Leveraging Employee Resource Groups to Drive Cultural Transformation and Business Results
Leveraging Employee Resource Groups to Build New Organizational Capabilities
Ninety percent of all businesses have employee resource groups. Yet most organizations have not realized the full benefits of these groups; and in many cases these groups have become silos. In addition, few companies have a group that represents the dominant culture of the organization, white men. Employee resource groups of all kinds, if developed and optimized, can contribute in a very strategic way to the organization's ability to experience success, including product development, recruiting/retention strategies, marketing, talent development, and cultural transformation.
This program has been designed to promote a highly interactive and candid exchange about the impact that the group can have upon the organization's ability to create an environment where all employees can thrive. The experiential learning components of this program are designed to build new leadership capabilities in these change agents. Leaders of employee resource groups need to be equipped to "be the change that they wish to see." The time has come to touch the truth about why people can't get along in the work environment and develop meaningful solutions to overcome this challenge.
As part of this session, participants will…
- Learn new capabilities to enhance the development of authentic and productive working relationships in the workplace.
- Achieve a personal breakthrough on paradigms, beliefs, and stereotypes.
- Be able to overcome barriers for learning how to connect across differences.
- Be able to serve as agents of change to drive new ways to engage employees, build innovative services for the consumer, and encouraging cultural transformation.
- Be able to serve as a more inspiring, courageous, and impactful leader.
- Be able to build authentic and empowered relationships in the workplace.
Format
The ideal timeframe for this program is 1.5 days. The program will focus on the following key modules:
- IDI (Intercultural Development Inventory) assessment review
- Dominant and subordinate group dynamics/unconscious bias in the workplace
- Connecting across differences–experiential learning
- Engaging in courageous conversations about the journey
- Building authentic and empowered partnerships to influence the organization
- Employee resource groups and organizational effectiveness: this module will focus on the participants assessing a real challenge that the organization faces and developing a meaningful strategy to overcome the challenge
- New capabilities that promote appreciative listening, decision making, and action that enforces new standards of engagement across cultures
- Personal action plan development to support continued learning
Pre-program Activities
All participants must complete the IDI (Intercultural Development Inventory). This tool is used to help participants understand what it means to engage in a way that allows them to respect, value, and understand cultural nuances that are different from their own.
Post-program Support
Executive coaching is available to support the continued development of participants (ask for more details).
Contact us for more detail: The Center for Workforce Excellence-972-899-3677