Work place re education training. Is this really good for the business?
The following is a real company directive. Identify the premise. Have discussion on how this would impact a large retail business and its employees. I have a very strong opinion about this as it directly offends... err... impacts me.
From: Shxxx Oxxx, Chief Diversity Officer
To: All Mxxx Colleagues
Coming Soon: Companywide Inclusive Workplace Training
One of the simplest ways to help promote diversity and inclusion at Xxxxx is to avoid bias in how we think, act and operate. Bias is one of the greatest roadblocks to an inclusive culture, especially because while the judgements we sometimes make about individuals or groups are often unintentional, they can have a big impact.
On Monday, June xx, we’re launching a new required course, Inclusive Workplace: Understanding and Managing Unconscious Bias, that will teach you how to understand, identify and mitigate bias. This is an expansion of the instructor-led course that Directors and above completed last year.
The new, online course will shed light on the impact of unconscious bias in the workplace and identify strategies to help you manage bias in everyday interactions with colleagues and, as applicable, customers. You’ll learn simple tips to start using immediately. If you participated in an unconscious bias session last year, this will be a great refresher.
The companywide training schedule is below. Timing varies based on your function and role. Look for an email with additional course information and instructions when it’s time to complete your training.
Corporate and Support Functions (including Sxxx Cxxxx)
• June xx-July xx | People Leaders and all Exempt Colleagues
• July x-August xx | Non-exempt Colleagues without direct reports
Xxxxx
• July x-xx | People Leaders and all Exempt Colleagues
• July xx-September xx | Non-exempt Colleagues without direct reports
Fostering a diverse and inclusive culture isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s crucial to building our business, developing top talent and responding effectively to changing customer expectations. The small choices that you make in the moments that matter can have a big impact on our colleagues, customers and community.
Thank you for your participation and support.
From: Shxxx Oxxx, Chief Diversity Officer
To: All Mxxx Colleagues
Coming Soon: Companywide Inclusive Workplace Training
One of the simplest ways to help promote diversity and inclusion at Xxxxx is to avoid bias in how we think, act and operate. Bias is one of the greatest roadblocks to an inclusive culture, especially because while the judgements we sometimes make about individuals or groups are often unintentional, they can have a big impact.
On Monday, June xx, we’re launching a new required course, Inclusive Workplace: Understanding and Managing Unconscious Bias, that will teach you how to understand, identify and mitigate bias. This is an expansion of the instructor-led course that Directors and above completed last year.
The new, online course will shed light on the impact of unconscious bias in the workplace and identify strategies to help you manage bias in everyday interactions with colleagues and, as applicable, customers. You’ll learn simple tips to start using immediately. If you participated in an unconscious bias session last year, this will be a great refresher.
The companywide training schedule is below. Timing varies based on your function and role. Look for an email with additional course information and instructions when it’s time to complete your training.
Corporate and Support Functions (including Sxxx Cxxxx)
• June xx-July xx | People Leaders and all Exempt Colleagues
• July x-August xx | Non-exempt Colleagues without direct reports
Xxxxx
• July x-xx | People Leaders and all Exempt Colleagues
• July xx-September xx | Non-exempt Colleagues without direct reports
Fostering a diverse and inclusive culture isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s crucial to building our business, developing top talent and responding effectively to changing customer expectations. The small choices that you make in the moments that matter can have a big impact on our colleagues, customers and community.
Thank you for your participation and support.
in any discussion, it is...define or be defined...I have always gone by this premise and never lost a debate or discussion...key here is who defines "bias"...
This is the LAST place on earth to be accused of bias and non inclusion.
Hospice means: Hospitality.
I asked all sorts of questions as to why they thought we needed to be targeted and we eventually got away from the subject to everyone's delight...score one for the people, score 0 for HR...I don't think she's come out of her office since.
Suits me just fine...but now I am labeled recalcitrant.
That too, suits me just fine.
I probably should’ve said, “brutal authoritarians in training.”
This is not training. It is mandatory attendance to brainwashing. Nothing less than that. At this point I will refuse to attend while filing a conscious objection complaint. Should they fire me over it I will welcome the forced retirement golden parachute. I am an objectavist. Not a pawn of tyranny. This is all due to 2016 political nonsense. My company has fallen pray to them. And yes another great business bites the dust. So sad.
has your company experienced bias and non inclusion in the past?...I doubt you have, save for HR which is always making stuff up in my observation.
Second: is this training really going to do any good? I doubt that too. from now on, everyone will be walking on egg shells and will rarely say anything to anyone.
Another company bits the dust.
Both groups tend to become authoritarians in training.
The next discussion is covering the very subject of diversity and inclusion and how accepting people "different" from ourselves is somehow exceedingly beneficial to our organization (though it's never made clear, exactly why this is so). In fact, it reminds me of similar periodic discussions I had to attend, while in the Marine Corps (which were also a total waste of time).
All I've got to say is that I'm glad that I'm retiring at the end of the year. At that point, I will feel absolutely NO obligation to accept any kind of moral perversion. If I offend someone...I'll only answer to myself (and my wife, but she generally agrees with me).
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