Sample Workshops
Realities of Bias
This workshop helps employees in better understanding their own implicit biases after taking the BiasSync course and assessing their implicit race and gender biases. The training will focus on the impact of implicit bias throughout human development (i.e., childhood and work experiences).
Microaggressions
Participants will learn how our unconscious biases are related to the verbal behavior known as microaggressions. The goal of the workshop will be to help attendees better understand how these statements can reduce inclusion for individuals from multiple social identities (i.e., race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, socio-economic status, religion, etc.).
Inclusive Hiring
This workshop serves to share the context and background of why inclusive hiring is important, mindsets and perspectives that minimize and maximize inclusive hiring, solutions and strategies to create intentional inclusive hiring systems and decisions, and ways to use retention as a tool to help the sustainability of inclusive hiring.
Openness and
Cognitive Empathy
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In this session, participants will come to understand how openness and cognitive empathy interact and can be harnessed for inclusive leadership. Techniques will be provided in how to respond to challenging conversations and situations. Upon the session conclusion, participants will be empowered to make personal commitments to new inclusive leadership practices.
Resilience: A Tool for Personal and Professional Growth
This workshop presents participants with a framework developed by the expert entitled “The Ferriswheel of Fatigue.” In this workshop the expert also helps participants beware of certain self-focused and professionally damaging behaviors that research shows stifles professional success and emotional outcomes. Proactive solutions and strategies are then presented so that participants can make an action-based plan to stretch and be more resilient at work in the face of traditional and identity-based stressors.
Managing and Responding to Social Issue at Work
This training will help guide leaders and employees through the journey of being empathetically responsive to issues happening in the wider society that can impact the interpersonal dynamics at work. In this session leaders will understand the opportunity and pitfalls of how certain actions and inactions lead to varying outcomes, such as morale, engagement, reputation, and retention. Understanding that subgroups within the organization can have different needs during these moments is critical to being empathetic and transparent with your employee base.
