Catalyst research has identified managers as the drivers of an employee’s experience of inclusion—a necessary element for the success of a diverse team. Inclusion starts with learning, listening, and allyship. Anyone can be an ally and managers can model that behavior on their team when they know how.

In this 30-minute Knowledge Burst, you will:

• Learn the benefits of allyship to your team, your organization, and yourself.
• Explore the role of curiosity and allyship in building inclusion on your team.
• Understand actions to take to be an ally to an individual and an advocate to a group.

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The growing consensus among leading organizations is that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) provide opportunities that can lead to business success. Busy people managers will not only learn the benefits of DEI in this Knowledge Burst but also start to build competencies to manage their own diverse teams and grow their leadership skills more effectively.

In this 15-minute Knowledge Burst, you will learn:

• Why diversity, equity, and inclusion matter
• The differences between equity and equality
• The myth of meritocracy
• Curiosity: A first step for inclusive leadership

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Diversity is a reality of our workplaces today. We all bring our life experiences and backgrounds to our organizations, teams, and interpersonal interactions. Managers everywhere are realizing they have knowledge gaps about race and racism and skill gaps in how to connect and collaborate across differences. This introduction to race and racism through quality, curated resources will help managers remedy those gaps.

While exploring this Knowledge Burst at your own pace, you will learn:

• What race and racism are and how they impact people and society.
• The history of racism and Indigenous Peoples.
• About headwinds, tailwinds, and fairness.
• What emotional tax is and why it matters to you as a manager.

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Across industries, organizations are working to increase the diversity of their talent. But even as C-suite leaders increase their commitment to DEI initiatives, many organizations are finding that progress is stalled or hard to sustain. Knowledge Bursts focus on people managers—training, motivating, and empowering them with skills to be change agents for diversity and inclusion.

In this short overview of Knowledge Bursts, a powerful DEI e-learning tool exclusively focused on people managers, you will:

• Learn how Knowledge Bursts can support your DEI strategy.
• See how Knowledge Bursts can upskill people managers to be agents of change.
• Learn about our LMS integration option for Catalyst Supporter organizations.

This content is available to all audiences.

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In this 10-minute Knowledge Burst, you will learn sponsorship skills that benefit your organization’s talent pipeline and will help build your own inclusive leadership skills. You will learn:

• What is sponsorship?
• How sponsorship accelerates careers of women, particularly those who belong to marginalized racial or ethnic groups.
• Important sponsorship skills you can start using today.

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In this 10-minute Knowledge Burst, you will:

• Recognize what empathy is and how it differs from sympathy and compassion.
• Understand the business benefits of empathy.
• Follow real-life scenarios to help you put empathy into practice in your workplace.

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In this Knowledge Burst, you will learn easy-to-use tactics to interrupt or stop racial and ethnic microaggressions at work, no matter your role in the organization. Bystander intervention is a straightforward way to make a difference. By the end of this Knowledge Burst, you will feel empowered to help steer your organization toward a more equitable and inclusive culture.

In this 10-minute Knowledge Burst you will:

• Learn to recognize microaggressions and opportunities where you can make a difference by intervening as a bystander.
• Learn different tactics to intervene that you can call on depending on the situation.
• Get a chance to practice different bystander intervention skills.

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Traditionally, we have been taught that talking about aspects of our identity (e.g., race, ethnicity, or gender) in the workplace is taboo. But we need to start talking to achieve workplace inclusion and make those connections across differences. To do this successfully, we must acknowledge—and work through—conversation roadblocks that prevent us from engaging with those around us.

In today’s workplaces, developing authentic relationships, fostering collaboration, and constructively resolving conflict can all help individuals share ideas, different viewpoints, and “outsider” perspectives that can lead to complex discussions that will benefit your business.

In this 10-minute Knowledge Burst you will learn:

• To identify common roadblocks to starting conversations across race, ethnicity, and gender.
• Simple skills to overcome these roadblocks.

We recommend taking Connecting Across Differences and/or So You Want to Learn about Race & Racism—two other Knowledge Bursts—prior to this course, either through Catalyst or through your Learning Management System.

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Diversity is a reality of our workplaces today. We all bring our life experiences and backgrounds to our organizations, teams, and interpersonal interactions. Managers everywhere are realizing they have knowledge gaps about race and racism and skill gaps in how to connect and collaborate across differences. This introduction to race and racism through quality, curated resources will help managers remedy those gaps.

While exploring this Knowledge Burst at your own pace, you will learn:

• What race and racism are and how they impact people and society.
• What Emotional Tax is and why it matters to you as a people manager.
• What privilege is and how to recognize it.

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Managed well, diversity brings many benefits to organizations. But companies can’t expect that people from diverse backgrounds and different experiences will automatically collaborate, connect, resolve conflicts, or innovate as a cohesive unit. Inclusion is the secret ingredient that will help your team succeed. Learn the competencies of building an inclusive culture where connecting across differences is the norm.

In this 10-minute Knowledge Burst you will learn:

• How leading inward can help employees feel valued, trusted, psychologically safe, and allow them to bring their best selves to work.
• How exclusion can harm your team member’s ability to solve problems, stay engaged, and intent to stay.
• How to begin to connect across difference using dialogue and active listening with tips for how to keep the conversation going.

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