Smith Assembly's Pre-Approved Activity For SHRM Recertification
Inclusion Training Workshop
Our hands-on workshop was co-created with two innovators from Oaxaca Mexico to have a diverse and intercultural lens. It isn’t just meaningful and impactful, it’s also engaging. Learn how to think about Justice, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion (JEDI) in a different way, have more productive conversations and collaborations, and add several strategies + techniques to your toolbox.
Past participants have told us it's so creative and inspiring that their friends and family enjoyed hearing about it!
Think About JEDI In A Different Way • Improve Your Conversations & Collaborations • Add Strategies + Techniques To Your Toolbox
Strengthen Relationships With Your Multicultural & Multigenerational Colleagues
Earn 2.5 PDCs Towards SHRM-CP® Or SHRM-SCP® Recertification For Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) On Your Own Schedule & At Your Own Pace
Additional DetailsWhat It's Like
Meaningful
You need to learn about JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion) and want to do so through a diverse and intercultural lens. In our workshop, after opening your mind in the hands-on activity, you'll learn how to navigate your discomfort, become a better ally, and cultivate a culture of accountability in your workplace.
Impactful
You want your dollars to support social and environmental impact. Smith Assembly participates in 1% for the Planet, donates an additional 5% of our revenue every year to community-led and values-aligned nonprofits driving local innovation, is a Certified B Corporation™, and is a Certified WBE.
Engaging
You want a creative and productive experience that encourages connection, reflection, and conversation. In our workshop, before reflecting on JEDI, you'll learn about the lives/communities of two innovators from Oaxaca Mexico while listening to music, watching videos, and doing a hands-on activity they co-created for you.
2-Minute Sneak Peek
Our workshop has a number of accessibility features — videos have captions/subtitles, the presentation has voice overs, and there's a separate text file with transcriptions and descriptions.
Testimonial
Get You Thinking In Different Ways
❝ This hands-on, interactive workshop will get you thinking in different ways about yourself, your team, and the concepts within JEDI. The fun activities get you working together in a different way that is a nice break from the usual workday. ❞
Jennifer Hogg
Client Services Manager
DreamRider Productions Society
It's Not Just Professional Development Credits
Get More For Your Time
You know you're obligated to earn SHRM PDCs. Why not... Choose a course that's meaningful and impactful. Choose a course that's creative, engaging, and inspirational. Choose a course that teaches you ways to improve communication and collaboration with your multigenerational and multicultural colleagues.
Our unique inclusion training workshop is and does all those things. It opens your mind, builds your compassion, enhances your knowledge, and strengthens your relationships. Plus it's fun!
Don't just take our word for it. Read what past participants have said. We've featured a few quotes on this page, and have dozens more testimonials you can review. Of the folks who've taken our inclusion training workshop, a supermajority reported feeling more connected with colleagues and an improvement in their understanding and perspectives on JEDI.
Don't you want this type of experience and these results?
Testimonials
Cross-Cultural
❝ Opportunity to learn about JEDI from a cross-cultural perspective! ❞
Anonymous
Inspirational & Life-Enriching
❝ The discussion on JEDI was very inspirational. A very life-enriching experience. ❞
Anonymous
Fun & Engaging
❝ Great experience, fun and engaging! ❞
Anonymous
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Learn On Your Own Schedule & At Your Own Pace
Our workshop is self-directed and virtually-facilitated. You can start and stop it anytime, it'll automatically remember where you left off. During the approximately 2.5-hour experience, Smith Assemblers guide you via pre-recorded videos and voice overs.
$195 Per Participant
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Testimonial
Approachable & Productive
❝ Smith Assembly made the concepts of JEDI feel approachable. The things I learned in their workshop helped me have more open and productive conversations afterwards. ❞
Tom Malone
CEO
VR Ulysses
What You Learn
Workplace Integration
From day one, we've been intentional about making JEDI a pillar of our business. We knew a lot about diversity, inclusion, equity, and justice before we founded Smith Assembly. Over the past few years, we’ve learned a great deal more about each of those topics as well as how to integrate JEDI into the workplace (especially after completing the B Corp certification process). That said, we’re human-centered innovation consultants. So, when we decided to add this lesson into our course, we hired a SHRM-SCP to co-create it with us.
Co-Created With A SHRM-SCP®
We’d like to introduce you to Robin Eastman, our co-creation partner for the workplace integration section of our workshop. Before becoming an entrepreneur, she worked for over a decade in HR and Social Work (the final four+ years of which for Amazon as a Leadership Development Program Specialist). Robin maintains her status as a SHRM-SCP through a variety of startup, educational, and volunteering initiatives.
Topics Discussed
- JEDI TL;DR
- Intersectionality
- Bias
- JEDI Can Feel Overwhelming
- Why JEDI Is Relevant For Business
- Team Building & Inclusion Training
- Recommended Strategies
- Navigating Discomfort
- Introducing JEDI Into Your Org
- Coaching Resistant Leaders
- Becoming A Better Ally
- Cultivating Accountability
- JEDI Is Everyone’s Responsibility!
- These Are Still Tough Times
Testimonial
Discuss Areas Difficult To Bring Up
❝ It offers a way to discuss some areas that are difficult to bring up naturally with our teams. Appreciate the dynamic between the two of you and the way you integrate the ability for participants to choose their path. Thank YOU! ❞
Heather Ramsey
Managing Partner
Soujourn Partners
What You Earn
PDCs For SHRM
Are you an HR Professional who's recertifying for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP®? Can’t stand the thought of yet another academic PDC activity?
PDC activities can be meaningful, impactful, and engaging. Ours is. Don’t just take our word for it. Past participants say our workshop is “moving”, “compelling”, “powerful”, and “productive”. That’s because it’s hands-on, full of stories, and teaches you things you can use today in your work and life. When you complete our inclusion training workshop, you won't just earn PDCs. You'll learn how to better connect, have more effective conversations, and more productively collaborate with your colleagues.
Better understanding Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Justice — and knowing strategies for integrating them into life and work — are critical to all humans regardless of their profession or discipline. Our online course supports the SHRM BASK™ Key Concept related to acceptance of diversity, including international differences. It also supports the following SHRM BASK™ Proficiency Indicators.
- Contributes to development and maintenance of an organizational culture that values a diverse and inclusive workforce
- Identifies opportunities to enhance the fairness of organizational policies and procedures to all employees
- Provides mentoring, training, guidance and coaching on cultural differences and practices to employees at all levels of the organization
- Develops and maintains knowledge of current trends and HR management best practices relating to D&I
- Develops, implements and oversees, in conjunction with other business leaders, enterprise-wide programs, practices and policies that lead to a diverse workforce
- Designs and oversees HR programs, practices and policies that encourage employees to take advantage of opportunities for working with those who possess a diverse set of experiences and backgrounds
Smith Assembly is recognized by Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) to offer 2.5 Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP®.