With the constant barrage of news feeds, tweets and blog posts it’s almost impossible to keep discussions regarding charged topics such as politics, religion, race, immigration, gun control and women’s rights from permeating our workplaces. It can be tricky to navigate topics like these at work. But, with some basic ground rules, these discussions can be enlightening—no matter which side of the issue you’re on.

The Addressing Hate and Discrimination Against AAPI Guide is a tool for leading a discussion to address the escalating events of hate and violence against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI).

The Addressing Hate and Discrimination Guide is a tool for leading a discussion to address the escalating events of hate and violence that occur in our community and in the media. The goal of the guide is to help foster an environment where employees can express their feelings and concerns, process their emotions and discuss opportunities and solutions for fostering psychological safety in the workplace and more broadly in the world.

Facilitation is the art of leading people through a process in order to collectively reach agreed-upon objectives in a manner that encourages participation, respect, and creativity by all those involved. These tips can help ensure your conversations are effective and productive.

Conversations that allow employees to share their experiences, their views, their concerns, and their ideas can be an important and effective way to not only build awareness but change hearts.  Even small five-minute conversations can expand our thinking and build comradery among team members.

The Courageous Conversations Facilitator Toolkit is a guide to help you lead difficult conversations in order to deepen understanding across difference. This guide provides tools, tips and materials to help you prepare, host and lead a dialogue based on any topic aimed at understanding difference and resolving conflict. Throughout the year we will provide some facilitator’s discussion guides on specific topics.

Using someone’s correct personal pronouns is as important as remembering and using someone’s correct name. If this seems unusual, unimportant or unreasonable to you, then you are most likely coming at this from a place of privilege. Your assumed pronouns are aligned with how you identify and therefore are not a point of stress or concern – ultimately, they are in fact unimportant to you. But for nonbinary, transgender or gender nonconforming individuals, personal gender pronouns are immensely important and can be an enormous source of anxiety.

Out & Equal’s Pronoun Guide provides strategies for inclusion in the workplace.

MyPronouns.org is a practical resource dedicated to the empowering and inclusive use of personal pronouns in the English language. This website will help you understand why and how to use the pronouns someone goes by. In particular, we are focusing on pronouns used to refer to a singular human in the third person.

Language surrounding identity is constantly evolving. And while using non-binary pronouns might at first be challenging, using someone’s personal gender pronoun is as important as using their correct name. It takes awareness, understanding and practice. Here are some tips for getting it right.

Why is it so important for us to know someone else’s gender? We live in a gendered world, but for Audrey, gender is fluid at best, an uncomfortable construct for most of us. Is there a way to be less reliant on gender in our interactions with people?  Use this Ted Talk and Discussion Guide to host a conversation with your team.

The Addressing Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation is a tool for leading a discussion to address the number of bills / legislation that is / will negatively affect the LGBTQ+ community. The goal is to provide a forum where employees can process their emotions, discuss their feelings and strategize actions and solutions.

This facilitator’s guide can be used to host an in-depth discussion as follow up to the Promoting Psychological Safety Microlearning.

Extensive research demonstrates that most employees cover to some degree at work and that covering
has a negative impact at both the individual and organizational level. By promoting psychological safety,
we can create a workplace where employees are more comfortable bringing their whole selves to work,
are happier, more fulfilled and engaged and are more committed to organizational outcomes.

To create an environment where employees truly feel safe being themselves, expressing themselves and challenging one another requires undoing a lifetime of learned behavior.

Over the course of May through July 2021, VisionSpring conducted over 30 interviews with DEI practitioners to determine what are their biggest roadblocks to achieving their DEI goals.  The market research report includes our key findings, themes, stats & facts and our recommendations.

This Exploring Microaggressions Conversation Starter is designed to deepen our understanding of how our actions and decisions effect colleagues on an individual level and impact overall organizational culture…. This content is for members only.Login Join Now...

Developing a new ERG may seem like a daunting task, but once a plan of action, with specific tasks, expectations and timelines is created, the process will be more manageable. This document provides a step-by step guided process for launching an ERG

A more equal world starts with you. Citing a formative moment from her own life, equity advocate Nita Mosby Tyler highlights why showing up and fighting for others who face injustices beyond your own lived experience leads to a fairer, more just future for all.

In this powerful talk, psychologist Jennifer L. Eberhardt explores how our biases unfairly target Black people at all levels of society — from schools and social media to policing and criminal justice — and discusses how creating points of friction can help us actively interrupt and address this troubling problem. 

The presence and visibility of a movement can often lead us to believe that progress is inevitable. But building power and changing the system requires more than conversations and retweets, says Rashad Robinson, the president of Color Of Change. To create material change in the racist systems that enable and perpetuate violence against Black communities, Robinson shares how we can translate the energy of global protests into specific demands, actions, and laws — and hold those in power accountable to them.

Baratunde Thurston explores the phenomenon of white Americans calling the police on black Americans who have committed the crimes of … eating, walking, or generally “living while black.” In this profound, thought-provoking, and often hilarious talk, he reveals the power of language to change stories of trauma into stories of healing — while challenging us all to level up.

Quick tips and how-tos to help you navigate diversity challenges and opportunities

Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate. It is important to note that privilege is not necessarily a bad thing – just unfair. Privilege used positively can actually be leveraged to support the advancement of others and to benefit the organization as a whole.

If you are in a situation where you have privilege, you have an opportunity to leverage that privilege to help and support others. Leveraging our privilege is a great way to serve as an ally. Allies can help amplify the message, break down barriers and secure support of the masses. Here are some things you can do to leverage your privilege as an ally.

The article revisits the question are diversity and inclusion efforts unfair to white men from the perspective of equity.

Support Material to be assigned as prework for The Crafting My Career Development Plan Circle Meeting

One of the most effective ways to develop yourself and move your career forward is to create a well-thought-out plan. Here are some tips and strategies to help you take control of your own career journey and successfully identify and pursue a career joy and fulfillment.

Ideas for developing skills and experience to propel you forward and help you achieve your career goals.