Culture+ is an online platform that provides practical tools and support on key equality, diversity, and inclusion issues facing startups, scaleups, and SMEs. Culture+ is unique in its approach to embedding a culture of inclusion by providing teams with individual training modules, opportunities for peer learning, and ways to track and measure progress in diversity and inclusion.
Benefits for businesses
- Greater investment potential: inclusive organisations are more innovative with better prospects to attract and retain great talent, grow fast and become profitable
- Saves time: maximise time efficiency with ready-made 'EDI Roadmaps' that chart resource allocation across your organisation's growth phases
- Recruitment support: gives you the tools and insights to recruit and retain diverse and talented teams
- Enhanced understanding of organisational culture: Culture+ is data driven, allowing you to measure and track individual and organisational progress on culture and inclusion in real-time
- Increased knowledge and skills: upskills entire organisation on inclusive behaviours through training cells
- Subsidised access: the first year on the platform is subsidised by the Royal Academy of Engineering to all company employees of Enterprise Hub Members and awardees.
Your pathway to an inclusive team
When your company chooses Culture+, each team member will begin by rating their own inclusive behaviours. Then an anonymous feedback report from your team will indicate where to focus your efforts and provide learning content to develop these skills.
Choose two 'cells' or learning modules for inclusive behaviours.
Rate yourself against each of the four essential habits in a cell
Choose colleagues to review you and receive an anonymised feedback report
Begin the learning content, which includes articles, infographics or podcasts, for each cell
About Culture+
Created in partnership with The Honeycomb Works, Culture+ ('Culture Plus') is a one-stop shop that takes a holistic approach to equality, diversity, and inclusion. The platform hosts a library of articles, templates, and action lists that are specifically designed to meet the needs of small and growing businesses in engineering. With individual 'EDI Roadmaps,' devised to provide the right resources and advice when you need it, Culture+ provides long-term support to businesses as they grow.
Culture+ also provides individual training through dedicated learning cells, which incorporate a 360 feedback approach. Each cell highlights specific, observable, and repeatable behaviours in everyday interactions that will embed an inclusive culture across an organisation.
The Royal Academy of Engineering subsidises the first year on the platform to all company employees for Enterprise Hub Members and awardees.
Want to try out Culture+ in-person? Come see us
On 30 to 31 October 2024, the Academy will be participating as an industry partner at Advanced Engineering, the UK’s premier engineering and manufacturing event at the NEC, Birmingham. Attendees are welcome to drop by the Academy's exhibitor stand to demo the Culture+ platform, ask questions, and sign their organisations up. We will also be hosting a panel discussion on inclusive cultures in startups and scaleups. Register for your free pass to Advanced Engineering 2024 now.
Advanced Engineering is a great way to discover thousands of cutting-edge technologies, 180+ speakers, and 400+ suppliers covering the engineering and manufacturing supply chain. Visitors regularly include representatives from Airbus, Rolls-Royce, McLaren, BAE Systems, Department for International Trade, and many more. It is a great opportunity to network, connect and stay ahead in a constantly evolving industry.
Culture+ brochure
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Background
In 2019, the Royal Academy of Engineering embarked on a research project looking into the diversity and inclusion needs and resources available to small and medium sized engineering organisations in the UK. The suggested SMEs and micros (start-ups and scale-ups) have very different needs and a different level of understanding of diversity and inclusion when compared to larger companies. They often lack resource, have significant competing priorities and struggle to understand how to make diversity and inclusion the focus of their work. Despite accounting for 99% of all private sector businesses our analysis suggests that SMEs and micros are underserved when it comes to diversity and inclusion support, meaning that a huge proportion of workers and companies are not realising the benefits that greater diversity can bring.
As part of the Royal Academy of Engineering’s commitment to support organisations embed more diverse and inclusive cultures, we have partnered with The Honeycomb Works to produce a robust EDI Platform, Culture+, to be used by start-ups, scale-ups (micros), and SMEs in engineering.
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