Authentic Management

Dive into management essentials critical to nurturing diverse, high-performing teams, including psychological safety (vs. safe space), performance feedback, power awareness, time management, as well as general smart practices for leaders.

Become a manager of choice by learning to use awareness and positional power to nurture diverse, high-performing environments where clarity, communication and creativity flourish for all employees regardless of identity or background. Explore how to create trusting relationships as the foundation of teamwork, engage and get buy-in from diverse team members and interrupt subtle forms of discrimination to create an equitable environment. 

You will learn:

• The critical role of psychological safety in nurturing high performance as well as diversity and inclusion on teams;
• The difference between psychological safety and a safe space, and how to discern conflict from harm;
• Strategies for developing emotional intelligence for the workplace including awareness of the “emotional tax” on BIPOC employees;  
• How to give and receive effective performance feedback, essential to support the growth and development of all employees;
• Key strategies to maximize team cohesion in service of organizational mission: time-management, goal-setting and delegating;
• How to use power well—avoiding its overuse or underuse—in order to be an inclusive and impactful leader.
• Giving and Receiving Effective Performance Feedback
• Recognizing and Managing Micro-Inequities at Work