Diversity misconceptions are not necessarily born out of malice or prejudice but rather ignorance or misinformation. This article offers ten powerful questions for addressing someone’s diversity misconceptions.
Source: Diversity Officer Magazine
Successfully creating a diverse organization requires census-building, collaborative effort,and financial and time commitment. ExecSearches looks at midterm strategies that successful companies have used to achieve their goals.
Source: ExecSearches
Are diversity awards a help or a hindrance to true diversity and inclusion success?
Redesigning your role after maternity leave can lead to career acceleration but it means setting clear goals, forensically analyzing how you spend your time, consciously not doing things that aren’t core to meeting your goals, over-communicating, and then course-correcting when required.
Sorting out hybrid work arrangements will require managers to rethink and expand one of strongest proven predictors of team effectiveness: psychological safety. When it comes to psychological safety, managers have traditionally focused on enabling candor and dissent with respect to work content. The problem is, as the boundary between work and life becomes increasingly blurry, managers must make staffing, scheduling, and coordination decisions that take into account employees’ personal circumstances — a categorically different domain.
Social justice issues are now more pervasive than ever before in the workplace. Today’s leaders should aim to tackle social justice issues in a way that moves their culture forward while helping retain key talent. Here are five things that leaders can do today.
Privilege and Allyship Virtual Classroom
Privilege and Allyship
Training
Virtual Classrooms
Allies & Champions
Privilege
This 2 hour virtual training is designed to help employees at all levels recognize their individual positions of privilege and how they can leverage that privilege on behalf of others and in efforts aimed at creating more fair and equitable workplaces.
Elizabeth Lesser: Take “the Other” to Lunch
Interactive Exercise
Ted Talks
Allies & Champions
Awareness/Foundation Building
Elizabeth Lesser suggests a new strategy for bridging the gap between individuals and groups. Having lunch with those you may disagree with opens the door for productive conversation and growth. Understanding leads to a lack of contempt that breeds change and action.
Creating a Culture of Belonging Training
In Person Training
Training
Belonging
Organizational Culture
Psychological Safety
Our Creating a Culture of Belonging Workshop explores the importance of Belonging and its connection to Diversity & Inclusion and presents a series of strategies and actions for creating a CoB.
Respect in the Workplace Training
In Person Training
Respect in the Workplace
Training
Respect in the Workplace
Respect in the Workplace is a two-hour training that is designed to help employees recognize and address inappropriate behavior in the workplace.
Recognizing and Managing Bias Training
In Person Training
Recognizing and Managing Bias Training
Training
Unconscious Bias
The Recognizing and Managing Unconscious Bias training focuses on raising awareness of unconscious bias and the steps individuals can take to prevent biased attitudes and behaviors from interfering with workplace decisions and interactions.
The Inclusive Leadership Training has been updated with new content and new interactive activities better aligned with today;s DEI challenges and opportunities. This is a full-day training but is designed so you can easily customize and pull content to adjust the length of the training
The Connecting Diversity to Middle Manager Priorities Training is designed as a half-day workshop to help middle managers make connections between diversity and inclusion and achieve overall business goals as well as individual goals.
Overcoming Bias Training
In Person Training
Overcoming Bias Training Toolkit
Training
Unconscious Bias
The Overrcoming Biastraining is designed as a 2-hour workshop to help individuals recognize situations where bias may have impacted their career progress. Additionally, the conversations and exercises built into the agenda will help participants mitigate and deal with bias in a productive way. As a subset, the tool will also help participants recognize and manage bias within themselves.
D&I: Making it Count for Sales Training
D&I: Making it Count for Sales
In Person Training
Training
Business Case/DEI ROI
The Making it Count for Sales: The What, Why, and How of Diversity & Inclusion is a 75-90 minute training designed to help sales teams recognize and understand how they can best support the diversity and inclusion strategy.
D&I: Making it Count for People Managers Training
D&I: Making it Count for People Managers
In Person Training
Training
Middle Manager Engagement
The Making it Count for People Managers: The What, Why, and How of Diversity & Inclusion is a 75-90 minute training designed to help people managers recognize and understand how they can best support the diversity and inclusion strategy
The Making it Count for HR: The What, Why, and How of Diversity & Inclusion is a two-hour training designed to help Human Resources recognize and understand how they can best support the diversity and inclusion strategy.
D&I: Making it Count for ERG Leaders Training
D&I: Making it Count for ERG Leaders
In Person Training
Training
Employee Resource Groups
Leadership
The Making it Count for ERG Leaders is a two-hour training designed to help ERG leaders recognize and understand how they are uniquely positioned to support the diversity and inclusion strategy.
The Bystander Conundrum: How to be an Ally Training
In Person Training
The Bystander Conundrum: How to be an Ally
Training
Allies & Champions
The Bystander Conundrum: How to Be an Effective Ally is a two-hour training designed to help employees across the organization recognize and understand how they can further diversity and inclusion as an ally.
This 2-hour virtual classroom is designed to deepen awareness and understanding and to help individuals recognize and manage bias within themselves and others.
Respect in the Workplace Virtual Classroom
Respect in the Workplace Virtual Classroom is a 90-minute training that will help participants more fully understand the dynamics and characteristics of a respectful workplace and the steps each of us can take to ensure all individuals are treated with dignity and respect.
Diversity, Inclusion & Identity Virtual Classroom
Diversity, Inclusion, and Identity: Building Awareness and Understanding
Training
Virtual Classrooms
Inclusion & Identity: Building Awareness and Understanding Virtual Classroom is a 90-minute experience that will help participants more fully understand concepts associated with diversity and inclusion and explore the intersectionality of identity, privilege, and equity.
Creating a Culture of Belonging Virtual Classroom
Creating a Culture of Belonging
Training
Virtual Classrooms
This 2-hour virtual classroom introduces participants to the concept of belonging and explores not only the importance of belonging but shares specific steps everyone can take to create belonging in your own organizations.
Understanding Equity & Why it Matters Microlearning
Microlearning
Training
Understanding Equity and Why it Matters
Equity
This 5-minute microlearning explores the difference between equity and equality and why we need to address equity in our workplaces to achieve inclusion. Consider using the below facilitator guide to host a dialogue session after watching the video.
Respect in the Workplace
Respect in the Workplace is a two-hour training designed to help employees recognize and address inappropriate behavior in the workplace.
This short microlearning helps learners understand what psychological safety means, why it matters and how to promote it in the workplace. Consider using the below facilitator guide to host a dialogue session after watching the video.
This short, interactive microlearning explores micromessages, the impact they can have in our workplaces and what we as individuals can do to mitigate the impact of micro-inequities and contribute to a culture of inclusion with micro-affirmations.
This 5-minute microlearning explores gender and why pronouns matter. Consider using the below facilitator guide to host a dialogue session after watching the video.
The Career Development Toolkit provides a series of tools and resources to help you explore and manage your career including self-exploration and awareness building, career exploration and goal setting, and planning your next career move
The Event Planning toolkit includes everything you need to plan, execute, and evaluate any event from an hour-long lunch and learn to a 3-day conference.