Description | By the end of this session you will be able to:
- link your DEI initiative to organizational performance
- create a roadmap for your DEI initiative
- set the proper expectations for a DEI initiative
- create welcoming, inclusive spaces and a higher-performing organization.
| By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- create a culture for your group to live into DEI
- include DEI in the recruitment, hiring, and retention
- encourage DEI in your team’s communication, decision-making, and general project management.
| | At the end of this session you will:
- Understand the roles in situations
- Understand what discourages us from acting when we see harm doing
- Understand how to move through this resistance to action
| Hackathon you will gain ideas on how to:
- Describe the importance of diversity and inclusion and how it is not just the ‘right’ thing to do but critical for business success.
- Change mindsets to build inclusivity into the way people think.
- Encourage ownership and participation across the company on this important topic.
- Build awareness for different people’s experiences and understanding of the team dynamics or systems that can hinder a sense of belonging or create exclusion.
- Get a global view of how people in different organizations feel and what challenges are faced.
- Generate ideas for driving positive change and drive inclusive action.
- Open up conversations and encourage the development of relationships
- Encourage diversity of thought and new ideas
- Develop skills around empathy, relationship building & problem-solving.
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November 18, 2021 @ 11:00 am EST
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 set yourself up for a successful diversity, equity, & inclusion push. It will review what we call the 5 magic D&I Implementation Guideposts.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this session you will be able to:
- link your DEI initiative to organizational performance
- create a roadmap for your DEI initiative
- set the proper expectations for a DEI initiative
- create welcoming, inclusive spaces and a higher-performing organization.
Facilitator: James McKim, PMP, ITIL, Managing Partner, Organizational Ignition
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March 10 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
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:
- create a culture for your group to live into DEI
- include DEI in the recruitment, hiring, and retention
- encourage DEI in your team’s communication, decision-making, and general project management.
Facilitator: James McKim, PMP, ITIL, Managing Partner, Organizational Ignition, LLC
| DEI Foundations/Key Concepts – October 6, 2022 11:30 AM – 1 PM
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:
By the end of this session participants will be able to:
- understand what unconscious implicit bias is and how it impacts performance
- interpret types of microaggressions and their impact to your organization
- begin to analyze the “welcomness” of your workplace for diverse employees.
Facilitator: James McKim, PMP, ITIL, Managing Partner, Organizational Ignition, LLC
| March 24 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT
You are minding your own business in a store or on a bus. You see someone bullying a person who looks as if he/she is not capable of handling the situation. What do you do? In a time when people are quick to express anger and more likely to be angry at people “not like them”, many of us are seeking tools to respond effectively to such biased anger.
This highly interactive training will give you tools and insights to use in such situations and a chance to think about how you might use them. We present information, share experiences, and strategize bystander responses to a variety of situations.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this session you will:
- Understand the roles in situations
- Understand what discourages us from acting when we see harm doing
- Understand how to move through this resistance to action
Facilitators: James McKim, PMP, ITIL, Managing Partner, Organizational Ignition, LLC
Aron DiBacco, New Communities Organizer, Granite State Organizing Project
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April 7 @ 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT
Come hack into topics that have been impacting our workplaces! The purpose of this event is to bring those who have a passion and commitment for diversity, equity, and inclusion together and discuss and hack into difficult topics in a respectful and safe setting. The DEI Hackathon is a perfect opportunity for those working on DEI Plans and strategies to come together to have empowering and courageous conversations about the implementation of DEI. It allows for the co-creation of solutions to increase workplace diversity & inclusion. It is perfect for organizations that recognize the value of intentional inclusive culture building and are looking to boost morale and take positive action.
By attending the Hackathon you will gain ideas on how to:
- Describe the importance of diversity and inclusion and how it is not just the ‘right’ thing to do but critical for business success.
- Change mindsets to build inclusivity into the way people think.
- Encourage ownership and participation across the company on this important topic.
- Build awareness for different people’s experiences and understanding of the team dynamics or systems that can hinder a sense of belonging or create exclusion.
- Get a global view of how people in different organizations feel and what challenges are faced.
- Generate ideas for driving positive change and drive inclusive action.
- Open up conversations and encourage the development of relationships
- Encourage diversity of thought and new ideas
- Develop skills around empathy, relationship building & problem-solving.
The topics will be as follows:
DEI Goal Setting & Monitoring
Disability Inclusivity
Cultural Sensitivity
Women in the Workplace
Age in the Workplace
Recruitment and Pipeline Challenges
Bias in the Hiring and Interviewing Process
LGBTQIA+ Inclusivity
White Privilege in the Workplace
Pay Equity
Building Powerful and Influential ERGs
Veterans
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February 16, 2023 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm EST
We use technology – the application of scientific knowledge to the practical aims of human life or, as it is sometimes phrased, to the change and manipulation of the human environment (OED) – to automate our work. Machines and software aid us in making decisions or even making decisions for us. To help us see things and do things that we ourselves cannot do because of lack of time, lack of knowledge, or lack of ability.
But technology is biased. The World Economic Forum article “ Research shows AI is often biased. Here’s how to make algorithms work for all of us” states , “Bias represents injustice against a person or a group. A lot of existing human bias can be transferred to machines because technologies are not neutral; they are only as good, or bad, as the people who develop them.” Even worse, bias infects our decisions on what technology to use and how we use technology.
Why? Because all humans are all biased. And who creates and uses technology? Humans. Consciously or subconsciously, our biases lead to discrimination. Discrimination either in the development or use of technology. So, how can we determine how bias impacts our use or development of technology?
Learning Objectives
After this workshop you will be able to:
• Describe how bias impacts the development of technology
• Describe how bias impacts the use of technology
• Describe how to select technology that minimizes bias
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