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Pathways toward Inclusive Excellence

A bundle of five (5) educational workshops for staff, faculty, and student teams focused on building connections, enhancing culture, and amplifying a better community experience.

A Five Workshop Series for Teams

These workshops are designed to help individuals and teams deepen their knowledge and understanding of leveraging equity, inclusion, and belonging through education, lived experiences, and applying those skills to action. 

Exploring and sharing personal stories involves courage, vulnerability, and honesty. It can reveal secrets, values, biases, privileges, and traditions, shaping one's identity and understanding of themselves and others. 

Bias and microaggressions can have major impacts within the classroom, workspaces, and community. This workshop allows participants to learn about implicit bias, identify three types of microaggressions, and practice the R.A.V.E.N. framework. Through practicing this framework, individuals will learn how to respond effectively to bias and microaggressions in various situations.

Three key conditions are crucial to enhancing employee engagement: psychological meaningfulness (motivation to engage), psychological availability (having the necessary resources to engage), and psychological safety (freedom to engage without fear). When these three conditions are met, employees are more likely to invest their full selves into their work, leading to higher productivity, creativity, and job satisfaction.

The workshop teaches a new communication framework for teams to allow open dialogue and growth. It emphasizes balancing care and direct challenges for meaningful connections. Interactive exercises and real-world examples promote collaboration, productivity, and development.

Inclusive leadership is an authentic approach that emphasizes fostering a culture of inclusion in the workplace. It involves guiding a diverse group of individuals while valuing each person's unique attributes impartially. Inclusive leaders must recognize their own biases and inclinations before assembling diverse teams. An inclusive leader wholeheartedly embraces Inclusive Excellence and strives to understand different cultures, question conventional practices, and advocate for fairness for all. 

 


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