Does your organization roll out Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility training? If so, are you still left with questions or problems that you don’t know how to address? Self-directed learning in the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility space is a powerful tool to help individuals equip themselves on how to address problems and create more inclusive environments in the workplace. Here at Diversio, we have an ever-growing group of individual professionals seeking to advance their DEI knowledge and skill set. We have a diverse group of professionals from many industries all experiencing similar knowledge gaps or workplace issues hoping to find solutions through self-directed learning. I manage these learning opportunities and often get to connect with many of our participants directly. For example, this year I received a call from a team lead at a large corporation. They were thinking about taking a manager position in their company but were hesitant because as they explained, there were tensions amongst the teams due to misunderstandings, assumptions and oversites. This person wanted to impact the team positively and understand how to address these issues properly, and although their organization offered DEI learning they saw these issues as part of a bigger issue of cultural competence and unconscious bias that needed more work than a session once a year. We talked it through what their organization needed, what they were hoping for and how to position themselves to manage people successfully. We tailored their registration of our DEI Individual programs best address their learning needs. Since our training they have felt better prepared to navigate their diverse team’s needs in their new role and have even champion more DEI learning opportunities within the organization.
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