Activating DEI Culture Shifts

Activating DEI Culture Shifts

• discover the key concepts covered in this course
• recognize key concepts for creating new patterns of thinking in decision-making
• identify actions that will help you move toward systems-thinking leadership for diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Knowledge Check: Reviewing Your Systems Thinking Skills
• identify new ways of working in support of an inclusive and innovative team culture
• recognize techniques to keep employee engagement and motivation in the work of DEI consistently high
• Knowledge Check: Assessing Your DEI Culture Shift Activation Skills
• reflect on what you've learned

With the right mindset, leaders can transform team and organizational culture. This course is designed to help leaders apply systems thinking methodology to transform team and workplace dynamics. Leaders who develop a systems-thinker approach are better equipped to honor and navigate the complexity of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. In this course, leaders and managers will learn how to push in the direction that produces an inclusive work environment, including using inclusive language, to lead toward transformation for the total enterprise, not just its component parts. You’ll also learn how a new way of leadership can support DEI, and what techniques can keep employee engagement and motivation in the work of DEI consistently high.

As part of your DEI work, we encourage you to visit www.lawanaharris.com/assessment and take a self-assessment to help you determine your strengths and weaknesses around DEI.

Adopting New Leadership Mindsets to Drive DEI

Adopting New Leadership Mindsets to Drive DEI

• discover the key concepts covered in this course
• recognize ways systems thinking applies to DEI in an organization
• identify steps to examine your organization’s and your team’s DEI goals
• Knowledge Check: Reviewing Your Leadership Mindset Skills
• recognize strategies to build organizational culture awareness for DEI
• identify ways of evaluating how organizational culture is represented in your team and processes
• recognize how growth and systems mindsets help you make DEI part of how you do business
• Knowledge Check: Assessing Your Skills in Leading a DEI Culture Shift
• reflect on what you've learned

Are you in a mindset that will help you drive DEI throughout the systems of your organization? As a leader, you hold the keys to activating DEI on your team and in your organization as you role model inclusive behaviors for the people who work for you. DEI as an initiative is multifaceted – it’s individual and programmatic, organizational and systemic, and you need a mindset that allows you to shift cultures and embedded norms to enhance every operational area. The discipline of systems thinking is an underlying philosophy that is particularly applicable to complex change efforts such as DEI. Systems thinking is more than just a collection of tools and methods – it’s a way of thinking on an ecosystem level.

In this course, you'll learn to recognize how systems thinking applies to DEI and practices for examining DEI goals. You'll also learn strategies to build organizational culture awareness for DEI, identify how organizational culture is represented in your team and processes, and recognize how to make DEI part of how you do business, including using more gender-neutral language.

As part of your DEI work, we encourage you to visit www.lawanaharris.com/assessment and take a self-assessment to help you determine your strengths and weaknesses around DEI.

Advancing DEI with Agility

Advancing DEI with Agility

• discover the key concepts covered in this course
• identify key elements of a leadership mindset that cultivates inclusion in all work environments
• identify key elements of self-leadership that improve inclusion
• Knowledge Check: Reviewing Your Self-leadership Skills
• recognize strategies to individualize inclusion and belonging for all team members
• identify techniques to embrace an intersectional approach to DEI leadership
• recognize inclusive leadership practices that promote development of the whole person
• Knowledge Check: Assessing Your Skills in Inclusive Leadership
• reflect on what you've learned

Inclusive leadership is an art and a science. Leaders need to build their capacity for creating an inclusive and safe environment where employees feel valued and included, where they can be their authentic selves. This course is designed to provide leaders with a foundation for agile, inclusive leadership that they can build on and, in turn, develop in others.

In this course, you will learn to identify a leadership mindset that cultivates inclusion in all work environments, and what key elements of self-leadership promote inclusion. You'll learn strategies to individualize inclusion and belonging for all team members, including using more inclusive language and gender-neutral pronouns, techniques for an intersectional approach to DEI leadership, and inclusive leadership practices that promote development of the whole person.

As part of your DEI work, we encourage you to visit www.lawanaharris.com/assessment and take a self-assessment to help you determine your strengths and weaknesses around DEI.

Embedding Inclusion into Everyday Experiences

Embedding Inclusion into Everyday Experiences

• discover the key concepts covered in this course
• identify strategies to weave storytelling into everyday work to lead your team to the next level of diversity, equity, and inclusion
• recognize competencies for leading and enabling inclusive conversations at work and on teams
• Knowledge Check: Reviewing Your Skills in Enabling Conversations
• identify leadership practices that embody allyship through personal accountability
• recognize techniques to use organizational resources equitably to support DEI
• identify strategies to overcome discomfort while building new inclusive habits
• Knowledge Check: Assessing Your Skills in Equitable Allyship
• reflect on what you've learned

DEI concepts are easy to train, but harder to put into practice. In our ever-changing world of work, leaders are taxed with delivering optimal results and still creating a space where people want to contribute their time, talent, energy, and creativity. This course covers the top ways for leaders to create micro-experiences that have a macro impact on the culture of their teams and their organization.

In this course, you'll learn strategies to weave storytelling into everyday work, competencies for leading and enabling inclusive conversations, including using inclusive language and chosen names and pronouns, as well as leadership practices that embody allyship through personal accountability. You'll also learn techniques to use organizational resources equitably to support DEI, and how to gain confidence in building inclusive cultures.

As part of your DEI work, we encourage you to visit www.lawanaharris.com/assessment and take a self-assessment to help you determine your strengths and weaknesses around DEI.

Reimagining the Employee Experience: DEI from Hire to Retire

Reimagining the Employee Experience: DEI from Hire to Retire

• discover the key concepts covered in this course
• recognize key elements of developing a DEI scorecard as a first step in ensuring systemic DEI
• identify strategies to create an inclusive talent acquisition experience in an organization
• Knowledge Check: Reviewing Your Inclusive Talent Acquisition Skills
• recognize techniques to enable talent to develop and advance equitably
• identify strategies to democratize DEI leadership in association with employee groups
• identify techniques to ensure inclusion in policies, processes, and systems
• Knowledge Check: Assessing Your Inclusive Talent Advancement Skills
• reflect on what you've learned

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are not just initiatives and programs – they are cultural DNA that can completely transform an organization, drive business, and generate positive results for people, organization, and community. This course is designed to provide organizational leaders and HR leaders with a toolkit for designing a diverse, equitable, and inclusive employee and leadership experience from first interactions onward. It provides practical examples for infusing inclusion into every aspect of the employee experience.

In this course, you will learn the key elements of developing a DEI scorecard as a first step in ensuring systemic DEI, strategies to create an inclusive talent acquisition experience including using inclusive language and gender-neutral honorifics, and techniques to enable talent to develop and advance equitably. You'll also learn ways to democratize DEI leadership in association with employee groups and techniques to ensure inclusion in policies, processes, and systems.

As part of your DEI work, we encourage you to visit www.lawanaharris.com/assessment and take a self-assessment to help you determine your strengths and weaknesses around DEI.