What You Will Learn
Overview:
Bias is a natural part of the human experience, subtly influencing our decisions, interactions, and perspectives. For leaders, unexamined bias can impact team dynamics, decision-making, and organizational culture, potentially limiting growth and inclusivity. This class invites managers and supervisors to go beyond awareness and develop actionable strategies for leveraging communication and inclusivity as tools to challenge and reduce bias in their teams.
"Rethinking Bias: The Complete Master Class" equips leaders with the skills to recognize and address their own biases, fostering environments where every team member’s unique value—“somebodiness”—is acknowledged and celebrated. By honing communication skills and building strategies to include diverse perspectives, leaders will learn to create workspaces that support dignity, encourage collaboration, and drive meaningful impact.
Expected Outcomes:
Participants will deepen their understanding of how biases shape their interactions, enhancing their ability to communicate empathetically and inclusively. Leaders will leave with tools to cultivate a culture of respect and openness within their teams, promoting a workplace where every voice is valued, and everyone has the opportunity to flourish.
Objectives:
Developing Self-Reflective Awareness
Identify and reflect on bias and its impact on how we live our lives with each other and in community.
Understanding the Impact on Relationships
Explore the ways in which individual biases can detrimentally affect personal and professional relationships and accomplishments.
Analyzing Organizational Implications
Encourage critical thinking about the role of individual biases in contributing to systemic issues.
Transforming Interactions Through Communication
Gain practical communication and listening skills that foster openness, collaboration and mutual understanding, enriching team dynamics and building deeper empathy.
Promoting Somebodiness
Cultivate somebodiness through active listening, embracing curiosity to understand and appreciate diverse perspectives, and nurturing empathy as a powerful tool to connect with others and dismantle barriers erected by biases.
Cultivating Recognition of Inherent Value
Understand the benefits of recognizing and acknowledging the inherent value, or "somebodiness," in every individual, irrespective of differences.
Curriculum
Subtitles Available
While watching the course videos, select the keyboard icon in the lower right side of your screen to access subtitles in both English and Español.
Mientras ves los videos del curso, selecciona el ícono del teclado en la parte inferior derecha de tu pantalla para acceder a los subtítulos en inglés y en español.
Your Instructor: Tim Terrentine
Founder & Chief Translator at Translator's Consulting Group
Tim Terrentine is a leader who has a demonstrated track record of bringing talented people and resources together to propel positive change. His unique ability to think strategically and facilitate environments of high performance through accountability and fun have helped the people and organizations he has encountered continue to thrive.
Tim’s organizational and leadership experience spans across industries — for-profit, nonprofit, government, healthcare, K-12 and higher education, economic development and more — impacting a spectrum of diverse populations and socio-economic groups. Each time, he has led change, created meaning and built people.
Through both failure and success, Tim has learned to communicate clearly and effectively with stakeholders and customers from a range of backgrounds, mobilizing them to successfully execute the expectations and outcomes envisioned for them. His executive presence and emotional intelligence afford him strategic advantages in developing new relationships and conceptualizing and executing regional and national business endeavors. Tim’s God-given gifts are tailor-made to address the areas of inclusion, people and leadership development, strategy formulation, and coaching. He is known to be positive, authentic, and a force of mobilization and motivation. Tim purposefully aims to leave each assignment better than he found it.
Learn more about Tim’s credentials and education.