A journalist at HR Grapevine would like to know: What are the benefits of a diverse workforce? New figures have revealed the growing number of employees moving from Asia and Africa to the UK to work under the post-Brexit skilled workforce migration system. What can HR practitioners do to cultivate a thriving diverse workforce?

What are the benefits of a diverse workforce?

A diverse workforce is more than just about innovation or increasing productivity. It's more than representation and looking good to clients and stakeholders. A diverse workforce is about creating cultures where everyone can grow and thrive and contribute to the overall organisational purpose and mission of your organisation. A place where everyone feels they belong and their voices can be heard. For this to happen senior leaders need to create psychological safety and cultures where individual identities are nurtured to ensure that everyone performs to their full potential. This can only happen when individuals can show up as their authentic selves and be supported to thrive. However, creating a diverse workforce is merely the first step the real challenge is keeping your workforce and nurturing every member. This means exploring issues of belonging, challenging biases and opening up conversations in a way that everyone can contribute and feel safe.

Dr Shungu Hilda M'gadzah

Dr Shungu Hilda M’gadzah is a Chartered Educational Psychologist, consultant psychologist, author, executive coach and founder of the Six Stages Framework (SSF), with more than 30 years’ experience across psychology, education, leadership and inclusion. Her work focuses on human behaviour, particularly how individuals, groups and systems respond to difference, discomfort, bias, belonging and social change. She provides expert psychological insight on racism and bias, psychological safety, education, SEND, neurodiversity, leadership, emotional intelligence, escalation and extremism. She is Director and Lead Consultant Psychologist at Inclusion Psychologists Ltd and also works as an expert witness in SEND and clinical negligence. Dr M’gadzah holds a Professional Doctorate in Educational and Child Psychology, with doctoral research in Emotional Intelligence. She is a former Chair of the British Psychological Society’s Division of Educational and Child Psychology and was the first Black person to hold that role. Her work includes books, articles, podcasts and practical psychological resources designed to support reflection, inclusion and meaningful change.

If you are looking for growth and innovation within your business, having a diverse workforce that provides diversity of thought, is an absolute must. In a future of work where 'work from home' will become 'work from anywhere' creating a culture of inclusion through a diverse workforce will be a core function of any HR team. The diversity mix will also need to include how the digital workers will also co-exist with a companies human workers, and this will rely on people moving to Outcomes, which supports the digital workers who work to outputs.  It's a whole new world of work! 

Cheney Hamilton

Cheney Hamilton is CEO & Founder of The Find Your Flex Group. She is a noted Thought Leader on Outcome based working, Targeted Operating Model Change and a member of the All Party Parliamentary Group for the Future of Work and regularly shares research and gives evidence to Government and The Senedd.

Cheney advocates on the need for careers with flexibility and business that operate without fixed costs. She encourages this by the use of outcome-based working and job descriptions, changing a companies ability to target and attract the most talented and diverse employees. 
 
Bringing together industry leading HR specialists to deliver focused one hour 'power' sessions for her clients and their teams, covering topics such as a Journey to Mutable, & An Intro to Outcome-based working. 
 
Cheney regularly speaks at Industry learning, Career and Future of Work events and has received several awards for Culture, Sustainability, Entrepreneurship, Championing Women and Community Making. 
 
Her job & social media platform reaches over 1.3M people each month, providing industry insight into many challenging areas of recruitment and people - in addition to promoting lots of flexible Jobs.

What are the benefits of a diverse workforce?

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Dr Shungu Hilda M'gadzah

Consultant Psychologist at Inclusion Psychologists Limited

Cheney Hamilton

CEO at The Find Your Flex Group

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