Question: What powerful, eroding force has the biggest impact on engagement, performance, and inclusion? Answer:The little things, subliminal messages we don't talk about but that profoundly affect performance and morale.
Question: What are Microinequities? Answer: Small, subtle signals we send to other people through our words and behavior that cause them to feel discounted, excluded, or devalued.
Question: What are Micro-affirmations? Answer: Small, subtle signals we send to other people through our words or behavior that cause them to feel encouraged, appreciated, valued, and supported.
The "little things" are behaviors we all use, intentionally and unintentionally. They can make our organizations highly productive or erode their power, innovation and productivity. Designed by a pioneer in the field of diversity and inclusion, Little Things Mean A Lot™ shows how the ways we value and devalue our colleagues impact our workplace and its effectiveness.
This program combines a compelling business case with practical strategies individuals, teams and leaders can use to counter microinequities while building high performance work environments.
Learning Objectives:
Recognize that the way we treat each other at work - the little things we do - has a big impact.
Learn to respond effectively to negative messages (microinequities) that can undermine our success.
Equip yourself with simple tools and strategies to make the workplace more inclusive.
Program includes:
22-minute DVD designed for flexible use
Leader's Guide: agendas for 3-hour and 1-hour workshops, detailed notes for facilitating intact and executive work teams
Participant Handouts
PowerPoint Presentations
10 Desk Reminder Cards
Brigid Moynahan, founder of The Next Level, Inc., has designed and delivered more than 800 corporate programs in the US and internationally. A pioneer in addressing inclusion issues in organizations, her work has been profiled in Working Woman Magazine, Chief Learning Officer, Diversity, Inc., the Wall Street Journal, the Catalyst Awards and the Conference Board.
Count Me In®
For Engagement, Teamwork and Innovation
Don't let subtle exclusion and put downs become a major barrier to performance and innovation in your organization. Instead, discover the hidden yet pervasive impact of "microinequities," small daily acts of exclusion that damage morale, undermine teamwork and chip away at productivity and employee engagement. Unlike traditional diversity programs, our Count Me In® facilitators teach you how to counter this effect using micro-affirmations, small yet effective daily behaviors that value the differences among employees and increase employee engagement, productivity and creativity.
CMI® is available as a keynote presentation, a summit with keynote and small-group skills-building sessions, and a stand-alone workshop.
Discussion topics and activities:
All programs:
Selections from DVD: Little Things Mean A Lot™
Business case : linking inclusion with high performance teamwork and innovation
The climate for inclusion; how each of us contributes
How microinequities discourage performance, kill innovation and sabotage diversity efforts
Why we wall out differences and how to value them instead
The leader's role in creating a climate of exclusion or inclusion
Experiential activity: impact of micro-messages
Using micro-affirmations to promote inclusion
Additional topics covered in Summits and Workshops:
Dialogue and assertion skills geared to organization's or team's issues
Mini culture audit, specific to team or organization
Key take-aways: what you can do; what others can do
Keynote
1.5 hour session for groups of up to 300 delivered by Brigid Moynahan and/or Walter Manley. Includes dynamic and interactive presentation and integrated use of the Little Things Mean A Lot™ DVD
Summit
5-hour program with keynote kick-off, followed by small group skills-building sessions and interactive exercises, with PowerPoint presentation and Little Things Mean A Lot™ DVD, miniculture audit, collection and analysis of feedback and action planning
Workshop
6-7 hour full-day, customized training of 24 to 30 participants. Includes PowerPoint presentation, Little Things Mean A Lot™ DVD, awareness exercises, and skills training, miniculture audit, collection and analysis of feedback and action planning.
A positive, action-oriented approach to promoting inclusion and diversity, Count Me In® was featured at The Conference Board (2005) and The Catalyst Awards (2002). It was recently profiled by The Wall Street Journal and Chief Learning Officer. Unique amongst diversity initiatives, it consistently achieves outstanding ratings from participants in Fortune 500 corporations across industries and around the globe.
