Top 10 Free Diversity Training Programs

Diversity and Inclusion is a free online course available on Mitti (by SafetyCulture) designed to help your employees embrace their differences in the workplace. In this course, your employees will understand the value of diversity key concepts in fostering diversity and inclusivity. It then elaborates on how to recognize and eliminate unconscious biases. It also provides guidelines on cultivating an inclusive culture, including ways to incorporate it in communicating with co-workers and creating employee resource groups.

This course is available in Mitti (by SafetyCulture)’s library, making it readily deployable for your teams. No need to start from scratch! It doesn’t only make it convenient for you but also equally ensures that it is effective for your employees through its microlearning format. This approach makes key information more digestible. Combined with gamification features and sensitivity training exercises, the lessons in this course make learning more fun and engaging.

Scope: Introduction to diversity and inclusion, unconscious bias, cultivating an inclusive organization, and inclusive language

Diversity Training 101 by Universal Class was created to strengthen acceptance and solidarity among organizations, especially for human-resources departments that continue to expand and do recruitment. This diversity training program starts off with an overview of diversity, including differences in cultures and personalities. It provides a comprehensive guide on ways to overcome barriers and communicate properly in a diverse and inclusive workplace. It also tackles an understanding of sexual orientations that helps your employees recognize forms of sexual harassment in the workplace. Lessons in Universal Class are designed for self-paced video learning that is only accessible via a web browser. It also includes review articles and exams for each lesson. Upon course completion, a minimum of 70 percent final is required to earn a certification.

Scope: Defining diversity in the workplace, overcoming barriers to diversity, communicating in a diverse workplace, identifying signs of sexual harassment in the workplace, and implementing diversity in the workplace

Communication with Diverse Audiences is a diversity training program by the University of Surrey that is hosted on FutureLearn. It aims to help your employees improve communication skills in a diverse environment such as the workplace. Its lessons cover topics such as the role of culture and language, and unconscious bias. It also uncovers strategies in using language to establish rapport and building interpersonal relationships. In FutureLearn, courses are delivered through bite-sized videos and also include articles, audio, and practical activities. Lessons are divided into weeks that can be completed at the own convenience of your learners.

Scope: Role of culture and language in communication, language & unconscious bias, different communication strategies, and using language to establish interpersonal relationships

What is Gender and Why Gender Equality is a free online course authored by UNITAR that is hosted on Mitti (by SafetyCulture). This 4-part course begins by tackling gender disparities and then dives into a deeper understanding of gender and the stereotypes around it. It also emphasizes the value of gender equality and how your employees can take part in the cause. Then, the course concludes by reinforcing key gender definitions. While this is a general course, insights on gender equality and gender diversity from this course can be reflected in your workplace as part of your program in building diversity initiatives in the organization.

Scope: Global gender disparity, gender & gender stereotypes, gender equality, and key gender definitions

Hosted on Coursera, the University of Virginia offers the course on Foundations of Diversity and Inclusion at Work. This diversity training program educates your employees on issues surrounding diversity, equity, and inclusivity that are reflected in the workplace, and provides strategies on how to address these challenges. It also includes a more thorough discussion of recognizing different biases in the organization. Leaders can also gain relevant insights on how to lead conversations and lead change and inclusiveness in a diverse workplace. Modules are delivered through self-paced videos and also include supplemental reading materials.

Scope: Understanding diversity, equity, and inclusion in organizations, and best practices in communicating and interacting in a diverse workplace.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Training is a diversity training program available in iHASCO. This course is intended to raise awareness of stereotypes, discrimination, victimization, and unfair treatment within a professional environment. It contains four sections that begin by illustrating a standard workplace to build an ideal goal that any organization can work towards. It then covers issues such as bias, stereotyping, discrimination, harassment, and many more that serve as barriers in building the ideal workplace. After that, it provides guidelines on practical ways to interact with colleagues with respect to diversity. It concludes by reinforcing the value of diversity and the advantages of the ideal workplace.

Lessons are delivered through video learning and your learners are also given access to course transcripts and in-course questionnaires. Successful course completion grants your employees certificates as proof of their compliance.

Scope: The ideal workplace, unacceptable behavior, protected characteristics, and practical improvements

Gender and the Sustainable Development Goals is another course offered by UNITAR hosted on Mitti (by SafetyCulture). This course is mainly focused on addressing the global issue of gender inequality, which can also help better reinforce the value of equality even in the workplace. It includes a snapshot of gender issues which is further explored by examining the relationship of gender with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by UNITAR. Then, it introduces UNITAR’s Twin Track approach which aims to recognize who are left behind and determines ways how they experience marginalization and exclusion. The Twin Track approach is further explored through the Bangladesh Case Study. This course is available for free in Mitti (by SafetyCulture)’s course library that can be easily deployed to your employees.

Scope: Snapshot of gender issues, Twin Track approach, and Bangladesh case study

Also offered in Universal Class, Sensitivity Training in the Workplace is a diversity training program that’s intended to develop cultural competency in organizations. This course aims to provide your employees with knowledge and understanding of concepts on diversity and sensitivity, especially in diverse workplace settings. It contains lessons that help identify various differences among individuals present in any organization. It also equips your learners with the proper approach in dealing with generational diversity and develops an understanding of the LGBTQIA+ community. Its video lessons are only accessible via a web browser. It also includes review articles and exams for each lesson. Upon course completion, a minimum of 70 percent final score is required to earn a certification.

Scope: Introduction to diversity and sensitivity training, recognizing differences in the workplace, understanding gender, generational diversity & LGBT sensitivity training, and resolving conflicts in the workplace

Diversity and Inclusion in retail is another diversity training course offered by Mitti (by SafetyCulture) specifically designed for the retail industry. A diverse and inclusive retail store reflects better service for a wide range of customers. With that, this course reinforces the values of an inclusive, diverse, and equal workplace and elaborates on the different biases of each individual. It then helps your employees develop the kind of service that creates an inclusive shopping experience and diverse workforce for your customers. It also reiterates the importance of a zero-tolerance discrimination policy and guides your employees in listening to customers.

As Mitti (by SafetyCulture) is a mobile-first platform, it makes this course easily accessible for your workforce and its microlearning format enables your learners to have increased information retention and complete lessons in just a couple of minutes!

Scope: Core values of diversity, implicit bias, inclusive shopping experience, discrimination policy, and proper approach to customers