Overview
Learn about the challenges and opportunities inherent in working in diverse organizations. This transformative learning path reviews current thinking and best practices on essential topics such as bias in all of its forms, cultural competence, communication, allyship, and accountability.
- Define diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
- Engage in conversations about polarizing topics.
- Connect on a deeper level with colleagues and peers.
Syllabus
- Course 1: Unconscious Bias
- Learn how to understand and identify your own biases so that you can begin to make more thoughtful hiring, promotion, and interpersonal decisions in your everyday life.
- Course 2: Becoming an Ally to All
- Learn about the importance of allyship, how to become an ally, and how you can grow and mature as an ally.
- Course 3: Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging
- Diversity, inclusion, and belonging (DIBs) is the foundation for equitable workplaces. Learn how to activate DIBs to build a more diverse, innovative, and productive organization.
- Course 4: Confronting Bias: Thriving Across Our Differences
- Continue your Thrive journey and discover how to interact with others across differences.
- Course 5: Skills for Inclusive Conversations
- Learn to have productive and inclusive conversations about race, religion, and gender.
- Course 6: Communicating about Culturally Sensitive Issues
- Explore principles and strategies that can help you have more productive, meaningful conversations about diversity.
- Course 7: Understanding and Supporting Asian Employees
- Learn about the diversity of the Asian community and issues impacting Asian employees. Understand why their experiences matter and how to support them in an inclusive workplace.
- Course 8: Communicating Across Cultures
- Develop your cross-cultural communications skills to communicate and collaborate better with managers, colleagues, and employees around the globe.
- Course 9: Bystander Training: From Bystander to Upstander
- Become an upstander and change the trajectory of your organization’s culture. Learn specific, actionable tools to stand up to harassment and bullying occur in your workplace.
Taught by
Stacey A. Gordon, MBA, Kenji Yoshino, Pat Wadors, Vernā Myers, Mary-Frances Winters (She/her/hers), Daisy Lovelace, Sarah-SoonLing Blackburn, Tatiana Kolovou and Catherine Mattice, MA, SPHR, SHRM-SCP