Inclusive Leadership

  • 11 Courses | 5h 20m 32s
  • 10 Books | 34h 46m
  • 7 Audiobooks | 30h 36m 39s
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Leaders benefit from diverse workforces. Explore ways to encourage diversity for better outcomes.

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Neurodiversity in the Workplace

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COURSES INCLUDED

Neurodiversity in the Workplace
Diversity isn't just about different backgrounds, but also the incredible spectrum of humanity. Neurodivergence is an area brimming with potential, including the strengths and perspectives of diverse minds, like those with autism, ADHD, and dyslexia, that can fuel innovation and reshape teamwork. In this course, you'll learn about the profound benefits of embracing neurodiversity in the workplace. You'll examine the diverse spectrum of neurodivergent conditions and explore the hurdles faced by neurodiverse individuals in the workforce. You'll also gain practical, actionable insights on fostering an inclusive environment where neurodiverse talents can thrive.
6 videos | 33m has Assessment available Badge
Adopting New Leadership Mindsets to Drive DEI
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.
7 videos | 36m has Assessment available Badge
Activating DEI Culture Shifts
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.
6 videos | 29m has Assessment available Badge
Advancing DEI with Agility
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.
7 videos | 33m has Assessment available Badge
Embedding Inclusion into Everyday Experiences
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.
7 videos | 34m has Assessment available Badge
Reimagining the Employee Experience: DEI from Hire to Retire
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.
7 videos | 36m has Assessment available Badge
Bridging Differences in Cross-cultural Communication
In today's world, business is global. No matter the industry or sector, the chances that you are working with people from another country or culture are high. Given that business is communication, the ability to communicate successfully across cultures is a mission critical skill. Communicating successfully with people from our own culture, in our own language is challenging enough. When we interact with people from other cultures, the barriers to effective communication are even more pronounced. In this course, you will learn about two principal dimensions of culture that underlie culturally different ways of communicating and learn vocabulary that will allow you to explain differences in communication styles. You will also explore barriers to communicating effectively across cultures and identify ways to overcome them.
7 videos | 26m has Assessment available Badge
Building Shared Understanding across Cultural Divides
Building good working relationships with any colleague takes time and effort, but when colleagues are from different cultures, creating productive relationships may be more challenging. Cultural differences can impact communication and even steer it away from the intended purpose. When you compound cultural differences with the need to communicate virtually, achieving effective communication becomes even more formidable. In this course, you will learn communication strategies that will help you to effectively build and maintain relationships with culturally diverse colleagues around the globe. From building initial rapport to sharing information, brainstorming, and preventing conflicts, you'll be able to recognize behaviors that will enable you to communicate effectively and achieve your business goals.
7 videos | 26m has Assessment available Badge
How Culture Impacts Communication
With so much business now happening on a global scale, cross-cultural communication is more important than ever before. Communication is always a challenge, and when diverse cultures interact, good communication can be even more challenging. To become a more efficient and effective communicator, you must acknowledge and respect cultural differences. In this course, you'll learn about the importance of taking culture and diversity into account in the workplace. You'll explore aspects of cultures that affect how people communicate across cultural boundaries. You'll also learn different considerations for speaking and writing across cultures.
7 videos | 20m has Assessment available Badge Certification PMI PDU
Using Communication Strategies to Bridge Cultural Divides
It takes time to build working relationships with people from other cultures, but it only takes a second to alienate them by inappropriately crossing cultural boundaries. That's why building relationships across cultures is so important in the current global business context, where you have to share objectives and working space with people with diverse cultural backgrounds. In this course, you will learn about dealing effectively with cultural diversity to improve cross-cultural communication and build rapport. You'll also learn about the misunderstandings and behaviors related to a culture that can hinder good communication and ways to overcome them. Finally, you'll learn strategies for giving effective presentations to people from low- and high-context cultures.
8 videos | 22m has Assessment available Badge Certification PMI PDU
Managing Multigenerational Employees
Many influences have shaped the lives and work experiences of various generations, namely the Baby Boomer, Gen X, Millennial (or Gen Y), and Gen Z generations. Because each generation has its own distinct attitudes, priorities, needs, and work habits, managers can get the best from a multigenerational workforce by using strategies that recognize the differences. In this course, you'll learn about the best practices and successful techniques for managing these multigenerational employees in the workplace. You'll also explore methods for overcoming multigeneration challenges such as ageism and stereotypes to ensure that all employees feel respected and can make a positive contribution to your organization.
7 videos | 20m has Assessment available Badge Certification PMI PDU
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BOOKS INCLUDED

BOOK SUMMARY

The 5 Disciplines of Inclusive Leaders: Unleashing the Power of All of Us
Tapia and Polonskaia show that leaders who are able to identify their own biases and those in the greater workplace, and then mitigate them, can foster an environment that optimizes individual talent and inspires the synergy needed to induce inimitable innovation. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
book Duration 13m book Authors By Alina Polonskaia, Andrés T. Tapia

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How to be an Inclusive Leader: Your Role in Creating Cultures of Belonging Where Everyone Can Thrive
In How to be an Inclusive Leader, Jennifer Brown reveals how to harness the power of diversity to create workplaces where talent shines. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
book Duration 12m book Authors By Jennifer Brown

