Leverage Diversity and Inclusion for Organizational Excellence

Leverage Diversity and Inclusion for Organizational Excellence will teach you to increase your talent pool, encourage diverse perspectives to drive individual and team performance, and eliminate impediments to create an inclusive workplace where employees feel that their endeavors are valued.

This self-paced,

gives you same day access to proprietary Stanford GSB research-based content.

Corporations, nonprofits, and public sector organizations are increasingly being called upon to increase diversity. And for good reason. The relationships between diversity and innovation and diversity and performance have been documented extensively in the literature. Research shows that diversity is linked to innovation and performance because it broadens the talent pool, discourages stereotypes, reduces overconfidence, and allows us to take advantage of complementaries between different perspectives and skills.

However, without building a sense of inclusion and belonging, organizations will have a difficult time maximizing the potential of diversity. Building a culture of inclusion is important because to fully take advantage of different perspectives and skills, we must make sure that everyone feels comfortable sharing their perspectives and offering up their skills.

In this course, we will explore the barriers and potential solutions to creating and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workforce using a combination of pedagogical tools including (but not limited to) participant-organizational observations and explorations, case analyses, and self-reflection.

Key Topics

Unconsciousimplicitnonconscious bias

Benefits and challenges of diverse teams

Hiring: Biases, barriers, and solutions

Inclusive Workplaces: Biases, barriers, and solutions

Performance Evaluation: Biases, barriers, and solutions

Learning Outcomes

Understand why diversity in organizations and teams matters

Understand individual- and organizational-level barriers to creating diverse organizations and teams

Explore some existing solutions that have mitigated these barriers

Use a process to come up with and enact your own solutions that are unique to your organization and your situation

This course is offered in four modules and each module extends beyond theory and enables you to put your learnings directly into practice for real-time results. Videos, case studies, simulations, and personal feedback on select assignments will enhance your understanding of course concepts.

Once you pay, you will unlock course material for 60 days and can save select materials for future reference.

Improve group and team performance by expanding the talent pool and leveraging different perspectives and skillsets.

Foster a culture of inclusion where employees feel respected and their perspectives and contributions valued.

Examine potential barriers to both diversity and inclusion and design solutions to overcome those obstacles.

Distinguish cultural myths from credible research in order to design and implement solutions that create diversity in the workplace and increase organizational performance.