A Beginner’s Guide to Managing Diverse Teams

Become a better people manager with your own Inclusive Leader Growth Plan

Created by: Marie Deveaux
Executive Leadership Coach

What Will I Learn?

• Increase your ability to communicate inclusively
• Learn more about your own biases and blind spots as a leader
• Understand your strengths and growth areas as an inclusive leader
• Develop a personalized leadership growth plan with actionable milestones to increase capacity for inclusion as a manager of diverse teams

Requirements

• Have knowledge of situational leadership and basic understandings of the differences in delegating, directing, coaching and supporting their direct reports.
• General knowledge about how to conduct regular 1:1 meetings, track and measure performance over time, as well as foundational skill sets in
• Emotional intelligence (active listening, curiosity, judgment free conversations, empathic leadership), -Ability to build rapport in a new workplace relationship

Target audience

• My students are people managers who are struggling to stay active in their inclusive leadership journey. They have been engaged in DEIB initiatives across the last 24 months and are searching for what’s next as they build their stamina to be inclusive leaders consistently, communicate with a shared and inclusive vocabulary, and confront their own feelings of imposter syndrome and “not enough” when it comes to being an advocate for historically marginalized populations, especially in the workplace.
• People managers with at least 1-2 years of experience
• Managers with some decision-making authority
• Leaders who are often in public facing dialogues about personnel changes and organizational culture.
• Professionals who believe in treating people fairly and in the benefits of creating cultures of belonging