APPRECIATING DIFFERENCES IN THE WORKPLACE
Unleash the true potential of your workforce by creating an environment in which diverse perspectives, contributions, and talents can flourish.
Diversity & Inclusion Experience
Actively tackling bias in the workplace helps build better organizations…and better people.
If you want to unleash the true potential of your workforce, it’s important to create an environment in which diverse perspectives, contributions, and talents can flourish – where everyone feels valued and visible. The first step in creating such a culture is surfacing and dismantling unconscious belief structures that skew decision-making and cloud objectivity. Mitigating bias is not a one-and-done event; it is a journey.
Building Trust
A Blanchard Program
The level of trust employees have with colleagues or a leader determines how well they work together, listen to one another, and rely on each other to get things done. The Building Trust Model teaches people how to build trust and, if it’s been broken, how to repair it. The model is simple to learn and remember. Most importantly it is easy to apply on the job. Building Trust focuses on helping individuals build or repair trust, using a simple yet powerful trust model and framework.
AUDIENCE:
Senior Executives, VP’s, Directors, Managers, Individual Contributors
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Learn The Building Trust framework
- Develop an action plan to engage in more trust-building behaviors
- Learn a three-step process for rebuilding trust
- Plan and practice two trust-building conversations
“Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.”
– Malcom Forbes
Trusting Differences
Being different and engaging with others who are different from us can be critical to our own growth personally, and professionally. It can sometimes be a challenge to trust what might be different from us, whether that be a different opinion, perspective, thought, or behavior.
Our past experiences, background, and core values help to make up who we are. In this session you will learn three lessons in trusting differences to gain insight on why it’s important, what you can do about it and how to do it. Participants will also get to explore their own personal why. Why do you want to do something different? Why is it important to you? What will your next step be after your learning experience?
AUDIENCE:
Senior Executives, VP’s, Directors, Managers, Individual Contributors
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Recall how to seek first to understand
- Demonstrate curiosity to learn and understand about others’ differences
- Distinguish between tolerance, acceptance, and understanding
- Define your “why” behind the importance of uncovering common ground for greater understanding of differences
The Evolution of Inclusive Thinking
How can you as a leader respect and promote the uniqueness of each member of your team? How can you recognize and manage through your own biases to improve your team’s diversity, equity, and inclusion?
To understand bias, we must first understand our own thinking. This interactive session gives participants an opportunity to gain insight on the importance of thinking differently and how to practice “new thinking” behaviors.
AUDIENCE:
Senior Executives, VP’s, Directors, Managers, Individual Contributors
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Retrieve historical information about diversity, to gain a better understanding about the true meaning of diversity
- Evaluate examples of valuing, respecting, and engaging with people and their differences
- Articulate the necessary action steps to take to heighten the awareness of unconscious bias
- Identify, individually, what behavior changes to make to practice being inclusive and think more consistently about inclusion
Tackling Bias
In Partnership with The Corporate Education Group
This highly interactive workshop is paced and structured to help you recognize bias and interrupt it. Because unbiasing is about accountability instead of blame, participants are invited to move through this learning experience with curiosity and compassion. They will explore the impact of bias and stereotyping through a variety of activities, including large group and team exercises, individual reflection, videos, scenario practice, and role-play.
Participants will also learn and practice inclusive behaviors, discovering how they can co-create a culture where diversity and inclusion are unleashed to foster greater innovation, solutions, and belonging.
AUDIENCE:
Senior Executives, VP’s, Directors, Managers, Individual Contributors
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Describe the connection between the brain’s hard-wiring and cognitive biases
- Discover specific unconscious biases that exist for them personally
- Articulate the longitudinal impact of bias on members of non-dominant groups
- Identify concrete actions they can take to counteract biases and stereotypes
- Leverage key vital behaviors that reflect inclusivity
