Helping businesses build an inclusive culture

Parks’ underlying mission is to help businesses build a culture of inclusion and respect and follows an underlying notion that capitalizing on differences and encouraging inclusion in the workplace represents an enormous opportunity and a competitive business advantage.

By signing up with Parks businesses can count on a series of tailor made activities conceived to guarantee an inclusive and respectful working environment.

Parks offers education and training, external and internal communication, advice on pay policy and benefits that measure up to the needs of the LGBT workforce.

Our main areas of action are the following:

  • Organizational consultancy
  • Training
  • Internal surveys
  • Organization of events
  • Knowledge sharing
  • Dedicated areas

The projects are tailor made by a team of experts and conceived for the employees of the contracting businesses.

Parks’ activity aims to promulgate new seeds of knowledge helping to grow the good sides of Diversity Management thus contributing to the preparation of a progressive entrepreneurial world able and willing to embrace diversity in a positive manner.

Parks Activity

Training:

Parks organizes courses in diversity training (General diversity and LGBT diversity) whose aims are to generate awareness and increase knowledge of the types of diversity to be found in the workplace.

These training courses – aimed at all employees and each level of management – aim to deepen their knowledge helping them to understand how different perspectives can help to improve the organization’s performance while highlighting the necessary qualities enabling them to work efficiently in the workplace.

Organizational consultancy:

Parks advises business partners in the analysis and conception of benefit programs that take into account the diverse cultures present within companies.

It helps these companies to create a working environment that limits those risks accruing from a growing trend of anti-discriminatory legislation on a national and EU level.

It helps in the preparation of communication strategies, aimed both internally and towards markets, that highlight the benefits of an inclusive and respectful business model for all employees.

Surveys and research:

Parks creates surveys and promotes tailor made research aimed at analyzing the on-going perception that both the company and its employees have towards the subject matter of both General diversity and LGBT diversity.

This information gathering and the presentation of results is aimed at photographing the contest to help companies implement policies of inclusion in the workplace.

ParksLab:

Parks organizes from time to time activities that aim to share knowledge and to promote good practices.

In this context ParkLabs is particularly important, consisting in a series of focus meetings relating to LGBT questions and conceived to promote good practices in business culture and organization.

The main goal is to provide tools for facing up to and overcoming obstacles to the implementation of truly inclusive policies.

Organization of events:

Parks helps its business partners in the conception and communication of both external and internal events in the realm of General and LGBT diversity, promoting projects and sponsorships, hosting communication, providing informed speakers and moderating meetings.

These initiatives help promote a sense of belonging among employees and allow businesses to display a positive social model, useful in engaging both consumers and future employees.

Network:

Those companies that sign up to Parks can enter a reserved area where it’s possible to download documents, share experiences and stay constantly up to date regarding the Association’s activities and those of other business partners.

This dedicated area was conceived as a space for sharing knowledge and as a cooperative community where businesses are encouraged to create a debating forum around commonly held principles.

Activities for non members

As a way of networking with businesses that are not presently able to attain member status, some activities can be accessed from outside the Association. It is therefore possible to receive advice on how to set up a LGBT diversity scheme or how to set up single activities.

If you require further information please contact us.