Sometimes, a person may feel truly seen and respected in diverse environments.
Sometimes, a person may feel truly seen and respected in diverse environments. Other times, a person may feel that their work relationships are hindered because special parts of their identity are being ignored. This issue often arises when organizations prioritize diversity but not inclusion, which are values that tend to work best together. So, what does effective inclusion look like in a psychologically safe organization?
This course will guide you through the authentic practices that enable all employees to be free to share ideas, ask questions, and interact as their true selves. As you learn to facilitate an engaging environment of true acceptance, you may notice that psychological safety is a way to bring out the most creative and effective strengths in your workforce.
In these lessons on Psychological Safety and HR Strategy, we’ll show you how to increase employee motivation and trust by learning ways to acknowledge and leverage the differences in your workforce. We’ll show you how to improve relationships, increase productivity, and retain talent through techniques for creating an inclusive environment. You’ll be better able to overcome barriers like implicit bias, as you plan strategies to create more inclusiveness. And, we’ll discuss how to enhance employee participation by applying best practices to remove barriers to inclusivity and psychological safety.
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss diversity in a psychologically safe workplace
- Integrate policies and practices that contribute to an inclusive space
- Identify unsafe practices
- Examine how management and HR can promote participation and engagement
Skills you’ll gain
Diversity StrategiesDiversity TrainingHuman Resource StrategyIndustrial And Organizational PsychologyPersonnel PsychologyWorkplace DiversityWhat You'll Learn
- Discuss diversity in a psychologically safe workplace
- Integrate policies and practices that contribute to an inclusive space
- Identify unsafe processes and practices that undermine inclusion
- Examine how management and HR can promote participation and engagement
- Develop strategies and initiatives that remove barriers to inclusivity
Key Takeaways
- Psychological safety enables all employees to share ideas, ask questions, and interact as their true selves.
- Diversity and inclusion work best together, since prioritizing diversity without inclusion can leave parts of an employee's identity ignored.
- Acknowledging and leveraging differences in the workforce can increase employee motivation and trust.
- Creating an inclusive environment can improve relationships, increase productivity, and help retain talent.
- Overcoming barriers like implicit bias supports planning strategies for greater inclusiveness.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is this course for?
It is designed for management and HR professionals who want to acknowledge and leverage differences in their workforce and promote participation and engagement in a psychologically safe, inclusive environment.
What topics does the course cover?
Through lessons on acknowledging diversity, creating inclusiveness, identifying unsafe processes and practices, promoting a participatory culture, and developing strategy and initiatives, it covers how to build a psychologically safe and inclusive workplace.
What skills will I gain from this course?
The course builds skills in diversity strategies, diversity training, human resource strategy, industrial and organizational psychology, personnel psychology, and workplace diversity.
How does the course help with employee retention and productivity?
It shows how to improve relationships, increase productivity, and retain talent through techniques for creating an inclusive environment, including applying best practices to remove barriers to inclusivity and psychological safety.
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(gentle inspiring music) (cymbals whooshing) If you've heard the phrase, check the box, you know it means completing something, usually superficially, just to say it's done. This can be the case with diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We think that because we've hired people with different backgrounds that we've checked the diversity box. The truth is that diversity and inclusion should be something that we give more than just passing attention to if we want our business to thrive. In these lessons on psychological safety and HR strategy we'll show you how to increase employee motivation and trust by learning ways to acknowledge and leverage the differences in your workforce. How to improve relationships, increase productivity, and retain talent through techniques for creating an inclusive environment, and how to enhance employee participation by applying best practices to remove barriers to inclusivity and psychological safety.
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