We saw an opportunity for our people managers and supervisors to gain a better understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion whilst providing a safe space for open conversations to take place. Raising awareness of the benefits to individuals and our business of a diverse workforce, and to reflect on the experiences of colleagues was a key focus. Additionally appropriate workplace language was a key objective as our controllers communicate remotely via a radio system and we have had instances where some of our people have been mis-gendered.
Whilst we already have an established employee equality network in our London business, Stagecoach Group networks have now been launched UK wide for our people. The opportunity to promote these and share the benefits of these was also a key element.
Whilst the initial thoughts around who would be in scope to participate in this learning were our people managers and supervisors, we also felt there were other key influencers and therefore we included our resourcing and training team, our bus garage support teams, and members of our ‘Everyone Equal’ employee network.
