Leading Inclusive Teams

MO 605: Leading Across Differences
Taught by Professor Aparna Joshi
Available to FTMBA, GMBA, and OYM students

In the dynamic environments that organizations inevitably encounter, developing a diversity strategy that is aligned with the organization’s strategic goals and attuned to its diverse stakeholders is a key competency. In this course, you will learn to develop the skills and competencies needed to navigate diversity and inclusion dilemmas as well as strategies to achieve organizational goals such as innovation, talent management, productivity, and well-being through inclusion. Professor Aparna Joshi has curated and organized decades of research across many different disciplines to enable your learning goals. This research informs solutions and guidelines that leaders and managers can readily adopt to disseminate in their organizations. This course is organized around three “Acts”. In Act 1: Recognizing Differences, you will learn to recognize how social differences translate into inequity and what you can do to interrupt this process. In Act II: Responding to Differences, you will learn to apply two mindset tools to relate positively to others who look, think, or believe differently. Finally, in Act III: Relating Across Differences, you will learn to build positive relationships across differences at the personal level, in your team, and in your organization. We will achieve your learning goals through class discussions, self-reflections and a team project.

MO 730: Leading Diverse Teams and Organizations
Taught by Professor Lindy Greer
Available to GMBA, OMBA, WMBA, and non-Ross graduate students

In this course, you’ll learn to better understand yourself and your personal identity in the workplace and gain new skills to take action as an active ally and change advocate. Then, you’ll gain best practices for leading diverse and inclusive teams, including honing your own skills as a leader. We’ll then discuss concrete strategies to create fair and inclusive organizational processes and norms. Finally, you’ll learn about best practices for an inclusive organizational strategy, including the role of metrics and change management. You’ll have the chance to reflect on your leadership journey, practice new skills in peer learning groups, and create an action plan for an organization you know

Coursera: Leading Diverse Teams & Organizations
Taught by Professor Lindy Greer
Available to all University of Michigan students

In this course, you’ll gain evidence-based knowledge and practical tools to help you design and lead diverse, equitable, and inclusive (DEI) teams and organizations. Whatever your background, and wherever in the world you may be, you’ll gain tools to accelerate your personal journey to lead diverse teams and organizations. This program is specifically designed to accommodate learners from different backgrounds (gender, race, country of origin, etc) as well as different starting knowledge points (new to the topic or social justice warriors). In the course, you’ll learn to better understand yourself and your personal identity in the workplace and gain new skills to identify privilege, implicit bias, and microaggressions in your organization and to take action as an active ally and change advocate. After hearing from experts representing a diverse array of real-world perspectives, you’ll understand best practices for equitable organizational processes and norms and inclusive behavioral practices in teams. Finally, you’ll learn about best practices for organizational DEI strategy, including the role of metrics in DEI work and how DEI work can be integrated into the heart of an organization. At the end of the course, you’ll create a DEI action plan which you can apply to your own life and workplace.