Inclusion is essential in today's legal workplace, both for individuals and for organisations. The SBS Core Inclusion Program comprises ten self-paced courses designed to provide core skills and knowledge around supporting diversity in the workplace.

The Appropriate workplace behaviour course outlines the types of behaviours that are not conducive to a respectful and inclusive workplace, the impacts of inappropriate behaviours, and the action to take if you witness or experience them.

By completing this course you will gain new skills, including being able to:

• Identify behaviour that may be discrimination, harassment, bullying, vilification, or victimisation
• Explain the concepts of ‘reasonable management action’ and ‘special measures’
• Describe the benefits of a diverse and inclusive workplace
• Explain why it is important for observers of inappropriate behaviour to speak out
• Find appropriate resources and know what to do if you need to make a complaint or need support
• Explain the concept of ‘duty of care’
• Explain the differences between sexual harassment and sex-based harassment
• Understand how ‘positive duty’ from the Respect@Work Act applies to employers
• List the seven domains (identified in the Respect@Work report) where organisations need to take action to prevent and respond to sexual harassment
• Explain what psychosocial hazards are
• Explain how trauma can exist in the workplace
• Identify three things people can do to improve their mental health and their general resilience

• Discrimination, harassment and bullying
• Impacts and actions
• Respect@Work
• Psychosocial hazards and trauma (created in collaboration with Phoenix Australia)

Inclusion is essential in today's legal workplace, both for individuals and for organisations. The SBS Core Inclusion Program comprises ten self-paced courses designed to provide core skills and knowledge around supporting diversity in the workplace.

The Disability course provides information and first-person stories to improve understanding of disability in all its guises, and show how employment options for people with disability can be improved and embraced

On completion of the Disability course, you should be able to:

• Give some examples of the many different types of disability that people can experience
• Identify some of the benefits of employing people with disability
• Explain the medical and social models of disability
• Describe the term ‘neurodiversity’
• Give some examples of how employers can support employees who may have a mental health condition
• Explain what ‘adjustments’ are, and how these can help organisations to include people with disability
• Identify three ways that employers can make the recruitment process more accessible to people with disability
• Explain the meaning of the initialism ‘ATP’
• Outline how organisations can benefit from of knowing the disability status of their staff, and how they can encourage employees to share this information
• Describe how conscious biases may sometimes play out when a manager is considering the employment or progression of a person with disability

This course consists of four modules:

• Why disability inclusion?
• Everyone is different
• How to include people
• Building capability

The course was created by SBS in collaboration with the Australian Network on Disability.

Inclusion is essential in today's legal workplace, both for individuals and for organisations. The SBS Core Inclusion Program comprises ten self-paced courses designed to provide core skills and knowledge around supporting diversity in the workplace.

The LGBTIQ+ course is designed to improve understanding of the LGBTIQ+ community. It provides knowledge and tools to promote a fairer, more LGBTIQ+ inclusive workplace and society.

Upon completion of the LGBTIQ+ course, you should be able to:

• Explain the meaning of the letters/characters in the initialism LGBTIQ+
• Give examples of the benefits LGBTIQ+ inclusion brings to organisations, societies and individuals
• Use inclusive language that embraces the LGBTIQ+ community
• Explain what is meant by ‘coming out’
• Define ‘gender identity’
• Describe the term ‘intersex’
• Explain the process of ‘transitioning’
• Identify unhelpful and harmful language that may be offensive to people from the LGBTIQ+ community
• Outline the importance and possibilities of allies
• Describe some of the positive effects of LGBTIQ+ symbols within a workplace
• Appreciate the significance of LGBTIQ+ role models, and the impacts they can have on the community
• Give at least three examples of workplace initiatives that actively support LGBTIQ+ inclusion

This course consists of three modules:

• Why LGBTIQ+ inclusion?
• Gender diversity
• Supporting LGBTIQ+

Inclusion is essential in today's legal workplace, both for individuals and for organisations. The SBS Core Inclusion Program comprises ten self-paced courses designed to provide core skills and knowledge around supporting diversity in the workplace.

The Gender equity course is designed to improve understanding of gender equality in the workplace. It provides tools and information to encourage the conditions and cultures that will enable women to thrive at work.