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The 5 Disciplines of Inclusive Leaders: Unleashing the Power of All of Us
Diversity initiatives are falling short. This book shows leaders how to develop the skills needed to build sustainably inclusive organizations using a tested, research-based model developed by the global organizational consulting firm Korn Ferry.
book Duration 4h 34m book Authors By Alina Polonskaia, Andrés T. Tapia

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Inclusive Conversations: Fostering Equity, Empathy, and Belonging Across Differences
Written by an award-winning diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant, this guide is comprehensive for anyone who wants to break down the barriers that separate us and facilitate discussions on potentially polarizing topics.
book Duration 2h 40m book Authors By Mary-Frances Winters

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How to Listen and How to Be Heard: Inclusive Conversations at Work
For anyone who has ever felt their voice isn't heard at work, this is a guide on how to empower yourself and others to communicate with people who think, act, and experience things differently than you do, and do so with more confidence, candor, and authenticity.
book Duration 3h 49m book Authors By Alissa Carpenter

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Inclusive Leadership: Negotiating Gendered Spaces
Examining perceptions of leaders which are dependent on social and cultural contexts, this edited collection argues that in order to thrive and to understand the future business landscape, leaders must be inclusive and create followership.
book Duration 4h 26m book Authors By Alison Sheridan (eds), Sujana Adapa

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Inclusive Leadership: A Framework for the Global Era
Containing ideas and concepts illustrated with many real-life examples, this insightful management book introduces an inspirational new ethics-oriented approach to business and leadership for current and future leaders.
book Duration 4h 58m book Authors By Peter A. Wuffli

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How to Be an Inclusive Leader: Your Role in Creating Cultures of Belonging Where Everyone can Thrive
Drawing on years of work with many leading organizations, this book shows what leaders at any level can do to spark real change.
book Duration 2h 9m book Authors By Jennifer Brown

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Building Blocks of Workplace Inclusion
Taking you through the process of creating and implementing an inclusion strategy, this book shares best practices for employee-friendly workplaces, and discusses how to surmount some of the roadblocks and challenges you may encounter.
book Duration 28m book Authors By Evelina Silveira, Jill Walters

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Diversity at Work: The Practice of Inclusion
Outlining the key issues involved in framing, designing, and implementing inclusion initiatives for organizations and groups, this book shows how to apply the practices of inclusion and provides a unified model by employing diverse voices to address a range of related topics in multiple contexts.
book Duration 11h 17m book Authors By Barbara R. Deane (eds), Bernardo M. Ferdman
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED

AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY

The 5 Disciplines of Inclusive Leaders: Unleashing the Power of All of Us
Tapia and Polonskaia show that leaders who are able to identify their own biases and those in the greater workplace, and then mitigate them, can foster an environment that optimizes individual talent and inspires the synergy needed to induce inimitable innovation. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
audiobook Duration 27m 56s audiobook Authors By Alina Polonskaia, Andrés T. Tapia

AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY

How to be an Inclusive Leader: Your Role in Creating Cultures of Belonging Where Everyone Can Thrive
In How to be an Inclusive Leader, Jennifer Brown reveals how to harness the power of diversity to create workplaces where talent shines. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
audiobook Duration 26m 15s audiobook Authors By Jennifer Brown

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How to Be an Inclusive Leader: Your Role in Creating Cultures of Belonging Where Everyone Can Thrive
This audio edition provides a road map to create a workplace of greater mutual understanding where everyone's talents can shine. Read by the author.
audiobook Duration 4h 3m 28s audiobook Authors By Jennifer Brown

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The 5 Disciplines of Inclusive Leaders: Unleashing the Power of All of Us
This audio edition will help leaders foster the skills to deal with today's complex challenges and create a more inclusive, sustainable, and prosperous future for all of us.
audiobook Duration 8h 20m 20s audiobook Authors By Alina Polonskaia, Andrés T. Tapia

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Inclusive Conversations: Fostering Equity, Empathy, and Belonging across Differences
This audio edition is for anyone who wants to break down the barriers that separate us and facilitate discussions on potentially polarizing topics.
audiobook Duration 5h 11m 11s audiobook Authors By Mary-Frances Winters

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Leading in the Digital World: How to Foster Creativity, Collaboration, and Inclusivity
This audio edition explains how digital technologies are already reshaping organizations and work and what this means for leaders.
audiobook Duration 7h 4m 53s audiobook Authors By Amit S. Mukherjee

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It's Time to Talk about Race at Work: Every Leader's Guide to Making Progress on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
This book will show you how to get to that important next level in difficult conversations, to talk in an authentic and straightforward way about culture and diversity, and to speak from the heart with tools from the head. Using a simple eight-step approach, you'll learn communication strategies that are supported by research and have been practiced in classrooms, work meetings, therapy sessions, and more.
audiobook Duration 5h 2m 36s audiobook Authors By Kelly McDonald
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SKILL BENCHMARKS INCLUDED

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Ensuring a diverse workplace requires actively participating in and advocating for DEI supports can help foster an inclusive environment. This benchmark evaluates your understanding of this topic. Being aware of potential knowledge gaps allows you to better understand your current competency and areas for improvement, so you can find suitable content and curate your own learning path. The courses recommended at the end of this benchmark can help you fill potential gaps in your knowledge.
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