Building a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Foundation
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are more than just buzzwords — they are essential to your organization’s success. This course will introduce you to the critical concepts needed for building a solid foundation of DEI. These expert-led sessions will provide best practices, insight, and the knowledge necessary to navigate the increasingly vital subject of DEI. Participants will learn how to attract and hire diverse candidates and create a culture where team members feel respected, valued, and included.
Who Should Attend?
- Business owners, executives, and managers who want to create a more diverse and inclusive work culture and improve the overall performance of their organization
- Human resource professionals who are responsible for recruiting, hiring, and retaining a diverse workforce
- Employees who are interested in developing their understanding of DEI and want to contribute to a more inclusive workplace
- Educators, trainers, and consultants who want to build their expertise in DEI and help organizations become more inclusive
- Anyone who is passionate about promoting DEI and wants to make a positive impact in their workplace or community
Classes & Dates
Building a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Foundation
This series will run for 2 hours each Thursday for 4 weeks from 1-3 pm.
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1Creating a Culture of Inclusion
- Employee recruiting and hiring
- Global Staffing
- Internal communication
- Work/life balance
- Performance Management
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Explore how a culture of inclusion benefits an organization
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Build a framework for inclusivity and respect in your workplace
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Discover best practices for leading an increasingly diverse workforce regarding generations, cultures, genders, backgrounds, and experiences
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2Hiring for Diversity and Inclusion
It is common for companies to talk about the desire to have a more diverse workforce. Diversity in the workplace is associated with better performance and happier employees, and companies with diverse workforces typically outperform their competitors. Diversity begins with a more inclusive recruitment program and strategy. If organizations use the same recruiting processes as they have always used, their recruitment results will remain the same. It isn’t enough to hope that your recruitment pool will contain more diverse candidates. Join us for an interactive session to learn practical strategies you can use right away to create an inclusive recruitment and hiring process. In this skill-building session, you will:
- Identify a variety of language, generational, and cultural issues that may affect recruitment, retention, and teambuilding
- Summarize strategies to avoid unconscious bias and potential legal issues in decision-making during the recruitment and hiring process
- Write inclusive job announcements
- Explain how to conduct an interview with cultural competency
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3Intro to Generational Diversity
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Describe and discuss the five different generations in the workplace by evaluating their differing outlooks, expectations, and generalized work performances
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Evaluate the impact of an aging workforce on your organization
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Define the leader’s role in managing the differing generations
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Recognize the impact of age discrimination in the workplace
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4An Introduction to Unconscious Bias
With self-compassion, identify and overcome bias, judgments, and prejudice in the workplace
This engaging and insightful self-awareness program respectfully explores sensitive, useful, and important information on unconscious bias for any company with employees from different cultural or generational backgrounds. It goes beyond understanding differences and offers practical tips for respectfully and effectively leveraging uniqueness and commonalities among employees to boost morale, engagement, and your bottom line. In this session you will:
- Introduce Unconscious Bias and its impact on behavior
- Increase knowledge and awareness about our uniqueness and positive impact on behavior
- Discuss the impact of respectful behavior and our responsibility in the workplace
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5Allyship and Advocacy
Learn how each one of us can work together to cultivate a workplace culture of allyship and advocacy for all
Allyship refers to acknowledging our position of advantage and using it to support and include those who are less advantaged. As allies, we actively and consistently advocate for increasing inclusion, minimizing bias, and advancing equity in our companies. In recent years allyship has had an increased focus in the workplace. Still many wonder what allyship looks like day to day. Learn how can advocate to create a workplace culture that cultivates allyship and opportunities in this engaging new workshop. In this session you will:
- Recognize the importance and necessity of speaking up; include and hear all voices, from new hires to senior leaders
- Discover how to extend (and seek) development opportunities, applying a growth mindset in your workplace to level the playing field for all
- Explore and consider more equitable practices in your existing organizational systems to mitigate bias and allow for new growth possibilities
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6Creating Psychological Safety
Explore the number one factor of successful people and teams that will set you apart at work
Human beings have core needs of safety and belonging, according to Abraham Maslow. Clearly psychological safety matters, but what is it? And how do we build it at work? The truth is everyone gets to be involved. Everyone contributes. Whether it’s a new employee or someone
seasoned, we can all agree the wants and needs in a company’s culture are changing and have been for some time. The days of checking your personal life at the door, power and control leadership styles, and never speaking up is no longer what the workforce wants. Leaning into the trends and desires benefits the company exponentially. By the end of this knowledge-building session, you’ll be able to:
- Describe what a psychologically safe workplace looks and feels like
- Recognize how neuroscience impacts psychological safety and productivity at work
- Demonstrate examples of interpersonal skills and behaviors necessary to creating a psychologically safe workplace
- Summarize why fostering belonging at work is ongoing and critical to success
Register for Building a DEI Foundation
Take the time to understand DEI, Register today to be part of this program, network with your peers, and learn how to power your career.
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Building a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Foundation
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Course Name
Building a DEI Foundation
Registration is currently open
Classes Begin
Thursday, Jun 8, 2023
Registration Deadline
Thursday, Jun 8, 2023
If you need help registering or applying for a grant, please contact Kallee McGraw or schedule a call.
FAQs
Building a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Foundation
“Training Just for You” is a training program that any individual from any company can sign up to attend. You’ll join a group of peers from other companies for weekly training sessions. AIM HR Solutions holds these sessions virtually; you can view our calendar of upcoming “Training Just for You” events here. “Training for Your Company” means that we will work with you to deliver training to your company, virtually or onsite. Contact Kelly McInnis if you want to learn more about holding training for your company.
All of our Training Just For You programs are currently virtual only. If you are interested in AIM HR Solutions offering this program virtually or onsite for your company, contact Kelly McInnis.
This course is eligible for the Express Program or the General Grant through the Workforce Training Fund Program. To learn more about this grant and how we can help, you can download our Learning & Development Catalog. If you still have more questions, you can contact Kelly McInnis.
All of our “Training Just for You” programs are held virtually and therefore can be attended by individuals anywhere in the world! Training for your company can also be offered in a virtual format to employees located anywhere. We currently do not offer in-person training outside of Massachusetts. To talk about how we may be able to support you, please contact Kelly McInnis.
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