The Staff College is committed to the development and embedding of equity, equality, diversity and inclusion principles into practice, by facilitating a greater understanding around inclusive leadership and cultural competence.
Our programmes are co-created and built around a shared sense of moral purpose, social value and compelling supporting narrative drawing from lived and living experience, underpinned by robust governance and accountability.
Our BALI: Unlocking Hidden Talent programme is one of our longest standing programmes, established in 2012 to explore the obstacles and barriers global majority leaders face within the public sector. It provides a psychologically safe space to acknowledge challenges and explores ways to support growth, knowledge, and strategies to overcome challenges.
We recognise that Global Majority Leaders and practitioners are not a homogenous group and the practice of Cultural Competence is integral to the programme’s approach, where all cultures are recognised and the additionality of individual cultural paradigms are welcomed. BALI: Unlocking Hidden Talent is delivered as a Global Majority safe space for participants which gives all participants the confidence to be themselves and have candid discussions without feeling a need to moderate their views for the comfort of others.
This is a 4 day programme with day 1 & 2 running concurrently and day 3 & 4 approx. 2/3 months later to allow reflection and learning to be applied into practice.
*Global Majority – refers to people who are Black, Asian, Arab, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south. We recognise people will identify with a plethora of terms, we at TSC use Global Majority due to its all-inclusive and powerful statement of who we are collectively. We therefore see the term Global Majority as an antidote to potentially negative and disempowering terminology normally associated with minoritised groups.
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The programme aims include:
- Provide strategies to help participants overcome barriers and enhance skills to be able to thrive as a Global Majority leader.
- Provide a safe environment to consider how personal and professional experiences of covert, overt and institutional racism have and do impact.
- Enable participants to learn about and try out for themselves different leadership approaches and understand how these relate to their own values and principles.
- Ensure participants develop their own personal learning plan in order to help them progress in their careers.
- Provide the opportunity to develop a trusted and active network of global majority colleagues.
In addition to the national BALI programme we offer bespoke programmes on an organisational, sector, or geographical footprint.
BALI Ambassadors on their experiences of inspiration, growth and transformation
A survey we carried out at our BALI alumni event in June 2023 (77 responses) found that:
97% indicated that BALI was ‘extremely important’ or ‘very important’ in aiding their progression.
47% of alumni who participated in the survey have been promoted since attending the programme.
100% of survey respondents stated they would recommend the program to colleagues.
I thoroughly enjoyed this development opportunity and have never experienced this level of oneness, whilst being challenged and self accountable. The facilitators were exceptional, experienced and absolutely amazing.
The BALI programme was such a thought-provoking experience and training that I would say is unique to any other I have been on in my 15 years of social worker.