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Experiential Workshop
Gaining insight and perspective of what the recruitment process and workplace feels like for people
from completely different backgrounds to our own is no easy task. But not having this perspective
can lead to policies, practices and cultures that will be inadvertently excluding individuals from your
organisation.
The purpose of our Experiential Workshop is to provide a deep understanding of some of the
challenges and barriers that our young people, and others from underrepresented communities,
face when navigating corporate careers. Over the course of the Workshop, we use insights from
Brokerage Candidates past and present so that we can explore a young person's journey from
recruitment, to onboarding, to progression and the impact organisational culture has. Just as
important, we will help participants to better identify the skills and qualities that our young people
have developed through their ‘lived experience’ as well as their academic excellence in order to
enable more inclusive recruitment of socially mobile young people.
The workshop is not a lecture! It is an interactive ‘safe space’ where participants are made to feel
confident to express their thoughts and share ideas as your employees take part in activities that
will give them a deeper personal understanding of what it is like for our young people. We also
explore what actions individuals can take to remove these barriers in working practices.
The Experiential Workshops delivered by The Brokerage worked really well at getting our
prospective internship managers thinking about some of the issues – lots of good internal
feedback.
Paul Lucas, Chief Actuary International, Argo Global
This session is really good and pitched and facilitated very well by The Brokerage. I would really
recommend for any colleague working with young people, whether that be as a line-manager,
buddy or team leader.
Lynne Farrage, Partner - Colleague Experience, McGill and Partners
Key details
Commitment: We recommend 90 minutes for this
session for up to 10 employees
Price:
Format:
Facilitated in-person interactive
workshop
£1,000
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