Companies are facing significant challenges when it comes to DEI Initiatives. For leaders, the pressure internally within the organization and externally from the community can be exhausting. This laundry list of challenges includes Organizational blind spots, DEI seen as essential but not urgent–until it becomes a crisis, limited budget, and inexperienced staff. On top of this, how do you get started and ensure little resistance from employees with DEI change efforts?
Illinois-based corporate training and development company, Leadership Surge, has launched a new mobile platform that offers a unique approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training for employees and leaders. The platform focuses on building stronger teams and creating environments of belonging instead of differences. It steers from theory and provides practical tools for building a solid team and fixing teams when they break. Due to their remote work environments and cultural challenges, the company has a particular focus on the construction and subcontracting trade industries. The new training platform is designed to help all organizations build diverse and inclusive teams and promote a workplace culture of belonging and respect.
The DEI mobile platform is an innovative product that offers a cost-effective, efficient, and scalable solution to organizations looking to integrate DEI principles into their daily operations. Unlike traditional live training, which can be costly and disruptive to productivity, the DEI platform delivers short, bite-sized training segments that teams can complete independently. The platform includes a 30-minute initial training module, followed by four weeks of drip training with 5 to 15-minute lessons that ensure team members easily absorb and implement lessons. Training incorporates actual scenarios that participants must work through to practice their learning skills.
The diversity, equity, and inclusion training starts by challenging participants to broaden their definition of diversity to understand that it includes all people. Regardless of ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or difference, the product's ultimate goal is belonging and understanding the importance of creating a belonging environment. It emphasizes the need for inclusive behavior and challenges biases through experiential activities and practice scenarios that allow participants to discover their blindspots regarding belonging. The company teaches leaders to slow down, ask more questions, and doubt assumptions, and also teaches them how to speak up when they see something wrong, creating a respectful and trusting environment. Overall, the training aims to help leaders understand the power of diversity and inclusion and how to create a welcoming environment for all individuals.
"Our product is designed to help individuals and teams understand emotional intelligence from a diverse perspective, have self-awareness and group awareness, and learn how to manage yourself and relationships in the workplace. The goal is to create a culture of belonging and respect, where everyone feels valued and heard", Alexander Willis, the CEO of Leadership Surge.
The DEI mobile platform is the first of its kind, and Leadership Surge is proud to be at the forefront of this innovative approach to DEI training. The product will be launched in the United States and Canada in Quarter two of 2023.
Leadership Surge has delivered high-energy, highly effective services and programs that positively impact workplace culture for many years. From frontline leadership training focused on effective communication, problem-solving, and conflict-resolution skills to developing awareness, understanding, and proficiencies in diversity, equity, and inclusion, the Leadership Surge team works with organizations to take their leadership to the next level.
As experienced workers continue to retire, supervisors must be more hands-on with new hires, invest more time to ensure employees understand their assignments and look for ways to train and coach their team. This requires a vast understanding of diversity from every angle, age, thought, personality style, ethnicity, sexuality, and learning style, to name a few. Senior leaders and owners must prepare for this to have a successful tomorrow.
About Leadership Surge
Leadership Surge is a leading corporate training and development company focusing on the construction and subcontracting trade industries. The company delivers high-energy, highly effective services and programs that positively impact workplace culture, including personal leadership, communication, leading effective teams, time management and goal setting, critical thinking and decision making, and customer service. For more information, contact Leadership Surge for a consultation.
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Name: Alex Willis
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