 Upon completion of the Gender equity course, you should be able to:

• Describe what is meant by gender equality.
• List some of the reasons why gender equality does not exist.
• Identify some of the opportunities for organisations and broader society if true gender equality is to exist.
• Explain what is meant by 'everyday sexism' and give some examples.
• Explain the difference between sexual harassment and sex-based harassment.
• Describe the term ‘positive duty’ from the Respect@Work Act and how this applies to employers.
• List the seven domains (identified in the Respect@Work report) where organisations need to take action to prevent and respond to sexual harassment.
• Recognise potential signs that a work colleague may be in an abusive relationship.
• Give at least three examples of how organisations can support survivors of domestic and family violence.
• Give examples of measures organisations can take to recruit more women into their workforce.
• Explain the gender pay gap.
• Identify at least three ways organisations can give women an equitable opportunity to progress and advance.
• Describe some of the benefits to organisations that offer flexible ways of working.

 This course consists of three modules:

• Why gender inclusion?
• Sexual harassment and domestic violence
• Women and the workplace

The course draws on the research and experience of organisations within the Champions of Change Coalition, and the University of Queensland.

Inclusion is essential in today's legal workplace, both for individuals and for organisations. The SBS Core Inclusion Program comprises eight self-paced courses designed to provide core skills and knowledge around supporting diversity in the workplace.

The Cultural Diversity course explores concepts such as cultural differences and similarities, and the impact of population trends in Australia. It provides culturally specific knowledge and practical skills that can be used to make the workplace more inclusive.

On completion of the Cultural diversity course, you should be able to:

• Understand what culture is, and recognise that it impacts all aspects of behaviour
• Understand that cultures have similarities and differences, especially with relation to direct / indirect communication, the perception of time, and greetings
• Understand the importance of family across cultures
• Recall Hofstede’s dimensions and how they can be used to measure differences in values across cultures
• Recognise the concept of ‘face’ and examples of how ‘face’ is expressed in some cultural contexts
• Understand how written, verbal and non-verbal expressions might vary across cultures
• Understand how environment and object language vary across cultures
• Identify obstacles to successful cross-cultural communication and measures that can be used to negate differences
• Define the different stages of cultural adaptation, understand how they may impact a person, and identify measures that facilitate a smooth transition through the stages
• Understand historical and current migration trends and the impact on the Australian population and in relation to Australian religious diversity
• Understand historical and current population trends for Indigenous Australians
• Gain an insight into the changing values of Australia

This course consists of five modules:

• Cultural diversity themes
• Dimensions of cultural diversity
• Cross-cultural communication
• Cultural adaptation
• Australia by the numbers 

Robert Bean, Managing Director of Cultural Diversity Services, and the Australian Multicultural Foundation were major contributors to the course.

Inclusion is essential in today's legal workplace, both for individuals and for organisations. The SBS Core Inclusion Program comprises ten self-paced courses designed to provide core skills and knowledge around supporting diversity in the workplace.

The Core inclusion course outlines the overarching inclusion principles and provides tools for promoting diversity, to help make organisations more inclusive of a range of individuals and communities.

At the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Describe ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion’
• Describe the four key elements that need to be experienced by individuals in order to achieve inclusion in the workplace
• Explain the concept of ‘intersectionality’ and its impact on inclusion
• Give examples of the benefits of having an inclusive organisational culture
• Recognise the differences between stereotypes and generalisations and relate these to your own behaviour
• Recognise that everyone has unconscious biases, and that workplace practices and decision making can be negatively affected by unconscious bias and assumptions
• Explain the concept of ‘groupthink’ and its impact on decision making
• Apply different strategies to reduce the impact of unconscious bias
• Utilise core inclusion skills or ‘people skills’ - such as curiosity, respect and open-ended questions
• Describe strategies an organisation can take to create a truly inclusive environment
• Recognise the role of workplace flexibility as a key enabler of inclusion
• Describe the concepts of universal and inclusive design

This course consists of four modules:

• What is diversity and inclusion?
• Unconscious bias
• Core inclusion skills
• How to be inclusive