical activity to conclude the course.  It requires you to consider your goals and objectives for taking the course that you set for yourself at the beginning of the course.

You can easily build this activity into your team meetings to build and enhance your reputation as a leader. 

Using this well, will help you to develop the emotional intelligence of your team.

A few concluding thoughts around the course and around equality, diversion and inclusion.

This video will help you if you are having issues accessing your Certificate of Completion.