What are we doing?

The foundation has been working hard with industry, industry bodies and diversity initiatives during the months since we launched in October 2008.

In Summary - we have begun our series of discussion forums, engaged 25 Mentors to nurture minority talent and presented the issue to many industry and educational audiences. We are working hard with Oxford Brookes University on a Research Project that we hope to launch in late 2009.

Discussion Forum Series to Promote Education and Awareness
The whole industry needs to TALK about this topic and understand the benefits to the workforce and business of focusing in this area.

One and All is running Discussion Forums on a monthly basis in 2009 to educate all levels of industry and encourage people to examine the issue and relate the campaign and it’s actions to their own working lives.

Find out more about the discussion forums here.

Conduct Research
One and All is working with Oxford Brookes University to secure funding for a major Research Project for late 2009.

We need to know more about the barriers faced and the ways in which we can remove them. It is also important to understand the current make up of the industry and the roles and levels in which diverse individuals currently succeed.

Reverse Mentoring Programme
One and All is facilitating a reverse mentoring programme for the industry.
A 2 sided mentoring scheme in which both sides learn from each other - the individual receives mentoring and support and the mentor learns more about the challenges faced by people from minority groups through one to one contact.
We have received a strong response from Mentors happy to volunteer their time and are now looking for candidates from minority groups to take part.

Find out more about the reverse mentoring programme here.

Find and Share Best Practice and Role Models
One and All will make sure that everyone can learn from previous experience and remove the need for each company to spend valuable time and resources making the same mistakes by discovering and sharing ideas and good practice.

We will find simple, relevant ways that you can imbed good practice into your existing businesses, without creating complex additional processes and provide practical, useful information on how to improve business practices to maximise involvement and retention of diverse groups.

In order to encourage and retain different people we will identify and promote role models from various backgrounds, at various levels within industry to inspire others and share their stories. If you have someone in mind that we should speak to please get in touch.

Monitor Workforce Diversity
By encouraging businesses to monitor the make up of the workforce, we can see where we need to go and how we need to get there. The more we know about the employees in our businesses the more easily we can create and maintain an environment in which they can all thrive.

We will share ways in which this information can be captured and monitored to add value to your talent management and your workforce.