Religion and Dress at Work Online Short Course
Course description
This research-based online short course will help organisations support religious dress codes in the workplace and respond more effectively to some of the challenges that may arise to foster effective workplace relations.
The training introduces new knowledge about the significance of religious and belief-based dress as a workplace factor that impacts on individuals and affects organisational culture, functionality, and reputation.
Who should attend this online short course?
This online short course is aimed at managers, HR professionals, and diversity practitioners (including employee network chairs) in the creative industries who are interested in how religion and belief, including non-belief, play a role in the workplace.
It is also an excellent fit for individuals new to the creative sector or who aspire to work in it, and want to learn more about how religion, belief, and worldview plays a role in inclusion and diversity.
Those who contribute to religious and community organisations and intercultural dialogue will find value on our exploration of how belief and worldview can contribute to creative practice.
Outcomes
After this session, you will:
- Gain an understanding of how people’s dress, hair, and style at work can trigger stereotypes.
- Develop visual observation skills to counter discrimination in recruitment, corporate messaging, service delivery, client relations, and mission delivery.
- Develop familiarity with the language of modesty and shame, exploring how this might foster effective workplace relations and communication strategies that help individuals, organisations, and policy makers avoid generalisations and offence.
- Step outside of your individual perspective and more fully engage with another point of view.
- Have developed your empathetic skills for building respectful and open conversation.
- Be able to critically evaluate the extent to which an individual’s dress should or should not be included in diversity guidance and compliance protocols.
- Reflect on how intersectional social positioning affects individual and collective workplace priority setting.
- Be encouraged to think creatively about tactics for navigating competing demands.
- Explore new ways of measuring success and failure, in a context where there may often be more than one ‘right’ answer.
This online short course offers:
- Expert knowledge from industry professionals
- Opportunities to meet other like-minded creatives
- A chance to join the conversation with a live Q&A
- Opportunity to upskill and develop professional practices
- Participants will receive a certificate upon completion.
Available dates
Make an enquiry or call us on 0207 514 7015.
Details
Topics to be covered:
- The role of dress, hair, and appearance in triggering stereotypes about religion and belief.
- The role of language in fostering effective workplace relations and communication strategies that can help avoid generalisations and offence.
- Visual observation skills and how they can be used to counter discrimination in recruitment, corporate messaging, service delivery, client relations, and mission delivery.
- Intersectionality and how social positioning affects individual and collective workplace priority setting.
- Empathetic skills for building respectful and open conversation.
Materials
To take part in this webinar session you will need:
- An up-to-date web browser (we recommend Chrome)
- Microphone and headphones (a headset with a microphone function is recommended. The built-in microphone in your device would also be fine)
- Webcam
- Strong Internet connection - we recommend a minimum of 2 Mbps download, and 1 Mbps upload, faster if possible. You can test your network speed here - https://www.speedtest.net
We recommend you have:
- A notebook
- A pen
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