Brigid Moynahan Founder and President
Since founding The Next Level, Inc. in 1986, Brigid has designed and led pioneering programs on diversity, inclusion, mentoring and advancing women leaders for Fortune 500 companies worldwide. Brigid draws on her background as an actor in her engaging and highly interactive presentations, connecting with her audience to effectively communicate the importance of valuing the differences among us.
Walter Manley Director Diversity and Inclusion Offerings
One of the Next Level's lead facilitators, consultants and keynote speakers, Walter Manley has played a key role in the firm's pioneering work on microinequities. He has an extensive background in organization development, cross cultural dynamics, corporate communications, and human resource strategic planning. Walter's warm and open approach to the topic puts his audiences at ease and opens their minds to his message of inclusion.
Brigid Moynahan, Founder and President of The Next Level, Inc.
For the past twenty years, Brigid Moynahan has created innovative programs to advance diversity and leadership in a virtual Who's Who of Fortune 500 companies. Her work in this area is considered by many to be a "best practice." She and her programs have been profiled in The Wall Street Journal, Chief Learning Officer, and Diversity Inc. Brigid has designed and led more than 800 corporate programs on mentoring, coaching, team building, diversity, and leadership. Her work on microinequities was profiled as a key diversity initiative at The Conference Board (2005) and at the Catalyst Awards (2002). Her programs for executive women are widely praised in the business world. Prominent companies have adopted her company's LEAD™ coaching methodology and Leadership Futures™ mentoring programs as core management and succession planning tools.
A vital source of insight and encouragement, Brigid guides clients as they strengthen their leadership, develop others, and build powerful alliances that fuel growth and innovation. As a result, clients act and interact in ways that reflect their vision and values. Steeped in the science of management and the art of communication, Brigid brings a unique blend of experience, expertise, passion, intelligence, and commitment to her work.
Brigid is a Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, with advanced degrees and training from Hunter College, The Graduate Center, National Training Laboratories, the Tavistock Institute, the MIT Dialogue Project, The New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and Systems Centered Training (Yvonne Agazarian). She has taught communications at The New School, City College, and the New York Institute of Technology. Before founding her consulting firm in 1986, she served as an executive with Burson-Marsteller and the American Management Association in New York City.
Keynote Topics
Understanding Women's Leadership
What sets women leaders apart? Are their skills being used to maximum advantage? In this frank discussion, Brigid sheds new light on the challenges and opportunities that face today's female executives. Drawing on her groundbreaking work in this field, she empowers her audience to achieve greater heights.
The Power of Connected Leadership
Organizations today are rapidly evolving from simple and rigid hierarchies to highly complex systems of networks. Leading in the midst of the networked organization requires new skills in managing complexity through a vast array of interdependent relationships. In this presentation, Brigid discusses why connected leadership is so critical today, key influence challenges associated with this form of leadership, ways in which women are modeling the way in this new leadership form, and strategies all leaders can use in order to succeed in the networked environment.
Gaining Career Traction: Networking Your Way to Success
Many talented managers make the mistake of focusing on performance at the expense of cultivating influence and exposure. In this hands-on session, participants learn new strategies to communicate their leadership value by building a web of alliances that ensure greater influence and exposure.
The Secret of Self-Marketing: Defining Your Value Proposition
The world is changing too fast for leaders to wait to be chosen, recognized or promoted. Don't let yourself be overlooked or passed over. Instead, get clear about the value that you bring and make it clear to others in a simple and compelling message, spoken with
power and conviction. The result is greatly enhanced influence and visibility.
Unleashing the Power of Inclusion
There is tremendous untapped potential waiting to be expressed by people with divergent experiences. What gets in the way is our tendency to wall out differences in favor of what is similar. Don't let subtle exclusion and put downs build up to become a major barrier to performance. Learn to counter these "microinequities" using positive communications to enhance influence, strengthen relationships, and positively transform your workplace.
