A Beginner’s Guide to Managing Diverse Teams

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