Learning Programs
Lead Diversity takes a multi-modal approach to learning, believing that learning must be tailored to different learning styles and needs and that learning is superior when it blends diverse learning settings, media, and methods.
Multi-Modal Learning
Lead Diversity also believes that learning should be shaped by the external environment and current situation of the organization. In most cases, we begin the diversity learning process with an assessment of the organization’s unique diversity learning needs. We always collaborate with an internal Diversity Learning Team to interpret assessment findings; establish a learning structure; define learning objectives; design and develop content that blends settings, media, and methods to best accomplish learning objectives; and deliver the content.
Lead Diversity provides:
- Cutting edge content licensed to the client, whose learning organization tailors and delivers the content
- Tailored or custom designed and developed learning programs, which the client delivers
- Design, development, and delivery of learning on a global scale.
In addition, Lead Diversity believes that self-awareness is central to learning, leadership, and behavior and attitude change. Self-awareness measures and applications are woven throughout all Lead Diversity learning programs. Measures often include: unconscious bias, learning style, leadership commitment, listening style, leadership style, and thinking preferences.
Fundamentally, we believe that learning in three areas is critical: executive decision making and leadership roles and responsibilities, understanding and awareness of diversity, and leadership of diverse teams. Lead Diversity designs, develops, and delivers learning programs on a host of additional topics.
Leading Diversity
Target Population: Top management team, diversity council
- Definitions of diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Self-assessment of unconscious bias
- Unconscious and conscious bias – implications, including micro-inequities and privilege
- Organizational assessment of bias
- Quotas and meritocracy
- Building a business case for diversity–elements and process, diversity as competitive advantage
- The 10 elements of global diversity strategy
- The diversity strategy process
- Developing a diversity philosophy
- Self-assessment of leadership style
- The ladder of leadership commitment – self-assessment of commitment level, roles & responsibilities of diversity leadership, and moving up the commitment ladder
Managing Across Differences
Target Population: All supervisors and managers with direct reports
- Definitions of diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Understanding and achieving competitive advantage
- The business case for diversity
- Self-assessment of unconscious bias
- Unconscious and conscious bias – implications, including micro-inequities and privilege
- Organizational assessment of bias
- Quotas and meritocracy
- Management strategies for reducing unconscious bias in hiring, performance evaluation, development, and promotion
- Stepping up to micro-inequities – recognizing micro-inequities and intervening with skill
- Self-assessment of leadership style
- Managing for inclusion and collaboration
- Self-assessment of personality traits and thinking style
- Adapting management style to the individual
- Managing conflict
- Creating an engaging working environment
- Removing barriers to meritocracy
- Self-assessment of listening style
- Guidelines for effective communication across differences
- Managing across differences, including time, distance, and culture
Working Across Differences
Target Population: All employees
- Definitions of diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Self-assessment of unconscious bias
- Unconscious and conscious bias – implications, including micro-inequities and privilege
- Quotas and meritocracy
- Stepping up to micro-inequities – recognizing micro-inequities and intervening with skill
- The business case for diversity
- Self-assessment of personality traits
- Understanding and accommodating to differences
- Crossing time, distance, and culture
- Living diversity values and beliefs
- Career self-management