Exploring Unconscious Bias

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Exploring Unconscious Bias

In order to cultivate high performing organizations, we must tap into the rich resources of our global community and ensure fairness and justice in the workplace. To accomplish this, we define diversity broadly, including, but not limited to the legally protected categories. Diversity encompasses all that makes us unique, which allows us to realize our full performance potential and harness the innovation that diversity offers. Participants will discover ways to become more self-aware as leaders and build stronger, more inclusive teams. You will learn frameworks and models that you can leverage to capitalize on your organization’s diversity of backgrounds, ethnicities, origins, and perspectives, among others.

Learning Objectives

  • Identify various forms of bias and deepen awareness of unconscious bias in particular
  • Apply learning to organizational outcomes and team performance
  • Employ practices that examine organizational or company culture for unconscious bias or accidental discrimination

Establishing a Growth Mindset: Developmental Feedback

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Establishing a Growth Mindset: Developmental Feedback

Conversations around feedback are often regarded as some of the most difficult in the workplace. Participants will learn clear definitions of feedback; clear, simple frameworks to use in feedback conversations; and how to effectively partner with mentees to build feedback ability, in service of personal and professional development for all. (90 min workshop)

Learning Objectives

  • Explain effective feedback tactics
  • Design and provide developmental feedback to encourage and inspire progress
  • Practice giving feedback

Developing Your Leadership Style

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Developing Your Leadership Style

Map your leadership journey and make commitments in service of professional development. Participants will leverage key principles of Leading from the Center to build your knowledge and identify your personal growth opportunities. You will also evaluate a current challenge in your workplace and learn a variety of tools and perspectives to powerfully solve it. (90 min workshop)

Learning Objectives

  • Define how to take ownership in your personal leadership journey
  • Understand new perspectives about your 15% solutions and shifts you can make to optimize your impact

Designing a Culture of Innovation: An Introduction

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Designing a Culture of Innovation: An Introduction

In today’s VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) environment, agile approaches to innovation are key to not only success, but survival. Unfortunately, many organizations and government agencies lag behind in their understanding and application of frameworks and tools that support innovation at the project and organizational level. Participants discover key innovation principles and how to immediately apply them to a wicked problem. By using IDEO’s Design Thinking approach, you will learn how to rapidly prototype and test solutions in order to better serve your customers and achieve your organization’s goals. (90 min workshop)

Learning Objectives

  • Identify key innovation concepts and principles
  • Recognize innovation in practice through Design Thinking
  • Practice with innovation through design thinking applied to a current challenge or problem

Conversing with Leaders

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Conversing with Leaders

Designed as a space for staff to learn from experienced leaders within your organizations.
Trainers prepare relevant questions and guide leaders to reflect on their career journeys, share
stories about how they have grown as leaders, overcome obstacles, and advance in their
professional careers. (60 min workshop)

Learning Objectives

  • Analyze experienced leaders professional growth and career journeys
  • Connect your personal career path with potential development opportunities

Building Organizational Resilience

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Building Organizational Resilience

Leaders are responsible for preparing, surviving, managing, and emerging from ongoing stressors and shocks to your organizations. Building organizational resilience provides leaders with a lens and key guiding questions to identify which areas of your organizations you might focus on to increase overall resilience. Additionally, leaders will also have opportunities to engage with one another and learn what’s worked for other leaders in the past and in their various contexts.

Learning Objectives

  • Recognize scientific principles applicable to leading organizations through ongoing stressors and shocks
  • Apply tools to gain a better understanding of the strengths and vulnerabilities of your organization
  • Create an action plan of shifts leaders will make in your organizations that build additional resilience

Assessing Your People and Writing Clear and Helpful Evaluations

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Assessing Your People and Writing Clear and Helpful Evaluations

Discover how to use evaluations to help improve team member’s performance, providing them goals to help them envision and achieve success. Through a series of frameworks and tools, participants will explore ways to design effective evaluations that lead to actionable results. (90 min workshop)

Learning Objectives

  • Explain the differences in assessments as a career mentor from evaluation as a clinician or scientist
  • Design and communicate strong narrative feedback in written form
  • Interpret evaluations and communicate insights from evaluations for actionable results