3.6 Create standardized training plan with mandatory trainings for all employees
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Description of Best Practices
Identify essential employee trainings in a training plan with:
- Clear goals and timelines
- Tools to track employee training progress
- Measures to ensure that trainings are conducted without bias and support company values on gender and inclusion
- Measures to ensure women and men have equal opportunities to participate and indirect discrimination is counteracted
Typical must-have trainings include:
- Corporate strategies and policies, including company values and guiding principles (e.g., performance management, leadership values, etc.)
- Tools used within the company (e.g., communication tools, time tracking tools, project management tools, etc.)
- Anti-discrimination, gender awareness, unconscious bias
- Health and Safety
Challenges of Implementation
Company may lack structured process to assess must-have trainings and setting up training plan
Training and skill development may happen on an ad hoc basis, but not with a long-term plan
Company may not have sufficient resources to train all employees at once
What Success Looks Like
Good training plan in place with mid-term and long-term goals and target groups identified
Gender gaps can be addressed through trainings for different target groups
Gender equality, D&I, and other values are addressed in standard trainings or through specialized trainings
Women and men feel equally well-equipped to perform within the company
Resources and Tools
AVAILABLE RESOURCES AND TOOLS
Tool: 13+ Sample Training Needs Assessment Templates (Sample Templates)
Tool: A tool for assessing the gender impact of spending on skills and training (Close the Gap)