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Inclusion and Education Training

Challenge

Given our presence across over 100 facilities globally, we understand, respect and embrace our many differences. We heavily rely on our unique perspectives, capabilities, innovation, and excellent science to change the world and improve the quality of people’s lives around the world. This can only be achieved through diversity and inclusion. While there are many miles that separate some of our global sites geographically, we must want to ensure that any physical distance does not impede on our ability to continue building awareness, understanding, and belonging within our organization through every level, starting with senior leadership. As we continue to embark on our diversity, equity and inclusion journey, we wanted to start with our senior leaders to ensure that they could mitigate their own biases and create an inclusive work environment for all resulting in employees bringing their “true” selves to work.

Actions

We piloted a seven-week learning journey for our CEO and 67 senior executives in 2020 to expand their awareness and understanding of unconscious biases, address power and privilege and build skills to lead inclusive teams.  As a result of the constructive feedback generated from the initial pilot, we redesigned some of the content and shortened the course to three (3) consecutive weekly 2-hour sessions and expanded the training out to 400 global people leaders and human resources professionals to enable them to embed greater inclusion behaviors and awareness on their teams. Additionally, we embedded more sustainability into the course by creating detailed action plans, manager discussion guides, follow-up nudges, and monthly engaging Cohort Connection calls to ensure that managers can continue the dialogue by asking questions, applying what they learned so they can continue to leverage one another's insights and share new successes and continue to address challenges.

Outcomes

As we continue to embark on our diversity, equity, and inclusion journey, we wanted to start with our senior leaders to ensure that they could mitigate their own biases and create an inclusive work environment for all resulting in employees bringing their “true” selves to work.

 

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