diversity training

Beth SchaeferMarch 16, 2023

The Risk Register | Past Leadership Toolbox Expert Insights Webinar

Audience: Decision makers (Large or Small) for organizations on resources, projects, processes, and strategy.

Description:
Every decision you make (or delay making or avoid) carries an element of risk.

Psychology Today’s latest research states that you make 35,000 decisions each day! That equates to about 2000 decisions per hour, and in an 8-hour work day that is 16,000 decisions related to work daily! You are already informally, subconsciously, or automatically calculating risk for your job 16,000 times each day. You could spend your whole day analyzing risk, or you could determine when to move those risk decisions from being automatic to being calculated. This Leadership Toolbox session will show you how and when to use a risk register. It is easy, and like any good tool, it will not only impress your leaders and colleagues, it will also provide an opportunity for collaboration and input.

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Takeaways:

Learn to build a risk register
Determine when to use a risk register
Understand the risk of doing nothing

ABOUT THE PRESENTER: You know Beth Schaefer as the host of the Expert Insights series, but she also manages the staff of the Institute for Professional Development at Metro State as part of the university’s leadership team. Before her role at Metro State, Beth was the director of an area learning center serving grades 7 – 12. In this role, she led teachers, staff, students, and parents through experiential learning and the changes that occurred during those secondary education years. In her leadership roles, Beth mostly navigates change that is generated by external forces (economy, pandemic, legislation) to meet the needs of customers while lacking the time, money, and resources that would make those changes easier to lead.

IPDFebruary 20, 2023

Moving Off the Diversity Plateau to Equity & Inclusion | Past DEI Expert Insights Webinar

Free Expert Insights Webinar

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Most organizations want to diversify their team; however, diversity alone does not achieve what we often believe it does. While the “D” in DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) gets the most attention, the “EI” (Equity and Inclusion) is fundamental for creating an environment that supports diversity. Whether you’re a supervisor, or HR leader, or just want to increase your DEI knowledge, this webinar will be useful for you!

Takeaways:

Learn and understand the difference between Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Learn 3 strategies to remove barriers in the workplace
Learn tools for creating an inclusive work environment
Find out how to continue advancing DEI within your organization

Audience: Supervisors, HR Leaders

PRESENTER:

Destyn Land

Beth SchaeferJune 2, 2021

Five Criteria For High-Quality Diversity Training

The workplace is full of buzzwords … Some that you may know and love (?) are: pivot, synergy, transparency, bandwith…

Most started out positive, but have devolved into a joke because they are more talk than walk (another overused workplace buzzphrase).

This year, “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” have also become words the workplace uses more and more. The difference; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) are not just buzzwords.

These values deserve and need to be a focus in our workplace goals and strategies and are far too important to just end up a part of the buzzword pile.

Instead of just talking, taking action to make real change should be part of the strategy going forward and training for your workplace is often a good first step.

Please be aware that the popularity of DE&I has made many trainers become sudden experts; all eager to sell your organization on their training. When I searched Google 1,370,000,000 results came up under “Diversity Training.” With so much to choose from, how do you sift through all of these training options and find one that will actually be affordable and make a difference?

To save you time, I researched what makes a good DE&I trainer and combined the information I found into five key criteria.

Training and trainers should…

Focus on changing behavior, not just increasing awareness.
Directly teach actions of inclusion. Do not assume that people know how to intuitively be inclusive even when they want to be.
Encourage leaders to also attend training that is focused on improving their own DEI-related skills.
Offer organizations assistance in setting DE&I strategy and training goals that are actionable and in the forefront of the organization’s goals and work.
Have individuals set a measurable diversity goal to work on outside of the training session. The goal should be just outside their comfort zone with support that encourages, not shames mistakes.

Please keep in mind that even if diversity training for your organization seems impossible right now, you can use the criteria as an inspirational list while you start putting resources towards meaningful intentional workplace changes.

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