Inclusion Management Learning Sessions (In-person or Virtual)

Inclusion management goes beyond DEI to help today’s leaders forge a new mindset for managing the unique challenges and opportunities posed by an economy driven by the uniquely human capabilities of knowledge, information, creativity, innovation, and service. The narrow focus of traditional DEI practices can obscure the signs of a toxic and inefficient culture that people of color, women, and LGBTQ+ experience more acutely, but also negatively impact the larger talent community. Our inclusion management learning series takes a systems approach to understand how operational inefficiencies foster bias and exclusion and corrode the creativity and innovation required to drive growth in the 21st century. 

Beyond DEI: How to Manage Humans for the 21st Century introduces a new mindset for managing human diversity and talent in an era fueled by knowledge, information, creativity, and innovation, and defines inclusion management and the inclusion management mission. What’s Happening at the Blindspot: How Bias Stunts Creativity, Innovation, and Growth is an engaging explanation of how biases are like hangups, we all got ‘em. The goal of this session is to help everyone in your organization understand how to upgrade organizational processes to minimize bias while unleashing the potential of your entire talent force. 

Inclusive Talent Management Workshops (In-person or Virtual)

These workshops put inclusive talent engagement and nurturing at the center of your organizational strategy and elevate the role of talent management partners to leaders of the inclusion management imperative.

Inclusive Talent Management Workshop: Recruiting, Interviewing, and Hiring

The key to increasing inclusion and creating talent gravity is improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the recruiting, interviewing, and hiring processes. In this workshop, we explain how to 

• Define performance-based job expectations, requirements, and interview questions
• Create job descriptions to focus on “must haves” rather than inconsistent and exclusionary “nice to haves.”
• Compose interview and candidate advocacy teams to showcase team chemistry and foster the momentum new hires need to achieve job success.
• Articulate a consistent and compelling organizational narrative to attract candidates from a wide array of backgrounds and experiences. 
• Avoid the missteps of exclusion and bias that turn off great talent.

Inclusive Talent Management Workshop: Evaluation, Promotion, and Succession

Create job success and talent gravity by building a fair, inclusive, and equitable advancement and succession process using evidence-based tools and more efficient processes. In this workshop, we explain how to 

• Build a scorecard and panel evaluation processes to fuel more inclusive, equitable advancement based on explicit competency criteria.
• Identify and eliminate “ghost rules” creating confusion around current and future expectations of job performance.  
• Improve decision-making to establish and deepen managerial credibility around the advancement of talent. 
• Reduce bias and exclusion by intentionally building teams that minimize “sameness” and advance complementary capabilities and performance profiles.
• Identify more precisely areas for learning and development while reducing the need for the dreaded “PIP” Personal Improvement Plan.
• Get ahead of succession planning through evidence-based assessments of leadership potential.

Inclusive Conversations and Conflict Management Workshop (In-person or Virtual)

Agile, influential 21st-century leaders, managers, and individual contributors are solutions-focused, not problem-focused. This session establishes the principles of solution building, beginning with the SIMPLE premise: Where do you want to go today? This session will provide you with the foundations for creating customers and advocates for positive change, an essential skill for building and leading a culture where everyone feels safe, valued, heard, and productive. The playbook also provides your team with guidance and tools to use solution-building techniques for a variety of challenging conversations including conflict management, strategy development, mediation, everyday talent management, coaching, internal consulting, facilitation, and project management. 

Inclusive Creativity: Content, Product, and Service Management Workshop (In-person or Virtual)

Building and managing content, products, and services require inclusive creativity and demand more than a diversity audit or commitment to diverse suppliers and audiences. This workshop provides a roadmap to help your teams create content, products, and services that are memorable, meaningful, and remarkable to an increasingly multicultural and global market. This workshop introduces inclusion interventions designed to short circuit bias and exclusion while unlocking the creative potential of all team members who participate in creating, making, and distributing what your company does best. You and your team will walk away with actionable ways to rewire your process to encourage more inclusive storytelling and product and service development. 

Managing Employee Resource Groups (ERG) for Impact and Business Success Workshop (In-person or Virtual)

Unleash the untapped potential of your employees via their culture, lifestyle, age, or ability to increase engagement, reduce churn and enhance your employer brand. There are two workshops (employee and management) that provide roadmaps to help managers and employees connect and participate more effectively in the company mission while also creating safe spaces and shared perspectives. Your team will walk away with ERG best practices customized to apply to your organization’s vision, mission, and operating principles. The workshop will also include guidelines for employee relationship and communication management.