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Unconscious Bias

In 2020, to help nonprofit leaders create inclusive workplaces, Jenkins Consulting Group started providing Disrupting Unconscious Bias in Your Workplace, Words Matter: Using Inclusive Language in Your Workplace, and Meeting Culture Matters: Strengthen Your Workplace Relationships with Inclusive Meetings workshops.

Driven by her passion to help nonprofit leaders create inclusive workplaces, Linda Jenkins became certified to facilitate Managing Unconscious Bias in the Workplace workshops through the Cultural Intelligence Center in August 2019. In 2021, she strengthened her ability to help nonprofit leaders govern and manage inclusively by earning the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Workplace Certificate from the Muma College of Business at the University of South Florida.

All our Disrupting Unconscious Bias in Your Workplace workshops are designed to help participants:

• Understand unconscious bias and its impact on individual behaviors and organizational practices, processes, and policies.
• Explore their individual unconscious biases and the systemic biases present in common organizational practices, processes, and policies.
• Explore strategies for identifying and disrupting individual and organizational unconscious biases to develop and sustain an inclusive culture.

Workshop lengths range from eight to sixteen hours and may be provided virtually or in-person in one- or two-hour sessions with at least two days between sessions. Clients may bundle unconscious bias workshops with one-, two- or four-hour sessions on using inclusive language to strengthen workplace relationships and/or strategies to reduce bias in human resources practices, processes, and policies and/or leading inclusive meetings to strengthen relationships and results.

All our Words Matter: Using Inclusive Language in Your Workplace workshops provide participants with materials to help them learn why and how to use inclusive language in their workplace. Workshop topics include:

• Definition of inclusive language
• Benefits of using inclusive language in your workplace
• Eight guiding principles for using inclusive language in the workplace
• Examples of when and how to use inclusive language in the workplace
• Pro tips to help participants use inclusive language in their workplace

Workshop lengths range from two to four hours and may be provided virtually or in-person. Four-hour workshops are customized to include examples from client communications and in-session interactive activities. Customization and activities help participants identify specific ways they can individually and collectively use inclusive language to strengthen their workplace relationships.

All our Meeting Culture Matters: Strengthen Your Workplace Relationships with Inclusive Meetings workshops provide participants with materials to help them learn why and how to lead inclusive meetings in their workplace. Workshop topics include:

• The definition of inclusive meetings
• How inclusive meetings strengthen workplace relationships by reducing bias and increasing psychological safety
• The attributes of inclusive meetings
• Guidance on facilitating inclusive meetings to strengthen workplace relationships and results

Workshop lengths range from one and a half (1.5) to four (4) hours and may be provided virtually or in-person. All workshops include interactive activities. Four-hour workshops are customized to include examples from client meetings. Customization and activities help participants identify specific ways they can individually and collectively use inclusive meetings to strengthen their workplace relationships and results.

Virtual Workshop Sample (4:24 Minutes) Words Matter: Using Gender Inclusive Language