Ep. 25 Building the Emerging Economy on a Diversity and Inclusion Platform

01/24/20 • 59 min

The Forum on Workplace Inclusion Podcast

In this episode of The Forum Podcast, Joel Hodroff and Thomas Fisher (University of Minnesota), explore opportunities for the rising DEI movement within business and community organizations to transform disparities and disempowerment at their economic roots.

Modern society is operating at a fraction of our potential. No one is to blame, because we all inherited the current system based upon scarcity, win-lose competition over money, and a grow-or-die business imperative. Too many people are left out of our economy, today, with their talent and capacities unrecognized and under-utilized.

This is a historic opportunity for the rising DEI movement within business and community organizations to transform disparities and disempowerment at their economic roots. This new approach empowers frontline DEI practitioners with systemic solutions and new financial tools and resources.

Learning Outcomes

Learn how to mobilize untapped business-community wealth and productive capacity
Learn social entrepreneurial design principles that drive cooperation rather than competition
Learn why blame is the enemy of creative solutions and how to break the left-versus-right economic stalemate

Learning Outcomes

Learn how to mobilize untapped business-community wealth and productive capacity
Learn social entrepreneurial design principles that drive cooperation rather than competition
Learn why blame is the enemy of creative solutions and how to break the left-versus-right economic stalemate

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Ep. 24 Increase Success in High Stakes Conversations

In this episode of The Forum Podcast, Kristen Stockton, Vice President, Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Advisor of JASKAP Consulting explores how to influence anyone, employees, investors, customers, and your colleagues to get phenomenal results in ways that actually strengthen relationships.

If you and your team were as influential as you wanted to be, what would be possible? This podcast will support leaders with 8.5 principles of influence and 7 steps to a greater conversation. Listeners will discover how to influence anyone, employees, investors, customers, and your colleagues to get phenomenal results in ways that actually strengthen relationships. Influence is key to leadership, and yet one of the most misunderstood skills. Influence is what sets top leaders apart from the rest, unfortunately even at the top levels of an organization, many leaders struggle with how to really influence others. Develop the skill for career success and serious performance gains. Many leaders want to just jump into initiatives and rush into high-stakes meetings using their default communication/influence style without knowing that different approaches work better in different situations, or they don’t have a clear outcome in mind. Don’t be that leader. Today we will highlight model for achieving maximum results in your high-stakes meetings.

Learning Outcomes

Understand influence as a leadership competency
Examine several high stakes situations and discuss effective approaches
Learn a model for planning and preparing for one-to-one influencing conversations

Resources

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Ep. 26 Engaging Men & Leaders in Gender Balance

In this episode of The Forum Podcast, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox (20-first), argues that women alone should not be leading the topic of gender balance in organizations. But how do we engage men and leaders in gender balancing businesses when the topic of gender balance is often framed as being created for women by women, leading to failed engagement by men and accountability by men, or even worse, creating divisive segmentation within men of a, “you’re either with us or against us” mentality?

Engaging men isn’t about getting women to become ever more congratulatory about men who ‘get it.’ Getting men to embrace balance requires leaders skilled at making the link between balance and business. When they buy it, and are skilled at selling it, everyone gets on board.

Over the past decade, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, CEO of 20-first, has worked on gender balance with 43 companies, across 32 countries, facilitated 231 debates with over 3,000 executives. She’s worked in every possible sector, from finance and energy to tech and consumer goods. Here’s what she learned and some of the questions she’ll explore:

Why is gender balance so often framed as a women’s issue, discussed by and among women?
How do we engage men and leaders in gender balancing businesses?
Where do companies stand today and what’s the next step?

Learning Outcomes