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Building Bridges towards LGBT Diversity: LGBT cultural competency including terminology, history and key concepts, business case for LGBT workplace equality, and action planning to include policy, practice and workplace climate changes.

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Train the Trainer: A 2-year certification course to use Out & Equal LGBT Leadership Diversity training materials in your workplace or practice. Provides in-depth work on the business case and how to evaluate your workplace.

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Developing a Strong LGBT Ally Program: Based on Dr David Hall's book "Allies at Work: Creating a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Inclusive Work Environment, " this course proves the steps to move from awareness to ally to advocate regarding LGBT workplace equality.

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ERG Value Proposition: Employee Resource Groups continue to face their main challenge: member engagement. Rather than a challenge in itself, often member apathy is a symptom of an ERG lacking a defined value proposition. In this call, we will outline the way ERGs can balance 3 areas to deliver value: to their membership, their company and their community.

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Transgender Intensive: A comprehensive course on gender identity including concepts and terminology; addressing transition in the workplace and assuring policies, practices and benefits support transgender employees.

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Dialogues on Gender Identity: Equality in the workplace based on Gender Identity has emerged as a major focus for companies in all sectors and around the world.  If you get transgender-inclusive benefits points on the Corporate Equality Index, is that all your company needs to do?  If you identify as transgender does that mean you will need to use the company transition plan or are you just changing your name and pronoun preference? If your ERG is working to be trans-inclusive, what are the best practices and what are some step by step ways to reach your inclusion goals?  Finally, how might you handle basic gender-identity-related workplace situations that face HR professionals, managers, allies and LGBT employees?

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Targeted AND Privileged: The Importance of Examining Whiteness within the LGBT Community: We work hard for LGBT workplace equality every day but do we hear the diversity of voices within the community? This course looks at privilege, micro-inequities and what we can do to change our worlds. Taught by Stephanie Puentes & Laurie Lippin.

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Beyond Kumbayah: Elevating the Practice of Cultural Competency

Presenters: Joel A. Brown and Simma Lieberman

As the LGBT and ally community grows closer to full inclusion in the workplace, it is critical that it finds ways to include and create relationships with other diverse groups that have experienced many of the same hurdles in workplaces.

This webinar focuses on building cultural competency. It begins by understanding our own life experiences that helped shape who we are. Understanding your own life experiences and discovering the differences of those around us to create a stronger, more productive team is becoming a skill employees globally must acquire. It is vital that we move beyond diversity and understand the importance of cultural competency in every interaction we have.

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Out Online: Exploring the Unique Opportunities and Challenges of Using Virtual Spaces to Further Workplace Equality

New information technologies are changing everything about our personal and work lives. From email and online discussion groups to online HR trainings and company twitter accounts, workplaces and employees are increasingly engaged in virtual work. In this course we will examine the unique contributions that virtual technologies like online discussion groups and Second Life can make to LGBT workplace equality endeavors as well as the challenges these new technologies pose for issues around sexual orientation and gender identity. By exploring both current research on whether and how new technologies can be a tool for personal and workplace climate change, and case studies of innovative technological application, we will develop a robust understanding of the possibilities, potential, and caveats offered by information technology.

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Taking Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equality from Theory to Reality!

“Taking Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equality from Theory to Reality” is essential for examining the importance of coming out for LGBT employees, and for learning how we can create safe and supportive work environments, both in the United States and abroad. This webinar, led by Brian McNaught, is designed for LGBT employees, straight allies, affinity and employee resource groups, and human resources and diversity professionals.

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