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
What You'll Learn
- Discuss diversity within 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 strategy and initiatives that remove barriers to inclusivity and psychological safety
Key Takeaways
- Diversity and inclusion work best together, and prioritizing diversity without inclusion can leave parts of an employee's identity ignored.
- Psychological safety allows all employees to be free to share ideas, ask questions, and interact as their true selves.
- 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 is part of planning strategies for greater inclusiveness.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does this course cover?
The course covers authentic inclusion practices in a psychologically safe organization, including acknowledging diversity, creating inclusiveness, identifying unsafe processes and practices, promoting a participatory culture, and developing strategy and initiatives.
Who is this course for?
It is geared toward those facilitating an inclusive environment, including management and HR, as it discusses how management and HR can promote participation and engagement.
What skills will I gain from this course?
You will learn to increase employee motivation and trust, improve relationships, increase productivity, retain talent, overcome barriers like implicit bias, and apply best practices to remove barriers to inclusivity and psychological safety.
What lessons are included?
Lessons include Introduction, Acknowledging Diversity, Creating Inclusiveness, Identifying Unsafe Processes and Practices, Promoting Participatory Culture, Developing Strategy and Initiatives, and Test Your Knowledge.
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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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