CONSULTANCY SERVICES

ProDiverse offers a range of consultancy services to help you transform your organisation:

Diversity consultancy

• Diversity audits
• Diversity away days
• Research projects
• Impact assessment
•  Strategy development, including Race Equality Schemes, Disability Equality Schemes, and Gender Equality Schemes
• Implementation guidance (e.g. diversity and appraisal schemes)
•  Writing diversity literature
• Support and Advisory Services leading to Diversity assured accreditation
  

Diversity audits

Our consultants will work with you on a diversity health check covering:

• Aims and objectives for diversity
• Buy in/ownership at every level
• Audit of staffing and board composition
• How do you compare with other organisations in your field?

• Strategies – what diversity strategies and policies do you have in place, how effective are they? Are there diversity strands in other corporate strategies? Do you work within a strategic diversity framework established for your field?

• Skills – Do you have dedicated staffing for diversity? Have you trained your staff? Do they understand and feel confident about the organisation’s approach to diversity?
  
• Systems- what systems and procedures do you have in place to support diversity? Are your systems generally inclusive? What about procurement?
  
• Standards – what KPIs do you have for diversity? How do your customer care standards support inclusiveness? What accessibility standards do you have in place? Do you have diversity standards for your communications?
  

Research projects
Our experienced consultancy team includes academics who can work with you on more in-depth research projects to support your diversity thinking.

Impact Assessments
We can work with you to develop stakeholder programmes to assess the impact of your work. Our team of consultants and researcher will work with you to establish clear aims and objectives and design the most effective research programmes including quantitative surveys, focus groups, stakeholder panels, planning for real days, benchmarking. We will analyse the results and help you identify the key issues facing your organisation.
Strategy development

Our team will work with your people to develop a diversity strategy, which is owned at every level in your organisation, and which is linked to your corporate aims.

We will work with your people to develop a diversity strategy, which is owned at every level in your organisation, and which is linked to your corporate aims.

We will work with individual teams to help them assess their strengths and weaknesses, understand the feedback from impact assessment work, and develop SMART objectives to make their area of work more inclusive. We will then help you bring together the various strands into strategy, which will provide a strong and effective framework for action for the whole organisation with clear monitoring and evaluation. This approach works well for the development and improvement of equality schemes.

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