February is Black History Month in the USA! Black History Month is an annual observance originating in the United States, where it is also known as African-American History Month. This curated list of courses focuses on celebrating differences, building diverse teams, and fostering respect.
Course Date: On Demand
Description: 8 min
Description: Black History Month is a time to celebrate the lives and achievements of Black Americans. But how did it get its start, and what does it really signify? Learning about and celebrating cultures different from your own is a way to foster inclusion, empathy, and allyship in both your work environment and community. In this course, you’ll learn the significance of Black History Month, explore how it came into being, and learn about significant figures in the movement. You’ll also discover prominent Black Americans who have made important contributions throughout American history. By the end of this course, you’ll learn how Black History Month is observed and how you can join in the celebration.
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Course Date: On Demand
Course Duration: 10 min
Description: Leaders make decisions that change lives. From hiring, promoting, and dismissing employees to investing funds, betting on new ideas, and deciding on the future of the organization, leaders decide who adds and who takes away value for the organization. Unfortunately, bias against an individual’s race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, age, and other social identities can cause a leader to unintentionally come to faulty conclusions about an individual. Unchecked bias among leadership can result in failing to fully leverage talent, being too slow to notice new trends, and miscalculating risk. While overcoming bias has always been a challenge, it has become a necessary leadership skill in today's world. The globalization and diversification of the workforce, coupled with the increased social demand for justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion has made understanding bias critical for anyone with leadership aspirations or responsibilities.
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Course Date: On Demand
Course Duration: 20 min
Description: Racial bias and prejudice continues to impact negatively on the working lives of people from a BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) background. This course looks at the nature of the problem and sets out what we can all do to tackle it. While there has been a significant decline in overt racist behaviours over the past 40 or 50 years, subtle manifestations of racial bias continue to have a negative impact on people from a black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) background. Developed in partnership with Professor Binna Kandola, Senior Partner and co-founder of business psychology consultancy Pearn Kandola, this course takes a bold look at the nature of 'modern racism' and its influence in the workplace, and sets out steps that we can all take to ensure that our decisions are free from bias and that we behave in an inclusive manner that promotes true equality.
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Course Date: On Demand
Description: 5(m)
Description: Diversity isn’t just progress for the sake of progress. Having a team made up of various ethnicities, different genders, and a range of ages actually increases your creativity and productivity. That’s because people who come from various backgrounds with various levels of experience broaden your perspective. This course will show you the error in cultural conformity and teach you to diversify your team or network. You can even expand your own experience by becoming a minority yourself.
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Course Date: On Demand
Course Duration: 15 minutes
Description: Microaggressions are one aspect on the spectrum of racism. They are interpersonal, everyday occurrences that have a significant impact. When faced with the need to eradicate racism in our society, it can feel like an overwhelming task. Understanding the macro effects of microaggressions, and how to address them, is a great place to start.
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Course Date: On Demand
Course Duration: 12 minutes
Description: Ethics are the moral map we use to help guide us through our lives. They’re how we distinguish right from wrong. This module focuses on four widely accepted ethical principles: fairness, honesty, integrity and respect. Goal: The goal of this course is to reinforce the importance of behaving ethically and following the ethical principles in the performance of your job.
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Course Date: On Demand
Course Duration: 12 minutes
Description: We’ve all heard the expression “tolerate diversity.” But tolerance means the bare minimum, the starting point. You don’t learn from someone you’re simply tolerating. You cannot collaborate effectively with someone with whom you’re merely trying to co-exist. Our organization benefits the most when we truly champion our differences. Goal: The goal of this course is to make trainees aware of the fact that tolerance of the diversity in our workplace is not enough. This course shows how the effectiveness of our organization can be improved upon when we embrace an inclusive approach and Champion Diversity.
