Business Human Resources

Workplace Diversity and Inclusion

Build a more equitable, respectful, and high-performing workplace through practical inclusion strategies.

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Quick Course Facts
15
Self-paced, Online, Lessons
15
Videos and/or Narrated Presentations
5.0
Approximate Hours of Course Media
About the Workplace Diversity and Inclusion Course

This Workplace Diversity and Inclusion course helps you understand how inclusion, equity, and belonging shape everyday business outcomes. You’ll learn practical ways to build a more equitable, respectful, and high-performing workplace through practical inclusion strategies. within your teams, policies, and communication.

Build Workplace Diversity and Inclusion Strategies That Improve Business Performance

  • Learn the core concepts behind Workplace Diversity and Inclusion and how they connect to better collaboration and decision-making
  • Recognize unconscious and structural bias so you can reduce exclusion in hiring, meetings, feedback, and advancement
  • Strengthen inclusive communication, leadership, and conflict management across diverse teams
  • Create an action plan for your Business that supports accessibility, fairness, and accountability

Practical training for building equitable, respectful, and inclusive workplace systems.

In this course, you’ll start with the foundations of Workplace Diversity and Inclusion, then move into the key differences between diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. From there, you’ll examine how bias affects workplace decisions, how exclusion shows up in everyday interactions, and what inclusive communication looks like in practice.

You’ll also explore inclusive meeting habits, fair hiring and onboarding, accessible workplace design, and respectful responses to microaggressions. The course goes further by showing how managers can support psychological safety, fair performance management, and stronger trust across diverse teams. These lessons are designed to help you apply inclusion strategies in real Business settings, not just understand the theory.

By the end of the course, you’ll be able to identify barriers, measure inclusion efforts, and create a practical action plan that supports more consistent and meaningful change. You will leave with the skills and confidence to help shape a workplace where more people can participate, contribute, and succeed.

Course Lessons

Full lesson breakdown

Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.

Foundations and Why They Matter

1 lesson

This lesson introduces the core idea of workplace diversity and inclusion and explains why both matter in modern organizations. Learners will distinguish diversity from inclusion, see how they are con…

Key Terms and Distinctions

1 lesson

Lesson 2: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging

18 min
This lesson clarifies the core language of workplace inclusion: diversity , equity , inclusion , and belonging . You will learn what each term means, how the concepts differ, and why they matter toget…

Recognizing Unconscious and Structural Bias

1 lesson

Lesson 3: How Bias Shapes Workplace Decisions

22 min
This lesson explains how unconscious bias and structural bias shape everyday workplace decisions, often without clear intent or awareness. Learners will see how bias can affect hiring, performance rev…

Common Barriers and Warning Signs

1 lesson

Lesson 4: Identifying Exclusion in Everyday Workplaces

18 min
This lesson helps learners recognize exclusion in everyday workplace behavior before it turns into larger culture problems. It focuses on common barriers such as uneven access to information, recurrin…

Language, Tone, and Participation

1 lesson

Lesson 5: Inclusive Communication at Work

20 min
This lesson shows how inclusive communication improves trust, clarity, and participation at work. Students learn practical ways to use language, tone, and meeting habits that make it easier for people…

Practices That Support Equal Participation

1 lesson

Lesson 6: Building Inclusive Meetings and Collaboration

18 min
Inclusive meetings and collaboration are designed so more people can contribute, be heard, and influence outcomes. In this lesson, learners practice simple, repeatable habits that reduce common barrie…

Reducing Bias in Talent Processes

1 lesson

Lesson 7: Inclusive Hiring and Onboarding

22 min
This lesson shows how to reduce bias in hiring and onboarding by using structured, consistent processes. Learners will see how to write clearer job criteria, screen candidates more fairly, run intervi…

Creating Work Environments for Everyone

1 lesson

Lesson 8: Accessibility and Workplace Design

20 min
Accessibility and workplace design are about removing barriers so people can do their best work. That includes physical spaces, digital tools, communication formats, and everyday processes that affect…

Understanding, Interrupting, and Addressing Harm

1 lesson

Lesson 9: Microaggressions and Respectful Response

22 min
Microaggressions are subtle, often unintentional comments or behaviors that can still cause real harm, especially when they target identity or belonging. In this lesson, learners will recognize common…

Communication, Mediation, and Trust

1 lesson

Lesson 10: Managing Conflict in Diverse Teams

18 min
Conflict in diverse teams is not a sign that inclusion has failed. In many workplaces, it is a predictable result of different communication styles, cultural norms, power dynamics, and personal experi…

What Managers Do Differently

1 lesson

Lesson 11: Inclusive Leadership Behaviors

20 min
Inclusive leadership is not a separate program from management; it is the everyday behavior that helps people contribute fully, feel respected, and trust the team. In this lesson, managers learn what …

Building Trust and Voice on Teams

1 lesson

Lesson 12: Supporting Psychological Safety

18 min
This lesson explains psychological safety as the foundation for honest communication, learning, and inclusion on teams. Learners will see how leaders and coworkers can create conditions where people f…

Evaluation, Feedback, and Advancement

1 lesson

Lesson 13: Fair Performance Management

22 min
Fair performance management means evaluating people using clear standards, consistent evidence, and bias-aware processes so that feedback and advancement decisions are based on actual performance rath…

Metrics, Surveys, and Follow-Through

1 lesson

Lesson 14: Measuring Inclusion and Accountability

20 min
This lesson explains how to measure whether inclusion efforts are actually working. Learners will see how to combine people data, survey feedback, and behavioral signals to understand the employee exp…

Applying the Course in Real Settings

1 lesson

Lesson 15: Creating an Action Plan for Your Workplace

25 min
This lesson helps learners turn workplace diversity and inclusion concepts into a practical action plan they can actually use. It focuses on setting clear goals, choosing realistic interventions, assi…
About Your Instructor
Professor Amanda Davis

Professor Amanda Davis

Professor Amanda Davis guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.