Companies which are aiming to build up DEI culture or to perform DEI culture through leaders.

Leaders who expect to unleash the potential or realize talent retention of their teams in which members have diverse backgrounds, generations or even nationalities etc.

Leaders who want to develop inclusive leadership and manage leading their teams to effectively collaborate with diverse clients, discover new market, embrace new ideas and adapt rapid change.

Course Objectives

A deeper understanding of DEI and our identities.

Power dynamics of your role as a people leader.

Mitigating unconscious bias.

Addressing microaggressions.

Creating our DEI environment.

Day 1

Chapter 1: The 1st step to Inclusion - Let's Get to Know Who is in the Room

Ÿ Color Cards Questions - Getting to know each other with appreciative inquiry questions.

Chapter 2: Setting the Context

Ÿ Gain an expanded understanding of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)

Ÿ Understand the importance of DEI for organizations and employees, and its impact - WIIFM.

Ÿ Learn to appreciate the differences and uniqueness in each of us through exploring the dimensions of diversity - Understand what shapes who we are.

Ÿ Understand the power dynamics of your role as a people leader and the impact on your team.

Ÿ Recognize your responsibility as a leader in fostering a culture of inclusion.

Ÿ Understand unconscious bias, the function bias serves, the sources of bias and how it impacts the workplace.

Ÿ Recognize our implicit bias and learn practical ways to deal with it.

Ÿ Identify microaggressions (non-inclusive behaviors) in the workplace and learn what could you do as an inclusive leader.

Ÿ Experience being included and have fun!

Chapter 3: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion – What is it and Why do we need DEI

Ÿ Definition of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Ÿ The need of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - Benefits for individuals, for leaders, and for the organization

Chapter 4: What Shapes Who We Are

Ÿ Exploring our identities - Dimensions of Diversity in China (or Asia context) - DEI 1.0 Visible and DEI 2.0 Invisible

Ÿ How we are perceived and recognized

Ÿ Activity: What Shapes Our Identities

Chapter 5: Leadership and Power Dynamics

Ÿ Power and role of leader in creating an inclusive culture.

Ÿ Six types of power you have as a leader.

Ÿ Activity: Power Game

Chapter 6: How Power Plays Out in Your Environment

Ÿ The Toxic Triangle

Ÿ Activity: The Toxic Triangle

Ÿ Your responsibility in fostering a culture of inclusion.

Chapter 7: Exploring Our Experience of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Ÿ Activity: Step Forward, Step Back activity

Chapter 8: Exploring Our Biases

Ÿ Understanding bias (implicit and explicit)

Ÿ How unconscious bias is formed.

Ÿ Impact of unconscious bias on our decisions, actions, and behaviors as a leader

Ÿ Activity: Dominant characteristics and traits at our organization

Chapter 9: Dealing with Our Biases

Ÿ Sources of bias

Ÿ Common types of biases in the workplace

Ÿ Activity: Exploring stereotypes at our organization

Ÿ Our blind spots and perceptions

Ÿ Activity: My Circle of Trust

Ÿ Develop strategies to be more mindful of the potential of bias impacting organizational processes, decisions, engagement, career opportunities, interactions, and performance.

Day 2

Chapter 10: Dealing with Microaggressions

Ÿ What are microaggressions?

Ÿ Recognizing our hot buttons – types of microaggressions

Ÿ Initial reactions and alternate responses to microaggressions in our Thinking, Feeling, and Action

Ÿ Moving from reactive to proactive

Ÿ Activity: Role plays on the alternate response

Chapter 11: Speaking Up Against Microaggressions

Ÿ Dealing with microaggressions as a leader

Ÿ Barriers to speaking up.

Ÿ Practical steps to call out non-inclusive behaviors (microaggressions)

1) What would you do when you are the target?

2) What would you do when you are the bystander and manager?

3) What would you do when you are the micro aggressor?

Chapter 12: Creating a Diverse, Equity, and Inclusive Future at Our Organization - Addressing DEI 1.0

Ÿ Defining the DEI 1.0 concerns - Nature dimensions

Ÿ Understanding the impact of non-DEI behaviors on policies, processes, and procedures

Ÿ Exploring "how might we" through brainstorming and impact/effort matrix.

Ÿ Prototyping the future

Chapter 13: Creating a Diverse, Equity, and Inclusive Future at Our Organization - Addressing DEI 2.0

Ÿ Defining the DEI 2.0 concerns - Nurture dimensions

Ÿ Understanding the impact of non-DEI behaviors on policies, processes, and procedures

Ÿ Exploring "how might we" through brainstorming and impact/effort matrix.

Ÿ Prototyping the future

Chapter 14: Present Your Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Environment

Ÿ Group presentation based on your prototype.

Ÿ Identify the barriers of reaching your future and ideal state.

Ÿ Actions and behaviors that need to stop-start-continue doing.

Chapter 15: Closing and Reflection

Ÿ Learning reflection and take aways.

Ÿ Leader's personal commitment to move forward - Feedforward activity.

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