Areas of Practice
Toolbox Elements and FeaturesOur toolkits are developed and delivered
with a EDI lens and perspective.
Toolkits:
Leadership Success Maps for Individuals and Teams
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- Inventory your personal strengths and successes and areas to strengthen.
- Plan for change following a roadmap with priorities and desired outcomes.
- Collaborate with an executive coach on your leadership journey.
Workplace Culture and Politics Competence Building
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- Document observations and feelings about workplace behaviors, yours, and those of others using the “Head, Heart, and Hand” model.
- What’s the climate like?
- How does it make you feel?
- Observe unwritten rules; norms, traditions, and communication styles.
- Learn to navigate workplace culture – activate!
- Document observations and feelings about workplace behaviors, yours, and those of others using the “Head, Heart, and Hand” model.
Stakeholder Engagement Optimization
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- Activate your perspective taking to truly understand what matters to others.
- Limit working from assumptions and biases
- Take note of your communication practices and what works best with different stakeholders.
- Improve idea alignment with leaders and team members.
Strategic Leadership Engagement for New Leaders
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- As a leader, offer strategies to support new leaders.
- Organize leadership to form a mentoring circle for new leaders.
- Identify a mentorship guide used in other organizations.
Equity Gap Scorecard & Assessments
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- To achieve goals for equity and representation, scorecard and assessment plans tap into your workforce demographics and those of the local community.
- Through the application of confidential surveys, data are gathered from across the organization about practices and systems that promote inclusion and exclusion.
- Through individual interviews or focus groups, it is possible to learn about individuals’ lived experiences in the workplace.
- Data provide findings for further planning for EDI strategies.
- Scorecard and assessments are customized for your workforce.
EDI Interpersonal Competency Building
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- Professional development promotes cultural and emotional awareness, knowledge-building, and skill development to have a more inclusionary workplace.
- Personal cultural and emotional awareness supports learning about implicit biases, experiences with differences, and feelings that affect relationships with others both positively and negatively.
- Addressing cultural knowledge means also learning about perceptual filters that can be applied in interpersonal relationships.
- Nonverbal and verbal communication skills contribute to inclusionary workplace relationships.
- Navigating critical conversations
- EDI resources for training, knowledge building, and personal growth.
Leadership Scorecard & Assessments
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- Leaders and individual contributors will benefit from learning about their inclusionary leadership behaviors.
- Scorecards and assessments to address communication patterns, conflict management, and decision-making tendencies that can support EDI competency-building.
- Through leadership scorecards and assessment findings, individuals will learn about how to address situations to suit the individual (s), context, and/or dilemma.