A Beginner's Guide to Managing Diverse Teams
What you'll learn
- Increase your ability to communicate inclusively
- Learn more about your own biases and blind spots as a leader
- Understand your strengths and growth areas as an inclusive leader
- Develop a personalized leadership growth plan with actionable milestones to increase capacity for inclusion as a manager of diverse teams
Requirements
- Have knowledge of situational leadership and basic understandings of the differences in delegating, directing, coaching and supporting their direct reports.
- General knowledge about how to conduct regular 1:1 meetings, track and measure performance over time, as well as foundational skill sets in
- Emotional intelligence (active listening, curiosity, judgment free conversations, empathic leadership), -Ability to build rapport in a new workplace relationship
Description
As the world of work becomes smaller, it becomes more important for all people to be culturally competent and able to communicate and empower people of all backgrounds. This means your role as manager is critical to not just how each person performs, but also the culture of the workplace itself. Having the right tools for crafting belonging, and being an inclusive leader, requires managers to be more self-aware of how they are showing up, and how best to support a diversity of needs for the people they support.
If you are a people manager, you are likely already overwhelmed with the amount of responsibility and decisions that you make on a day-to-day basis. As you desire to stay current in conversations about diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, you may be wondering how to level up your allyship beyond the last great book you read.
To consistently build stamina as an inclusive leader, you must learn to communicate with a shared inclusive vocabulary and confront your own feelings of imposter syndrome as an advocate for more inclusive workspaces.
I created this course for you. It’s filled with step-by-step examples of the elements of inclusive leadership, as well as exercises for you to make each learning experience, personal and actionable. This course references my experience as an inclusive leadership coach, and leadership development facilitator and manager for nearly 2 decades. This course is filled with applicable knowledge and foundational frameworks to help you explore your own unconscious biases, relationships with power and access, and practical exercises to help you support others in your work routines and relationships immediately.
Specifically in this course you will:
Determine your internal motivation for creating more inclusive work culture and environments
Explore the tenets of psychological safety
Reinforce your understanding of diversity beyond the 6-7 legally protected classes
Identify your own biases and blind spots in your decision making
Understand each of the 4 pillars of inclusive leadership
Create a leader growth plan for your ongoing development as an inclusive leader
Learn how to ask more powerful (coaching) questions
Distinguish your roles as a manager, mentor, and sponsor to others at work
Recognize your own access to power, privilege and authority
Practice difficult conversations
Who this course is for:
- My students are people managers who are struggling to stay active in their inclusive leadership journey. They have been engaged in DEIB initiatives across the last 24 months and are searching for what’s next as they build their stamina to be inclusive leaders consistently, communicate with a shared and inclusive vocabulary, and confront their own feelings of imposter syndrome and “not enough” when it comes to being an advocate for historically marginalized populations, especially in the workplace.
- People managers with at least 1-2 years of experience
- Managers with some decision-making authority
- Leaders who are often in public facing dialogues about personnel changes and organizational culture.
- Professionals who believe in treating people fairly and in the benefits of creating cultures of belonging
Instructor
Marie is the Founder and Principal of High Tides Consulting, a learning agency that focuses on magnifying the voices of women and people of color in business spaces. She is a coach and workshop facilitator with clients all over the world.
In her first year as a business owner, Marie booked over 48 speaking engagements and was paid to coach at some of the most disruptive organizations in technology including Facebook, LinkedIn, and Spotify, while her background as an investment advisor allowed her to be equally effective coaching at some of the most prestigious financial giants: UBS, Prudential, and S&P.
She is a featured Communications professor for Laureate International University, reaching over 1 million students in over 29 countries worldwide, and a contributor to the Grovo online professional development platform, helping businesses find one stop solutions to improving employee performance in incremental steps. She is proud to now lend her voice to the Udemy learning space as well.
Marie is a professional development junkie, loves to dance, bake (and eat) pies, and lives in Brooklyn with her crazy supportive husband, and their two awesome sauce kids.