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Faculty and Staff Managers and Leaders New Hires Inclusive Excellence Tools and Resources

Faculty and Staff

Develop an understanding of the historical context and definition of intersectionality.
Identify and explore how your own intersecting identities shape your professional practice.
Be able to implement strategies to build more inclusive learning environments that help your students and colleagues thrive.

Crafting your talk: a roadmap for your audience
Designing your delivery: voice, body language, and artifacts
Considering your setting: in-person and virtual environments

Introduction: Purpose, Concepts, and Terms
Preparing for Difficult Conversations
Having the Conversation
Post-Conflict Strategies and Other Considerations

How to know when to say no, and how navigate those conversations
How to manage extra service work and work with students
How to set boundaries within your career path
How to feel more fulfilled while doing less work

Identify and focus on your purpose and top priorities in order to move towards greater effectiveness
Define goals that drive you toward achieving your purpose without overwhelming you
Create and manage a schedule that allows you to accomplish your most important work first
Protect your schedule and stay accountable to your top priorities when distractions and derailments inevitably arise

Through Daniel Goleman’s four pillars of emotional intelligence, you will get ideas for how to:

Manage graduate students, research teams, or labs more effectively
Handle conflict and difficult personalities with more ease
Mentor and manage graduate students

Identify the different types of feedback needed in the workplace
Explain a simple process for giving and receiving feedback in the moment
Help you connect feedback back to performance expectations
Model how to use effective communication steps and techniques

Managers and Leaders

Know how culture shows up in your workplace and day-to-day interactions
Learn why it’s so important to pay attention to and continue to learn about culture
Understand how to incorporate forward-thinking actions into your leadership practice

Recognizing how psychological safety impacts team performance, learning, satisfaction, and engagement.
Establishing shared expectations and meaning
Creating participation that welcomes all voices
Responding productively to foster learning

Improve and sustain a healthy working environment
Build rapport among colleagues
Increase faculty and staff morale

Identify the different types of feedback needed in the workplace
Explain a simple process for giving and receiving feedback in the moment
Help you connect feedback back to performance expectations
Model how to use effective communication steps and techniques

Section 1: Assess Your Productivity
Section 2: Build a Purposeful Schedule

Creating a vision framework for your team
Performance management strategies
How to navigate conflict in a productive way
Effective coaching techniques to help you develop your direct reports

A Guide to Inclusive Leadership

Inclusive Excellence

Suspend judgement and be curious about other people’s perspectives and backgrounds
Ask questions to aid you in reflection about your own beliefs and behaviors
Interpret your interactions with others
Explore barriers that might perpetuate your assumptions about others and prevent you from developing this practice

Define implicit bias and understand the research behind implicit bias
Understand how implicit bias shows up in the context of higher education
Hear examples of implicit bias
Learn how to respond to someone’s implicit bias
Identify multiple techniques to increase awareness and interpret your own implicit biases

Define race and white privilege
Reflect upon your own identities as they relate to race and white privilege
Identify strategies to recognize and confront white privilege in yourself, others, and systems and structures within higher education

Define SES/Class and intersectionality
Understand SES/Class in the context of higher education
Understand implications for not considering SES/Class in your work
Debunk myths about SES/Class
Shift your thinking about SES/Class
Reflect on your own SES/Class identities

Understand where your social and political position of power comes from and how it can influence your leadership in productive and counterproductive ways
Align the values of different groups across the organization and operate as a truly inclusive leader
Explore how your social identities–including age, gender, race, sexual orientation, and others–shape your position of power or privilege as an inclusive leader

Define key concepts related to LGBTQ+ communities like sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression
Identify common barriers in higher education for LGBTQ+ students
Implement recommended practices to foster an intentionally LGBTQ+ inclusive environment
Reflect upon your own identities as they relate to gender and sexuality

Define ableism and learn specific ways to interrupt your own assumptions, biases, and beliefs about persons with disabilities
Become more aware of your language that can be hurtful or insensitive and exclude or target students with disabilities
Understand and name the disparities often faced by persons with disabilities
Identify and learn specific ways to be an effective advocate/ally for persons with disabilities.

Define allyship and understand what it is and what it is not
Reflect on considerations for becoming an ally
Understand common mistakes made by allies
Reflect on your own social identities to become an ally for others

Develop an understanding of the historical context and definition of intersectionality
Identify and explore how your own intersecting identities shape your professional practice
Be able to implement strategies to build more inclusive learning environments that help your students and colleagues thrive