FY17 GID Training Overview

Leading a Diverse Workforce:
Inclusive Leadership through Mindfulness (ILTM)

Leading a Diverse Workforce: Inclusive Leadership through Mindfulness is an interactive learning experience
designed to enable our managers and executives to understand how behaviors and beliefs ("unconscious bias") create
unintended barriers to diverse employees. The course introduces leaders to the concept of practicing mindful leadership
to mitigate unconscious bias and defining and hold self accountable to actions required at the project and individual level
to create an inclusive work environment.

Program Objectives Performance Outcomes Other Details
• Audience: Manager
• Develop participant’s understanding of • Define diversity and articulate the
what Diversity means at Accenture, business imperative for inclusion and and above
diversity • Duration: 2 hours
• Understand how behaviors and beliefs • Delivery Approach:
("unconscious bias") create • Identify their own unconscious bias
unintended barriers to life cycle and explain impact bias may have in – Option 1: Class room
management of diverse employees, decision making – Option 2: Blended Solution (Virtual

• Increase the effectiveness of our • Understand the challenges and + Classroom)
executive in leading a diverse opportunities in leading a diverse and • Frequency: On Demand
workforce. inclusive workforce

• Define and commit to actions taken at
project and individual level

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“Diversity Matters!” in Recruitment Training (DM)

“Diversity Matters!” in Recruitment is an interactive learning experience designed to enable our executives, hiring
managers and recruiters understand how behaviors and beliefs ("unconscious bias") may create unintended barriers to
candidates. The course is designed to provide knowledge, tools and practical actions for recruiting a diverse workforce
and offers long term support and attracting strategies to create an inclusive workforce.

Program Objectives Performance Outcomes Other Details
• Audience: Recruitment teams
• Learn about ‘Unconscious Bias’ and • Define diversity and articulate the • Duration: 2.5 hours
how impacts decision making in business imperative for inclusion • Delivery Approach:
recruiting process, and diversity in the context of
recruiting, – Option 1: Class room, for critical
• Examine how behaviors and beliefs mass of 15 or more
("unconscious bias") create • Understand what is ‘Unconscious
unintended barriers that can lead to Bias’ and how it can impact decision – Option 2: Virtual, for locations with
positive biases – micro-advantages or making in recruitment process, fewer than 15
negative – micro-inequities,
• Engage in open dialogue on how to • Classroom and Virtual with a CBT
• Increase the number of diverse successfully overcome these barriers online follow up training
candidates hired to recruit a diverse workforce,
• Frequency: On Demand
• Define and commit to actions taken by
recruiting teams and at individual level
.

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Diversity Principles in Motion (DPIM)

The Diversity Principle in Motion is a 60 minutes CBT designed to examine perceptions and behaviors towards
different groups and helps employees recognize inappropriate behaviors related to differences in the workplace and
makes them aware of resources available to address these behaviors

Learning Objectives myLearning Details

• Understand Accenture's commitment • Course Code: Z38917
to and the importance of inclusion and
diversity, • Link:
https://mylearning.accenture.com/acc
• Recognize and learn how to address enture/langen/management/LMS_Act
inappropriate behaviors related to Details.asp?ActId=297460
differences in the workplace,

• Understand vehicles in place to help
address negative behaviors,

• Become aware of the existence
of Accenture policies related to
inclusion and diversity.

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Understanding Unconscious Bias

Understanding Unconscious Bias is a 45 minutes CBT designed to examine how behaviors and beliefs ("unconscious
bias") can create unintended barriers to diverse employees. The course is designed to help them acquire a deeper
understanding of the types of behaviors that result in a more inclusive environment and take actions required at the
project and individual level to create an inclusive work environment. Through examination of some manifestations of
unconscious bias in the workplace, participants learn techniques to mitigate its effects in order to result in a more
inclusive environment, as well as gain an understanding of their role.

Learning Objectives Performance Outcomes myLearning Details

• Develop participant’s understanding of • Define unconscious bias, • Course Code Z27781
what diversity and inclusion means to
Accenture • Identify the impact unconscious bias • Link
may have on business decisions https://mylearning.accenture.com/acc
• Introduction to unconscious bias and (recruiting, career progression and enture/langen/management/LMS_Act
explanation on how may create development, roles and Details.asp?UserMode=0&ActivityID=
unintended barriers in the workplace responsibilities, promotions, etc.), 985568&returnURL=

• Describe responsibilities in mitigating
unconscious bias and the impact of
micro-behaviors,

• Develop an action plan on how to
support inclusion and diversity.

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