Conceptually, many people agree on the need to be more effective in our personal and professional lives and we can search to find inspiration and motivation. Sustaining and implementing that motivation is more difficult because the "how" is missing or the "how" may be a one-size-fits-all recipe of sorts. The Open Hand Leading and Learning in Action is a framework that provides a context-driven, human-centered approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The framework will engage participants with 3 technical and 2 adaptive points that will finish with individual action plans to move forward in their FFEA journeys. 

Learning Objectives:

1 - Gain an understanding of the framework to help build their capacity, knowledge, and skill.

2 - Better understand some of the challenges of DEI work within their communities and Florida. 

3 - Process their own context-driven personal and professional selves to determine an individual action plan implementing next steps of the framework. 

This training is designed to teach basic principles involving how to understand and manage diversity and bias within the workplace. Participants will discover how the influence of culture, and differences in values, ethics and assumptions has a direct impact on effective communication. In addition, participants will also learn how to understand the importance of diversity and how it can be used as an advantage to facilitate positive intergroup interaction, reduce prejudice and discrimination by creating an environment of inclusive positivity within the workplace.

Learning Objectives:

1 - Identify and discuss the origin of implicit bias.

2 - Uncover and discuss our own bias and how that can impact communication. 

3 - Learn best practices in how to manage our own bias to effectively communicate.