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MicroInequities: The Power of Small™

Insight Education’s flagship product, MicroInequities: The Power of Small™, gets to the DNA of culture change and is the new paradigm for diversity. This program effects major changes in the cultural landscape of organizational diversity by addressing the small, yet powerful, biases communicated in the workplace. It focuses on one of the most hidden barriers to success; the subtle, usually subconscious messages we all send that can devalue, discourage and ultimately impair performance in the workplace at all levels of an organization.

This innovative seminar develops a new set of skills focused on the ways we send messages within businesses and across borders. It reveals the effects of micromessages in the workplace and delivers critical concepts and skills that carry over instantly when participants return to the workplace.

Specifically, participants can expect to:

• Identify micromessages received and master messages sent to drive rapid behavior change within the workplace.
• Incorporate this skill into the realm of routine management, improving the quality and productivity of daily interactions with colleagues.
• Measurably raise business diversity performance.
• Return to work with a new lexicon that promotes inclusion and open communication.

MicroInequities: The Power of Small™
Part 2—Sustaining the Impact

Overview

Participants of the MicroInequities: The Power of Small™ seminar leave the experience with a new understanding of the influence subtle messages have on the performance of others. The material covered, however, is broad and much of the impact remains in the awareness and Level 1 stage of application.

MicroInequities: Sustaining the Impact – Part 2 takes participants from awareness to active application of the program’s skills. In this session, participants learn an in-depth application of the tools and how to apply them for long-term use. 

Some examples include; instructing managers to incorporate micromessaging in the ways they do coaching, provide feedback and write performance appraisals. MicroInequities Part 2 also covers the way in which the concepts are applied in team meetings and goal setting.

The session incorporates analysis of case study scenarios. In addition, participants bring real life situations and are guided through hands-on practice for meaningful practical progress. The result is that participants master the essential three pillars of micro-messages; awareness, skill and application.

Course Outline

1. Review Principles of Micromessaging       
   This segment provides a brief “refresher” of the basic concepts and their effect on leadership presented in MicroInequities: The Power of Small™, Part I.
2. Debriefing On-the-Job Experiences          
         During this segment participants share their personal experiences as they have worked to implement the principles of Micromessaging in their own organizations.
3. Team Meeting Video: Taking it to the Second Level
   Participants revisit the Team Meeting video used in Part I…only this time they see the characters justifying their behaviors depicted in the original video.
4. Identifying the unique MicroInequities that pertain specifically to your company
   During this segment participants identify the MicroInequities that are typical both of their wider organizations and their own particular work team. They then work together to brainstorm solutions that they can take back to the workplace.
5. Tools for Action
   This segment takes a deeper look at specific tools participants can use to apply the core concepts and skills explored in MicroInequities program. It explores immediate actions participants can take to directly apply these skills in the workplace.  Tools include;
   Prescriptive Actions   
   Top 10 MicroAdvantages
   T/A/L/K Model
   Three 3’s
   Rules of Engagement
6. Developing a Personal Action Plan
   This segment allows participants to focus on a specific problem and strategize ways to deal with it. Each participant identifies one problem relationship in their workplace and with the help of other team members develops a detailed plan for resolving that particular situation

Executive Consulting Services

Stephen Young is recognized as a foremost expert in organizational leadership and diversity. For more than a decade, he has been a featured speaker at major business events and sought after for his powerful and engaging presentation style.

As a recognized leader in the field of organizational leadership and diversity, Mr. Young frequently consults with senior executives and management teams of numerous Fortune 500 companies. Services Include:

• Leadership & Executive Coaching
• Development of Corporate Diversity Strategies
• Conflict Resolution
• Performance Management

Reverse Mentoring

Reverse Mentoring reverses the roles of the traditional mentoring model—here Senior Leaders become the Protégés and Middle Managers, the Mentors. In this unique model, each participant becomes one half of a dynamic partnership that allows him or her to learn about and respond to the perceptions and challenges that a diverse workforce faces, both personally and professionally.

Reverse mentoring is a program designed to strengthen the underlying pillars that sustain growth in diversity within a company, by cultivating meaningful connections and relationships between people at significantly different levels of an organization.

"Zero-Sum" Game

This program addresses the illusion of making great strides in corporate hiring on the front end, while the back door of employee turnover is left highly exposed. Insight Education Systems demonstrates how to shift gains into the plus column by presenting the most successful efforts used by award-winning organizations to develop and sustain a diverse workforce.

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