Encouraging Sincere and Inclusive Workplace Atmosphere via Tailored Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Training
Creating an Inclusive Workplace: Clarkston's Custom DEI Training
In a bid to foster a more inclusive and authentic work environment, a client, renowned for its creativity and collaboration, partnered with Clarkston to deliver a tailored DEI training program. The client's goal was to embed DEI principles into everyday interactions and leadership practices, going beyond mere compliance.
The training, titled "Authenticity in Action: Navigating DEI in Today's Workplace," was a collaborative effort between Clarkston and the client's executive leadership team. It aimed to strengthen employees' personal authenticity, equip them with practical tools for navigating challenging conversations, and create a more inclusive environment.
To ensure the learning experience reflected the client's culture and objectives, a pre-brief alignment session was facilitated by Clarkston. The seminar emphasized the importance of embracing authenticity and vulnerability at work, fostering a culture of psychological safety in today's DEI workplace climate.
Seminar participants received pre-work and communications to help set the tone for an engaging and thoughtful session. The 90-minute live seminar combined storytelling, discussion, and personal skill development.
The client sought a partner who could provide an experience beyond traditional DEI compliance training, focusing on skill-building, practical frameworks, and fostering a culture of trust and openness with empathy at the forefront. Clarkston adapted the seminar to meet the client's specific needs.
Following the seminar, Clarkston hosted a leadership debrief to share insights and recommend strategies for sustaining DEI momentum within the organization. The client was able to deepen employees' sense of authenticity and lay the foundation for advancing inclusion and psychological safety throughout their company's culture and leadership practices.
Best practices for creating an inclusive workplace through custom DEI training focused on authenticity and psychological safety include thorough DEI assessments, customized training that emphasizes authenticity and psychological safety, empowering leaders and managers, promoting authentic inclusion, embedding DEI values into policies and daily practices, supporting cultural authenticity, and measuring progress through data and employee feedback.
By combining customized, practical education with leadership commitment, inclusive policies, open communication, and shared ownership, Clarkston's DEI training aims to create a workplace where all employees feel genuinely valued, heard, and safe to be themselves.
- To sustain DEI momentum within the organization, Clarkston recommended strategies that focus on embedding DEI values into everyday leadership practices.
- The client, looking for a partner to provide an experience beyond traditional DEI compliance training, found in Clarkston a consultant with a focus on skill-building, practical frameworks, and fostering a culture of trust and openness.
- The custom DEI training, titled "Authenticity in Action," aimed to create a more inclusive workplace by developing employees' personal authenticity and equipping them with practical tools for navigating challenging conversations.
- In addition to fostering authenticity, the training strived to support cultural authenticity and lay the foundation for advancing health-and-wellness, workplace-wellness, diversity-and-inclusion, and science in the client's business and finance practices.
