Workshops: For Leaders
Self-Paced
How can Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion make a difference in your small business? This eCourse provides definitions of diversity, equity and inclusion, and then we look at stats on how implementing DEI can enhance a business’ organizational performance, from decision making to customer relations and sales.
Becoming an inclusive leader, as well as a good manager, can make a difference to your employees, customers, and your bottom line. Learn more about what inclusive leadership encompasses.
Virtual or In Person
We can deliver the following workshops at your organization. We can customize them to suit your specific needs.
| Diversity: Good or Bad for Organizations? (1 hr.) | Diversity seems to be all the rage these days. Organizations today are faced with ever-evolving, ever more demanding, and diverse customers. How can your organization keep up with and even gain a competitive advantage over your competition for those customers? Studies from leading research firms such as the Harvard Business Review, Kforce, Boston Consulting Group, McKenzie, and Clear Company as well as notable figures such as Dianne Crampton of the United Nations recognized TIGERS series to former Soviet Leader Mikael Gorbachov to Producer-Director Norman Lear point to one real answer to this question – diversity in your employees.But is diversity really the solution for your organization? What are the benefits? How can you tell if your organization could benefit from diversity efforts? Come participate in an interactive session where you will discover the answers to this and other questions about whether diversity & inclusion is worth pursuing in your organization. Learning Objectives
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| Achieving Organizational Performance Through DEI | Senior Management has decided they want to pursue diversity for the good the organization and its customers/clients. You have been tasked with leading or playing a major role in carrying out this decision. But how do you do this? Whether you are Senior management or middle-management – in HR or Business Unit/Department Leadership, this session will help you understand how to strategically set your organization up for a successful diversity, equity, & inclusion push using our innovative DEI Roadmap that will improve overall organizational performance. Learning Objectives
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| Measuring DEI: Beyond Simple Counts to Impactful Engagement & ROI (1.5 hr.) | You have made the decision to embark on a Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) initiative. Good. Now how do you know whether or not your effort is successful? Management guru Peter Drucker has been credited with saying that “if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.” That applies to DEI. If you can’t measure DEI in your organization, you can’t improve it.
Join us for a discussion of how to measure a DEI initiative that is based on the groundbreaking work of Dr. Edward Hubbard and Curt J. Howes. We will discuss the 3 types of DEI goals, the 20 DEI goal areas, how DEI goals should be aligned to overall organizational goals, and methods for tracking your chosen goals that include Return on Investment (ROI). Learning Objectives
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| DEI for Managers | Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) is a proven way to elicit superior performance from teams and individuals. But that performance does not just happen by itself. Even if there is a DEI Plan, that plan needs to be carried out day-to-day. So, how do you bring diversity into your group? How do you engage everyone equitably so that they perform at their best and your team performs at its highest level? This workshop explores how to embed DEI into your daily work as a manager. Learning Objectives By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
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| Recognizing Discrimination: Unconscious Implicit Bias, Microaggressions, and Unwelcoming Workplaces | Are you aware that 100% of people are biased but most do not know it? Would you recognize a microaggression when you see it? Do you understand the impact of microaggressions on your organization? Do you understand whether your workplace environment is welcoming to diverse people? If you answered NO to any of these questions or just want to brush up on the topics, this session is for you? Come participate in an interactive session that takes you through how our biases lead to microaggressions, organizational policies, and culture that is, at best, unwelcoming and at worse, illegal. Learning Objectives:
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| Inclusive Leadership Workshop | DEI is a proven way to elicit superior performance from teams and individuals. But that performance does not just happen by itself. Even if there is a DEI Plan, that plan needs to be carried out day-to-day by the people in your group. How do you engage everyone equitably so that they perform at their best and your team performs at its highest level? This workshop explores how to ignite your staff to optimal performance using our formula of equitable inclusion of diverse people. Learning Objectives By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
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A Board’s Role in Igniting Performance Through Diversity, | The Council of Nonprofits defines a Board’s responsibility being “to steer the organization towards a sustainable future by adopting sound, ethical, and legal governance and financial management policies, as well as by making sure the nonprofit has adequate resources to advance its mission.” Research from McKinsey, PWC, and others show that organizations that have diversity in their leadership are more likely to outperform their peers. Yet, it is more than just diversity of people that makes an organization perform at its best. This session will explore how Boards can ignite the performance of their organizations by embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion for themselves and their organizations. Learning Objectives By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
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