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Course Date: On Demand
Course Duration: 20 minutes
Description: Ensuring a Respectful Workplace is part of the Cutting Edge Communication Comedy Series. A powerful training series covering over 80 workplace topics every workplace needs to address. Short, sharp and funny with simple messages and skills for everyone. Cutting Edge Communication follows several characters through a landscape of social faux pas, insult and embarrassment. This series will amaze and enter-train, covering important lessons in human interaction, motivation, leadership, service, unprofessional behavior, apologizing, negotiating, stress, and difficult people, among many other workplace hot button issues. In Ensuring a Respectful Workplace,Serena is concerned that the culture lacks basic elements of respect. Some team members confront Carol about her racist and insensitive comments. Meanwhile Sam and Sanjay ridicule Serena, which she overhears. Carol also overhears and is both amused and shocked. Serena is devastated. Carol sees the perfect opportunity to give Serena a pep talk and help her get back on the horse.
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Course Date: On Demand
Course Duration: 16 minutes
Description: Welcome to "Effective Team Building and Collaboration Skills," a course designed for leaders, team members, and aspiring professionals. Throughout this training, you'll gain valuable insights and tools to foster high-performing, collaborative teams. Dive into team dynamics, effective communication, conflict resolution, modern collaboration tools, and more. Discover the significance of trust, open communication, diversity, and shared goals in cultivating high-performing teams. Learn to navigate communication barriers arising from cultural differences, language barriers, and remote work challenges. Explore the power of collaborative tools and practical communication skills, essential for seamless teamwork. Uncover the art of conflict resolution and the role of digital tools in enhancing collaboration. By the end of this course, you'll be equipped to lead and contribute to successful teams, turning challenges into opportunities. Build a collaborative culture, leverage digital tools effectively, and motivate your team for sustained high performance.
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Course Date: On Demand
Course Duration: 15 minutes
Description: A sense of belonging is a natural, basic need. Part of how you define yourself depends on what types of groups to which you belong: family units, social groups, religious affiliations, and common interest groups such as fitness, music, or hobbies. The need to feel like you belong doesn’t end when you enter the workplace. The workplace is another group to which you belong, and another way for you to define yourself. Although there may be many differences in coworkers’ personalities, behaviors and beliefs, it is important to avoid exclusive behaviors and learn to respect each others differences to productively work together as one team.
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Course Date: On Demand
Course Duration: 25 minutes
Description: According to a global Gallup survey, trust is the number one thing employees want from leaders. In this Being a Kind Leader course, Developing Trust, participants will learn a new way to think about, develop and build trust in today's multi-dimensional, multicultural workplace. They will take a 20-question self-assessment and receive a downloadable PDF that includes a customized action plan based on their responses. Being a Kind Leader: Developing Trust is based on the work of Dr. Robin Denise Johnson, a Harvard- and Brown-educated coach, author, educator and dancer, who magnificently integrates her extensive education and her glorious range of experiences and encounters. This award-winning course represents Dr. Johnson's expertly synthesized research and includes specific skills that will change your relationship with your role, your colleagues and your life. Being a Kind Leader: Developing Trust meets high standards of accessibility and includes an engaging combination of video scenarios, activities and exercises to ground learners' understanding. The course will support your diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives to promote allyship, bystander intervention, team building and inclusive leadership.
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Course Date: On Demand
Course Duration: 1 hour and 15 minutes
Description: In these 22 lessons, you will learn how to interrupt bias throughout the talent cycle while building your inclusive leadership skills. Each lesson is designed to be short with an average of 3 minutes. We want you to watch, reflect, and practice. Each lesson will build on the next, growing your knowledge and skills along the way. These are purposefuly designed to be daily skill builders leading to inclusive behavior change.
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Course Date: On Demand
Course Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes
Description: In these lessons, you will learn the basics of bias, come to understand we all have bias and learn how to interrupt bias to create a more inclusive environment. Each lesson is designed to be short with an average of 3 minutes. We want you to watch, reflect and practice. Each lesson will build on the next, growing your knowledge and skills along the way. These are purposefully designed to be daily skill builders leading to inclusive behavior change.
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