Purpose:
To build understanding and capacity for greater diversity and inclusion within the team and between teams.
Ideally used for:
Currently diverse teams, newly formed teams, or teams who are looking to develop greater connection to other teams.
Team Performance Objectives:
- Build understanding of what diversity and inclusion are and why they matter
- Understand how and why we are biased, and the impact biases have on our ability to be inclusive
- Learn a couple of techniques for overcoming biases
- Take positive action to include greater diversity and inclusion
About the Workshop Author
Sarah Friis is the co-founder and lead designer of Workshops4Teams.com. Sarah has an MA (Hons) in psychology and has spent her career both in consulting and corporate roles in organisational and leadership development.
Sarah is a professionally qualified facilitator with over 6000 hours of facilitation experience and 20 years expertise in workshop design. Sarah is also a qualified Human Synergistics Coach, Strengths Profile Coach, Trained Teacher of Mindful Self-Compassion, accredited Emotional Intelligence Coach (EQ-i) and accredited Design Thinking facilitator.
Her passion for developing high-performance teams and cultures led her to co-author The Power of Team – a practical guidebook for breakthrough performance and a highly acclaimed resource manual for leaders wanting to create great teams.
Bringing together her expertise in facilitation, team leadership and group psychology ensures that each workshop is a well-crafted experience – making it easy for anyone to build great teams.