Course Overview
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This course introduces tools and best practices for effectively planning and executing diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ) change in teams and organizations.
Assuming introductory-level awareness of the relationship between social identities and people’s workplace experiences, this course will:
- Identify underlying premises associated with different conceptions of DEIJ work, and the implications of these different conceptions on the way the work is received and experienced by the team members.
- Understand how to conceive and execute organizational strategies and DEIJ initiatives as an integrated sets of projects and behaviors rather than one-off and disconnected interventions.
- Conduct analyses to understand the role of power, power distribution, relations, and the role of power in relationships in organizations, and how to use these analyses to anticipate and mitigate DEIJ resistance.
- Understand how DEIJ efforts interact with local cultural norms and values in multi-national and cross-cultural settings, and how to develop and implement DEIJ strategies in these contexts.
Course Schedule
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Who Should Attend
- DEIJ practitioners or leaders who are interested in being champions for meaningful DEIJ change in their organizations.
- Mid to senior-level leaders who aim to strengthen their skills as inclusive change management leaders.
Questions Will We Answer
- How do I establish a sense of urgency around the need to address DEIJ challenges in an organization in the context of resistance and backlash to DEIJ work?
- How do I create a DEIJ strategic framework for organizational change?
- How do I assess the current state of the organization and its key stakeholders around DEIJ strategies?
Benefits and Outcomes
By participating in this session, you will learn to:
- Plan and execute organizational change initiatives that take into consideration individual identities, cultural norms, and organization contexts.
- Apply frameworks to design and guide equitable and inclusive organizational change processes.
- Diagnose the potential change impact, including potential risks and leverage points, by understanding the challenges associated with DEIJ work.
- Select criteria for assessing change and measuring progress.
- Oversee the change process as a “change agent” or change leader.
Earn Continuing Education Credit
- ELOC is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP. This program is valid for 11 PDCs for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP.
- ELOC is accredited by IACET giving students the opportunity to earn CEUs. This program is valid for 1.1 IACET CEUs.
Program Content
This course leverages change models to provide participants with a framework for how to implement DEIJ work in their organizations.
- We begin by helping students learn how to get a meaningful current pulse around where your organizations are in making progress on DEIJ.
- We then focus on how you can establish a sense of urgency around the need to adopt a more robust DEIJ philosophy and set of behaviors.
- Next, we then help you assess your critical stakeholders and think through approaches to engage them while anticipating and combatting resistance.
- Finally, our focus shifts to helping you solidify your vision for change and end up with concrete behaviors to bring this vision to life.
FAQs
Is this course for internal change leaders, external consultants, or both?
- Both! This course will support you in leading change for equity and inclusion whether you are working inside your employer organization or as a third-party consulting partner to an organizational client.
Is this course appropriate for members of groups or teams from the same organization to attend together?
- Yes! We have delivered a version of this course to groups of professionals from the same organization and they have found it useful both for individual leadership development and in developing shared language and understanding for use in their work together.
If you are interested in a group discount or designing a custom, private session for your organization, please email us at eloc@northwestern.edu.
Is this course for professionals working in all sectors?
- Yes! This course is relevant to mid to senior-level leaders across sectors, industries, and roles.
Is this course only for DEIJ practitioners?
- No! This course is for any leader who aims to support and advance equitable and inclusive organizational change.
Is this course only for change management professionals?
- No! This course is for any leader who is or will be involved in, managing, or advising on organizational change at the team, department, division, organization, enterprise, and/or system level.
