Valuing Diversity, Managing Difference Our Approach

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Valuing Diversity, Managing DifferenceOur
Approach

• Leadership
• Management Capability
• Individual (skills and strategies)
• Sensitisation
• Awareness

Continuum of Competence
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Encouraging Participation Building
CommitmentThere are three strategic priorities

• Awareness ensuring that top managers in Public
  Management understand what managing diversity
  means and how it enhances what they do
• Leadership developing leaders who can
  demonstrate a commitment to diversity and take
  personal responsibility to develop and meet
  diversity objectives
• Management Capability equipping, developing and
  supporting managers to promote and be accountable
  for managing diversity

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From Equality to DiversityImperatives for Change

• Group Focus
• Exclusive applications
• Piecemeal initiatives
• Integrating into existing
• culture
• Removing barriers
• Complying with the law

• Individual Focus
• Inclusive applications
• Business linked strategy
• Inclusion into an open culture
• Nurturing potential
• Developing best practice

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Actions for Change

• Leadership -The strategic imperative
• Leadership - The fit for purpose imperative
• Learning sharing in our workplaces/organisations
  and across public service
• Learning sharing, forging strategic alliances
  partnerships across sectors