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Rutgers Cancer Institute’s Office of DEI has formed a partnership with Rutgers Office of Continuing Professional Education to provide DEI trainings for affiliated workforce, including faculty, staff, trainees, and medical students.
DEI Training Catalog
- Building A Diverse Workplace: Attracting and Hiring or Developing, Engaging and Retaining- Hiring the best talent requires decreasing bias that can unconsciously overlook some individuals, inflate others and interfere with efforts to increase diversity. Then when hired, employees must feel welcomed, valued, and connected to others. The key is to cultivate a culture of diversity, inclusion and equity to build and retain engaged staff.
- Collaborative Leadership - Inclusive leaders understand that, for collaboration to be successful, team members must first be willing to share their perspectives. In this session, leaders will learn how to empower others, pay attention to diversity of thinking and psychological safety, and focus on team cohesion.
- Communicating in a Diverse Environment - One of the biggest blocks to intercultural communication occurs when our unconscious biases get in the way of healthy interactions with others. The tools introduced in this workshop will expand your cultural perspective and create a collaborative environment.
- Cultural Competency - Fostering cultural competence, and alignment with mission, vision, and values will build strength and clarity. We will spotlight levels of cultural understanding and expand on identified definitions of culture.
- Current Business Challenges through the Lens of DEI - Issues of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion have never been more crucial to companies, their employees, and society. We'll identify the challenges and opportunities for increasing diversity and inclusion in the new workplace and into the future.
- Diversity Awareness - An introduction to identifying one's cultural lens, becoming aware of unconscious bias, practicing cultural sensitivity, and building towards cross-cultural fluency, This course will provide an interactive space to increase awareness of difference, expand the definition of diversity, and explore the distinctions between affirmative action, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Employee Resource Groups that Engage and Add Value - If you've ever enjoyed lime or chili flavored snack chips, you have an Employee Resource Group to thank. This program introduces you to: what Affinity, Employee Resource, and Business Resource Groups are; how ERG's can increase employee engagement; the crucial role of executives; best practices organizing and establishing ERGs; how can ERGs provide a resource as a valued resource to achieving business goals; and more.
- Inclusivity for the Workplace – Inclusive organizations are committed to diversity, inclusion and allyship because they believe in their positive impact. This workshop examines how organizations articulate authentic commitment to diversity, hold others accountable, and make diversity and inclusion a priority.
- Intercultural Communications - Intercultural Communication explores how culture shapes language, thought, andbehavior in the workplace. Topics include the effect of cultural differences on communication styles, personal identities, andvarious organizational contexts.
- Leadership for an Inclusive Culture - Direct supervisors and managers have the biggest impact on their employees' experience. By creating a culture of inclusiveness and high engagement, employees are most likely to stay and do their best work, and the organization can activate the potential advantages of a diverse workforce.
- Leading with Courage - Inclusive leaders speak up and challenge the status quo, and they are honest and humble about their own strengths and weaknesses. They are modest about capabilities, admit mistakes, and create the space for others to contribute.
- LGBTQIA+ Inclusion - Discover the history of the LGBTQIA+ community, including their struggles and victories, and uncover the diverse identities within the LGBTQIA+ spectrum. Through these insights, we will examine the power of allyship as we discuss creating inclusive and supportive environments.
- Little Things DO Make a Difference - Most of us are astute enough to avoid, and organizations prohibit, direct discriminatory actions and behaviors. Instead, it is the seemingly small comments, actions, unconscious body language, and inactions that prevent organizations from experiencing the benefits of a diverse workforce.
- Multigenerational Intelligence - For the first time in US history, there are currently 5 generations in the workplace. Learning how to foster generational harmony is essential to employee retention and building an engaged workforce.
- Navigating the Racial Disparities within HealthCare - This session discusses the past, current and future lenses of health disparities as a result of race. We will discuss strategic ways to reduce preferential treatment and ways to challenge our own prejudices.
- Removing Bias from Feedback - This workshop is designed to create awareness on common bias in feedback and how that creates disparity in performance evaluations and career progression. We will explore ways to address bias to create clear evaluation practices and provide actionable improvement goals.
- Respectful Workplace Communication - In this workshop we will start by identifying the differences between respectful and disrespectful communication, which will help you increase understanding of the impact disrespectful communication has on you, your work, and others you work with. We also identify your responsibility in maintaining a respectful workplace.
- Unconscious Bias - This course will expose participants to their unconscious biases, provide tools to adjust automatic patterns of thinking, and ultimately highlight one's awareness of implicit bias. This will be an in-depth conversation about diversity and exclusion, to avoid discriminatory behaviors and become more knowledgeable about the laws that protect employees in the workplace.
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Don’t see a training you’d like for your team? Please reach out to cinj_dei@cinj.rutgers.edu.