This event is facilitated by Paul Skovron a respected and experienced LGBT trainer .

Does your organisation treat LGBT employees the same as heterosexual staff?

Do your LGBT employees feel safe and able to be themselves at work?

What is the cost to your business of poor LGBT inclusion?

What are the mental health issues facing LGBT employees?

Is there conflict in your organisation causing LGBT discrimination?

What is talent? Are you able to find the right talent to bring into your organisation? How does this accommodate LGBT candidates?

What makes your business a place where LGBT people want to work?

Are you able to retain the valuable LGBT people?

How do you nurture and grow LGBT Talent?

Can your LGBT employees be authentic and bring their whole selves to work?

Do you understand the symptoms and root causes of LGBT conflict in your organisation?

What’s the impact of disengaged (LGBT) employees on productivity?

Is there a glass ceiling for LGBT?

Profit is King!” That is how being successful in the business world can be seen. But frequently that comes at a price as companies look to maximise their income, reduce costs, and satisfy shareholders.

Organisations today are focusing on efficiency, productivity, profit, service improvements, and customers. Many of them ignore the benefits of a diverse workforce and fail to capitalise on their LGBT employees.

There are some organisations who believe they are diverse; feel they are inclusive; and consider they are leaders in diversity. But are they really including LGBT into the workplace?.

Do you know what you can do differently with LGBT employees to make your organisation more successful?

This workshop will be an interactive session where you will discover that it is possible to change the way you do things in small and simple ways.

We will explore the challenges, issues and opportunities faced by both employers and employees in relation to LGBT in the workplace.

You will

•   Learn how employee policies and practices need to cater for LGBT people.
•   Understand the opportunities for attracting, recruiting and retaining LGBT employees as well as explore the cost of recruitment in failing to keep LGBT employees.
•   Recognise the challenges for LGBT employees to be authentic in the workplace and how to encourage a safe environment for LGBT to grow and develop
•   Be able to identify the barriers to career development for LGBT people at all levels and any obstacles creating a glass ceiling for LGBT C suite.
•   Explore the pathway to leadership for LGBT and the substantial positive impact this has on an organisations productivity and profit
•   Discover the significant successfully outcomes of LGBT leadership on employees, customers and suppliers.
•   Recognise the root causes and symptoms of LGBT related conflict
•   Explore the challenges and impact that a toxic boss / employee has an LGBT people
•   Reflect on how LGBT diversity can transform your organisation

•   Why it is key to employ LGBT people that are a good organisational fit, who bring talent and different ways of thinking, to develop the business financially and culturally.
•   Why it is important to broaden the definition of talent and look at this with an LGBT lens to see how organisations can benefit from a wider pool of talent.

We will also look into the challenges of confidentiality and stigma when considering actions to support LGBT employees.

Attending this session will provide you with some valuable thinking time on the importance of not only attracting LGBT talent but keeping and retaining that talent. It will also provide you with insights how to implement transformational improvements to benefit your (prospective) employees, your customers and the organisation.

When you leave this session, you will have some golden nuggets to start you on this journey that will position you to take small and simple and steps to create an inclusive LGBT culture.

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