Dealing With Microaggressions As An Employee

What you'll learn
What are microaggressions?
Examples of microaggressions.
How to disrupt microaggressions for ourselves and marginalized groups.
Take an inventory to test your own unconscious bias.
Create an action plan to address a microaggression.
Requirements
There is no prerequisite.
Description
Do you find yourself struggling with a response to a statement or action someone has made towards you, a co-worker, about a belief system or group of people?Is this interfering with your engagement at work?Are you defensive when around people who think different than you do?Has there been a significant event that you are mindful of impacting your interactions with people, and you want to change this?Do you have a hard time letting go of conflict once the communication occurs?Microaggression is a term used for brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative prejudicial slights and insults toward any group, particularly culturally marginalized groups.In this course you will learn:How to effectively communicate a desired outcome or change in behavior when challenged by microaggressions.When to communicate your needs, fostering safety and respect.Through examples of various implicit bias statements will be given with solution focused responses.With experiencing the implicit bias of another person, we experience conflictual thoughts, emotions and may act accordingly. Through this course, you will fine tune communication and conflict resolution skills necessary to navigate your world of work. We are a diverse population in many ways. A client recently improved his relationships and had less conflict in his life. When I asked him what made the difference, he simply told me he made the decision to stop fighting with people. He understood that he cannot change people, only himself. He was empowered with these concepts to communicate his needs, address the microaggression and move forward without making things personal. This is the desired outcome from this course!
Overview
Section 1: Introduction
Lecture 1 Language of diversity and the purpose of communication.
Lecture 2 What are microaggressions?
Section 2: How to disrupt Microaggressions for ourselves and marginalized groups.
Lecture 3 Microaggressions: Key Considerations Before You Have a Conversation
Lecture 4 Microaggressions: Examples & Responses
Section 3: Understanding your own implicit bias.
Lecture 5 My Bias
Section 4: Next Steps
Lecture 6 8 approaches to respond to microaggressions
Employees who want to improve their response to microaggressions.


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