Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Training using Virtual Reality
The Future of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Training (DEI) is through Immersive Learning and education. Traditional e-learning has been on the decline in performance and does not provide for full engagement, proving to be ineffective at building empathy and changing employee perspectives. Yet despite the positive intentions, most of these “traditional programs are failing” according to the Harvard Business Review. Workplace discrimination, which is related to unconscious bias, costs businesses an estimated $64 Billion annually according to a recent report from Center for American Progress.
By using Virtual Reality training, you can put your trainees in a “walk a mile in someone else’s shoes” scenario to better understand what it feels like to experience discrimination first hand. They can switch perspectives from one viewpoint to another to see how each side views interactions whereby creating their own perceptions.
In-Person or Virtual Training in the Following Areas:
Leadership Racial Bias Gender Diversity Disability Inclusion
Cultural Inclusion LGBTQ+ Bystander Intervention Belonging
Exclusion Unconscious Bias Sexual Harassment Bullying
Soft Skills Equity & Equality
Our Simulation Based Training:
We utilize Virtual Reality training onsite or virtual when working with many Company Departments including Human Resources for internal training within the aforementioned areas. This training allows you to see from the point-of-view of others, including those of a different gender, race, or ability-level. An Effective way to change people’s behavior and increase team building performance on the job.
Our Virtual reality training platform immerses learners in cause-and-effect training scenarios for a high-impact learning experience. Learners will engage in a 2D or 3D virtual reality environment with customized avatars, environments, and scenarios specifically designed to simulate real-life challenges.
VR training is an ideal, interactive training solution for improving leadership & employee development, educator skill mastery, healthcare or clinic interactions, defense leadership training, human services, and social services. In the financial area we’ve had the pleasure of working with some great clients including Price Waterhouse Cooper and JP Morgan where we provide training onsite for their global teams at annual summits.
Training that will make a Real Impression within your Company:
Virtual reality technology can improve empathy among users, unlike a video in which the participant is only an observer, VR puts participants right in the action, interacting with others like in real life.
Our Inclusion Experience begins by immersing your employees and management in a short VR scenarios in which they experience many common issues including:
- Gender, Race, Age & Ability Level Bias
- Cultural Bias
- Exclusion from social and work-related activities.
- Conflicting advice on how to improve.
After the VR experience, your employees will be ready to have a powerful conversation about how they feel about the experience. Our facilitator can help guide an open and honest discussion about:
- The business impact of exclusion at the workplace
- How their own experience relates to the workplace environment.
- Unconscious biases that can lead to exclusion.
- Increasing empathy
- What employees and management can do to create a more inclusive workplace.
Most importantly, your leaders will leave the session with stronger emotional understanding of inclusion and clear actions to model inclusive behaviors, including inviting their colleagues and team members into conversations to contribute ideas and perspectives.
For more information on how Reality X Media can help your organization grow in diversity & inclusion education, please contact us to learn more about training programs tailored to your individual needs.