This webcast will provide practical, effective ways your organization can increase its bottom line wile increasing gender diversity and improving cross-gender communication with customers and teams. Gender diversity is too often seen as a women’s issue but it has positive benefits for everyone. This workshop will be led by Andie Kramer and Al Harris, the authors of the new book Breaking Through Bias: Communication Techniques for Women to Succeed at Work. Publishers Weekly calls their book “a well-organized, well-thought-out call to action.” Andie and Al offer simple, unique, and highly effective techniques for dealing with the unconscious biases pervade even the best intentioned organizations. They will address tricky, real world scenarios that illustrate the pervasive and harmful effect of unconscious gender stereotypes. Andie and Al have had great success with diverse groups in many industries in conveying the value of gender diverse workplaces and providing the information and methods needed to make them a reality.
Learning Objectives:
-Recognize the existence of gender stereotypes
-Learn practical strategies to avoid the discriminatory effect of these stereotypes
-Armed with this information and strategies, you will be in a position to make positive, bottom-line enhancing changes to your organization and your personal communication techniques
