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Course overview
A half-day course to create inclusive spaces for those wanting to better understand and support transgender, non-binary and gender non-confirming people in the workplace and beyond. By exploring the use of language, best practice and the law, this course will enable you to curate a safe, enabling, and thriving workplace environment.
Course fees:
- £235 plus VAT not-for-profit price (applies to charities and all other not-for-profit organisations, including public sector and housing)
- £260 plus VAT standard price (applies to all other organisations)
What you'll learn
After attending this course, you will:
- Understand the terms: transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming
- Know the difference between Sex and Gender
- Appreciate the importance of the LGBTQIA+ community as well as the need to respect and value differences of experience
- Understand the impact of names, pronouns, and gendered language
- Understand how Gender Reassignment is protected under equalities legislation: as well as recognise how to go above legal requirements
- Create a personal Action Plan to help you implement your learning in your organisation
Study method
- In-class
- Online
- Blended
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Duration study load
- Half-day
Pathways
- Building Belonging
- Equality Diversity and Inclusion
- Reverse Mentoring
- Anti-Bullying and Anti-Harassment
- Human resources: the essentials
Who's it for?
This course is for anyone who wants to better understand transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming people in the workplace, and beyond.
This course welcomes attendees at every stage of their career and is open to anyone who wants to curate a safe, enabling, and thriving workplace environment.
We also offer bespoke group training for 3-12 individuals from one organisation. If you would like to explore this option, please get in touch for a quote.
Subjects
This half-day interactive workshop has been developed to create an inclusive space for those who want to better understand and support their transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming colleagues, clients, and stakeholders.
With an emphasis on curiosity and kindness we will discuss some of the unique experiences, assumptions, joys, and challenges faced by transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming people.
We will explore the use of language, best practice, the importance of community, as well as the breadth of experiences and needs. We will listen to personal stories about identity affirming steps we can take as individuals and organisations as well as reflecting on how we can reduce the ways in which we may harm.
About Itec Skills and Employment
Itec has been a leading provider of work-based learning programmes for 40 years. As part of the ongoing strategy to place our people at the centre of the business and preserve the company as an independent organisation, Itec Training Solutions Holdings Limited became an employee-owned company in February 2019. We are proud to be the first Welsh independent training provider to become employee-owned, with 100% of the business now owned by our employee-owners.
We are one of the largest and most vocationally diverse work-based learning providers. In Wales holding Welsh Government contracts to deliver Apprenticeships and Jobs Growth Wales Plus (JGW+). In England we hold ESFA contracts to deliver Apprenticeships.
In 2014, we acquired The Centre for Strategy and Communication to support the strategic goal to diversify the business, offering commercial training to individuals and employers throughout the UK and worldwide. In 2021 we merged our Company’s (Itec Training Solutions Limited and Centre for Strategy and Communication), this merger was to enable the business to align and strengthen our brand.
Every day we transform people’s lives by helping them believe in themselves, become more motivated, helping them find employment, progress their careers, acquire new qualifications and skills, or set up in business. We support high-growth organisations to innovate and grow. Helping organisations in the private, public, and charity sectors to support priority and high-growth sectors to achieve their outcomes.
Our ethos is simple. We help individuals start and progress their careers by matching their skills with those of local employers. We ensure our programmes are meaningful, effective, valued, and sustainable to both individuals and employers.
We also offer Deep Dive Webinars on the Worker Protection Act 2024 and Employment Law Changes 2024. Please do enquire about dates and pricing.
