The Center’s Cultural Connections workshops encourage change and growth, exploring issues of identity, fairness, inclusivity, and organizational culture to improve the way businesses operate.
We help workplaces focus on their organizational cultures to ensure equal dignity for all. Studies show that unaddressed culture challenges in the workplace lead to low morale and poor employee retention and can negatively impact an organization’s bottom line. McKinsey Group confirmed in 2020: “The most diverse companies are now more likely than ever to outperform less diverse peers on profitability.” Organizational culture training leads to increased creativity, innovation, and decreased vulnerability to liability.
The Right Time for organizational culture Training
Your organization will benefit if you answer NO to any of these questions:
Our program is built on three key pillars designed to set your organization up for success.
+ Experience: The Center houses Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr’s papers and connects the civil right
s and global human rights movements to challenges today, drawing on that knowledge to improve workplace culture.
+ Flexibility: Our Culture Connections workshops are customized for companies, government offices, nonprofits and educational institutions in three formats: onsite attendance at The Center in downtown Atlanta, at a location of your choosing, or virtually through facilitator-led, real-time programs.
+ A Brave Space: Culture Connection conversations can be challenging, even when we recognize the benefit. We offer a “brave space” safe enough to lean into for honest, transparent conversations, to move past discomfort and encourage experiences that transform workplace culture.
DESIGNING YOUR Culture Connections EXPERIENCE
Examining Beliefs and Values of Your Organization
Using an organization’s values, we explore how they manifest in the institution’s culture.
Creating a Common Language for Organizational Culture Concepts
Are we speaking the same language when we talk about creating experiences that speak to each individual in the organization where all feel a sense of belonging?
Understanding Implicit Bias and Microaggressions
An exploration of implicit bias, how it manifests as a microaggression, and how we can identify and address it.
Embracing Cross Generational Diversity
Explore generational diversity and how age, race, power and privilege intersect.
Cultivating Inclusive Behaviors
An exploration of emotional intelligence and the role it plays in creating inclusive cultures and the foundational behaviors leaders should model to create these cultures.
Applying the Lessons of History to the Workplace
Explore the impact of history on current inequities in organizations and industries. Provide tools for organizations to create environments of belonging, equal opportunity, and ensure employee populations that reflect the communities served.
Empowering Allyship
Explores the partnership between allies and members of under-represented groups.
LGBTQ+ belonging in the Workplace
Definitions, microaggressions, practical applications for an inclusive workplace.
BRG/ERG Leaders Advocating for Equal Opportunity
Addresses how BRG/ERG leaders can build alliances in relationships across differences and advocate for underrepresented groups
Empathy-Building through History
Senior managers explore different perspectives in the decision-making processes in the historic Montgomery Bus Boycott and apply them to current issues in Organizational Culture.
The Business Case for Advocating for Organizational Culture
Advancing Organizational Culture is an ethical imperative, but it’s also a business imperative and should be at the core of a company’s business strategy.
Using Feedback as a Tool for Equal Opportunity
High-quality feedback is crucial for individual advancement and organizational growth. Talent thrives where people give and receive honest feedback.
Gender Identity: Impact in the Workplace
Expectations for single mothers, male caregivers, female leadership; understanding gender identities, heteronormativity, and cisgender normativity.
Significance of Belonging
From productivity to retention, fostering belonging increases healthy connections, and increased well-being.
Cultivating Psychological Safety
Explore its role in creating inclusive organizations, increasing collaboration, innovation, trust, and accountability.
Defining Identity and Navigating Power
Explore individual and social identity, the relationship to power, and how leaders can use their power to advance Organizational Culture.
Navigating Challenging Conversations
In table-top, scenario-based activities, leaders learn techniques for empathetic listening, cultural humility, giving supportive feedback, and asking effective questions.
Creating a Meeting with Organizational Culture in Mind
Leaders are taught to use effective practices to conduct productive meetings that leverage the contributions and thoughts of all members of the team through proper planning of agendas, facilitation, and follow up activities.
We have created several Learning Series to provide a roadmap to support your ongoing needs and unique roles within your organization. Each “series” is made up of 4-8 modules such as Cultivating Psychological Safety, Using Feedback as a Tool for Equal Opportunity, The Business Case for Advocating for Organizational Culture, Navigating Challenging Conversation, and Characteristics of Inclusive Leaders. These modules will be delivered either monthly or quarterly, providing a roadmap to support your ongoing needs.
Leadership Series
+ Cultivating Psychological Safety
+ Using Feedback as a Tool for Equal Opportunity
+ The Business Case for Advocating for Organizational Culture
+ Defining Identity and Navigating Power
+ Navigating Challenging Conversations
BRG/ERG Leaders Series
+ Advocating for Equal Opportunity
+ Cultivating Psychological Safety
+ Navigating Challenging Conversations
+ Empowering Allyships
+ Defining Identity and Navigating Power
General Audiences Series
+ Examining Beliefs and Values
+ Creating a Common Language for Organizational Culture Concepts
+ Understanding Implicit Bias and Microaggressions
+ Cultivating Inclusive Behaviors
+ Embracing Cross Generational Diversity
+ Empowering Allyship
+ Navigating Challenging Conversations
Onboarding/New Employee Series
+ Creating a common language for Organizational Culture Concepts
+ Understanding implicit bias and microaggressions
+ Embracing cross generational diversity
+ Empowering allyship
LGBTQ+ Series
+ Understanding Implicit Bias and Microaggressions
+ LGBTQ+ belonging in the Workplace
+ Gender identity: impact in the workplace
+ Being an Ally to LGBTQ+ in the workplace
HR Leaders Series
+ Cultivating psychological safety
+ Creating a meeting with Organizational Culture in mind
+ Using Feedback as a Tool for Equal Opportunity
+ Defining identity and navigating power
The Center would like to thank our sponsor(s) for their support of our mission driving initiatives. If you are interested in sponsoring The Center’s Cultural Connections program, please contact Phil Polk at [email protected].
UPS is a proud supporter of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights.
Huntington Ingalls is a proud supporter of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights.
Contact us to discuss how we can build an experience to support your organizational culture needs. Contact Pam Seiler at: [email protected], 720-581-1436
View 2024 NCCHR Culture Connections Curriculum and Series & Pricing