It is vital to hire an independent contractor to assess your workplace culture, employee involvement in hiring, retention, promotion, wage, and leadership policies to get started with Diversity and Inclusion.

From here, most contractors will provide your organization with findings of your assessment and recommend various training that can educate the various teams on the areas that require improvement.

After the training, the organization should proceed with creating a Diversity and Inclusion Strategy for the entire organization.

Think of it as a surgeon performing surgery to replace a broken hip. If the surgeon is trained and qualified, the results are highly likely to be excellent; if they are not, the results will be catastrophic!

Assessments show the organizations where the darkness exists while awareness/training illuminates the dark paths so that travellers can travel safely

Remember that you cannot achieve Inclusion without components of justice or fairness, including the attributes of equity and creating safe spaces for others (belonging).

It is fair to note that it is repetitive to have both Equity & Inclusion in your wording.

It is therefore fitting to simply have Diversity & Inclusion.

Any organization can finish all the training within 4 days!

Other organizations have achieved this goal by having 3 trainings once a month for 4 months.

It is really up to the organization to decide how fast they want to achieve the awareness goal as it influences the duration it will take before an organizational Diversity, and Inclusion Strategy is created!

Capability Career Group works with all kinds of organizations.

From small, mid-sized to large, we serve them all.

For various Not-for-Profit and Calgary Police Service, we met their needs by creating custom made awareness courses/workshops

Considering that all our awareness modules/courses/workshops have 42 hours altogether, most organizations within Alberta can qualify for the CANADA-ALBERTA JOB GRANT to pay up to 75% of employer incurred costs of training for each employee.

The process includes first paying Capability Career Group for the training of each employee then requesting a refund from the funders before your first training date begins.

Please check this link for funding details https://www.alberta.ca/canada-alberta-job-grant.aspx

Please note that this information is not a guarantee that your organizations will receive funding to facilitate the awareness stage of your Diversity & Inclusion pursuits