Inclusion, Diversity & Equity Plus

We help people grow

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 How do you win the hearts and minds of your people? How do you know when to give feedback versus when to coach? One thing that has not changed is people want to be developed.  Learning Path, LLC has amazing custom and off the shelf content. Virtual, elearning, blended and face to face learning. Some call us the "Course Whispers." Our training is self-directed, collaborative, and experiential grounded in adult learning principles.   We help you build the critical leadership skills and organizational capability needed for success in our rapidly changing workplace.  

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Inclusion, Antiracism, Diversity, Allyship, Communication, Leadership Development

Learning Path, LLC: Global Solutions

Providing Leadership Development to a Global Market

We’re Learning Path, LLC, and we’re here to help your business grow. Since our founding in 2005, we’ve guided countless clients to help them achieve their unique business goals. Using our proven end-to-end methods we’ll equip you and your organization with a plan to succeed. You can count on our team to give you the best insights towards your future. Join us today.

Values, Inclusion, Allyship, Diversity

Creating Cultures of Belonging

Inclusion, Diversity, Managing Bias and Allyship Curriculum

Creating Cultures of Belonging

Practicing inclusion means practicing the

behaviors that communicates "You Belong Here." 

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Now more than ever we live, work, play and learn with people who look, think, and have different beliefs than we do.  Diversity is increasing with every generation and our ability to embrace and communicate effectively, across differences, is a skill, and can be learned.  People leaders are on the front line.  Yes, inclusion is everyone’s responsibility, but people leaders carry a greater weight. Research shows an employee’s direct supervisor, is the greatest contributor to an employee’s sense of belonging or exclusion.

Creating Cultures of Belonging

Curriculum

The Creating Cultures of Belonging curriculum is a series of five 3.5 hour workshops delivered in a brain (and body) friendly framework. The courses are spaced every three weeks for maximum practice and integration between classes. Participants will experience research and neuroscience grounded content, learner centric practices, and adult learning methods to engage individually, in paired groups, and small groups, both in and between workshops

Participants will:

• Experience Innerleadership as an anchor to do the work of inclusion

• Practice building empathy muscle

• Learn and practice reflective listening 

• Assess dimensions of diversity and the impact and influence in ones personal and professional lives

• Explore bias and the brain

• Practice recognizing and interrupting bias or exclusion

• Broaden perspective through self-directed education

• Learn to champion inclusion through Allyship

Please attend with a willingness to be stretched, to sit with discomfort, to be vulnerable and authentic. With openness to mindfulness, empathy, curiosity, practice and sharing experiences you will leave this process further along the continuum to becoming an inclusive leader. Better equipped to infuse inclusive behaviors throughout your organization and foster a feeling and culture of belonging. The secret sauce of organizational capability.

Innerleadership

Curriculum Pre-requisite

The work of inclusion begins with you. Hence, Creating Cultures of Belonging (CCOB) begin with Innerleadership. Defined as the ability to observe your thoughts and act with agency, supported by your values and an inner knowing that you will be alright no matter what.

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This course is designed to empower you and help equip you to deal with inner resistance, stress, and the anxiety practicing inclusion, managing bias and learning to be an anti-racist are prone to evoke. Resilience begins within. The design is collaborative, experiential, and skill based. It includes researched based assessments, practice, feedback and individual and group reflection. The learner-centric workshops engage the group before, during, and after the course.

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Learning organizations exist when people engage in continuous learning. We all have a comfort zone, panic zone and a learning zone, which is located between the extremes of comfort and panic. Innerleadership equips participants with tools and strategies to stay in their learning zone.

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Learning Goals

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•Describe Innerleadership and its three Superpowers

•List the skills necessary to practice inclusion

•Identify your cultural context

•Practice using one simple question to practice curiosity and increase self-awareness

•Use mindfulness practices to pause and reflect

•Describe how to use your values as a bridge to understanding across differences

•Use the three superpowers of self-awareness, mindfulness and your values as a foundation to practice inclusion

Diversity & Authenticity, The Power of Differences

Leverage the Power of Differences

Diversity & Authenticity, The Power of Difference, provides a broad definition of diversity; inclusive of everyone. The course helps participants identify and embrace diversity and authenticity as their superpower. The course will help you tap into the superpowers of your team. 

Diversity & Authenticity, The Power of Differences examines diversity, privilege, and diversity dimensions that impact inclusion, access, power, and belonging.

Providing experiential learning methods to identify the value of diversity, and leverage privilege to support inclusion.

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Learning Goals:

• Define diversity and why valuing diversity matters

• Describe what authenticity is an isn’t

• Share what is authentically you

• Identify and address barriers to valuing diversity and authenticity

• Practice reflective listening as a way to build trust and value diversity

• Recognize how education impacts our worldview

• Assess the diversity in our lives and the impact

• Create an action plan to increase your exposure and understanding of different ways of being in the world

Managing Bias

Course Goals

​We all have biases.  It's just part of the human condition. Bias, both conscious and unconscious impacts our behavior and decision making with and without our permission. Managing Bias focuses on learning to recognize and address bias. It does not seek to convince participants that they are bias. Instead, participants experience their own bias.

Learning to manage biases that create exclusion is a skill anyone can learn. It does require the willingness to examine our perspectives and how they were shaped.  To make more of our unconscious, conscious. If you want a more inclusive organization, where people feel included and united around the achievement of shared business goals, where people feel valued and willing to expend their discretionary effort to achieve those goals, this course is for you. 

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Objectives

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• Define bias and implicit bias

• Experience your brain’s propensity for bias

• Recognize the subtle messages of implicit bias

• Practice surfacing bias

• Identify ways to practice self-compassion and manage the guilt, shame and grief that surfaces while making unconscious bias conscious

• Explore some ways implicit bias shows up in the workplace

• Practice 5 strategies to interrupt bias

• Create an action plan to increase your ability to recognize and address bias

Practicing Inclusion

Practice behaviors that communicate you belong and are valued

This workshop provides opportunities for people leaders to consider their own and their direct reports’ experiences feeling included or not. Introduces the C.U.P. conversational model to build the trust needed to create a culture of belonging. Gives participants practice building the skills of empathy, compassion, and

courage. Provides reflection and small group discussion time to identify ways to lean into other’s experiences

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Learning Goals:

• Connect with the feeling of exclusion​​

• Develop your Inclusion Spidey-Sense​​

• Identify your role as an inclusive leader​

• Use a framework for inclusion to notice where your people are at​​

• Identify who needs support and why​​

• Practice having courageous conversations to address situations and interactions that aren’t inclusive​​

• Reflect and take action

Be the Ally

Expand who you help

You can make a difference.  Allyship is an intentional act to include, uplift, and/or advocate for someone from an underrepresented or marginalized group.  This blended solution will equip you to make a difference.

Blended Solutions

Courses developed and delivered by "The Course Whisperers"

We offer micro-learning, eLearning, virtual and live delivery.  We create and deliver custom and off the shelf learning solutions.  Leadership development and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Allyship are our sweet spots.

How to engage in meaningful allyship

Be the Ally is the 5th course in the Creating Cultures of Belonging Leadership Development Series.  It is also a stand alone blended offering.

We are all a little bit racist

Learn how to push past old paradigms of denial and unintentional complicity to actively championing more equitable organizations and communities.