The Rising Approach To: Caring Work Cultures
Rising Arts Agency have officially launched a new training programme targeted at individual practitioners, HR professionals, managers, CEOs and trustees around nurturing caring work cultures.
How do you truly live your values as an inclusive and caring employer? How do you create a culture that embodies care and enables everyone to bring themselves to work? What can other industries learn from the cultural and creative sector about care?
We have officially launched a new training programme targeted at individual practitioners, HR professionals, managers, CEOs and trustees around nurturing caring work cultures.
Since we began, Rising Arts Agency, has been championing new ways of building inclusive work cultures. In 2019, we were nominated for the National Diversity Awards for our work as a diverse youth-led organisation and became accredited as a real living wage employer, highlighting the importance of making your values visible to push change in the sector.
“We always have been a real living wage employer, but we wanted to join the national conversation about paying people fairly and be an example to the sector. I’m happy to publicly declare this position for Rising and to put us in the context of other businesses doing great work!”
– Jess Bunyan, Rising’s Co-Director.
Through our consultancy, commissions and training, we have provided sector-support and organisational development expertise to those looking to employ more inclusive practices. Particularly as younger generations demand more caring and inclusive workplaces following the Covid-19 pandemic.
In October 2023, Rising was named as one of four founding members of the West of England’s Good Employment Charter which seeks to promote fair and innovative workplace practices across the region. Rising’s unique approaches to building inclusive work cultures such as their progressive New Parents Policy, accessible recruitment processes and their ‘August of Rest’ – where the agency closes for a month and team members are paid to rest and reflect on their work have garnered national attention.
This new training programme is the first in a series of training that brings together key aspects of our work in a curated package that supports others to interrogate their own cultures and use tools to implement new approaches. It is a 4-week course starting in November 2024, built with accessibility in mind from its content to its design. Organisations can enrol with a sliding scale cost depending on the size, income and mission of the organisation.
What you’ll learn
- Learn practical tools for implementing a caring work culture (including policy tool-kit) that you can use in your own context!
- Learn about methods for truly inclusive recruitment – and how to retain good employees
- Get a shared, living workbook with resources, further reading and recaps of all the sessions to revisit again and again!
Caring Work Cultures – Nov 2024
SESSION 1: 4/11 11:00-13:30
SESSION 2: 11/11 11:00 – 13:30
SESSION 3: 18/11 11:00 -13:30
SESSION 4: 25/11. 11:00 – 13:30
During this 4-week training we’ll explore how to embed care in every phase of the employee journey – from access and recruitment to generative conflict and policies made for people.
