A Better Workplace

In the season finale of A Better Workplace, Beth Chandler describes the approach her team takes to diversity training at YW Boston, a non-profit organization dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all. She provides practical advice that can be applied in any workplace, like how to get buy-in across an organization and why employee mandates are often ineffective.

According to Lillian Medville, "The definition of privilege is an unearned advantage ... It’s the freedom to not think or worry about certain things." Learn why Lillian created the card game Your Privilege Is Showing and how you can identify and acknowledge privilege in a way that invites others to do the same.

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When it comes to intent versus impact, it’s more important to understand how you’ve negatively impacted someone than to be concerned with your good intention. Jane and Colin explore how workplaces can encourage open dialogue and provide tips on how to receive feedback when your behavior negatively impacts a coworker.

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Toni Howard Lowe explains the differences between the three most common types of microaggression, and the impacts they have on the lived experiences of historically underrepresented people.

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Code-switching is the process of switching back and forth between different styles of speaking, mannerisms, and ways of acting when going from one situation to another. Get a better understanding of this long-lived experience for people of color, and learn how company policies (written or not) can impact the work employees of color have to do to fit in.

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Jane and Colin's conversation with Stephanie Battaglino features a pair of powerful excerpts from Stephanie's book, Reflections from Both Sides of the Glass Ceiling: Finding My True Self in Corporate America. She describes her experience as a trans woman in the workplace and explains how offering your preferred pronouns can help build a more inclusive culture.

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From the legal aspect of creating a code of conduct to the details you should consider throughout the process, this episode covers everything you’d want to know about creating your own. Plus, hear why Buffer’s Code of Conduct became a major source of inspiration for writing our own at Wistia.

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Chrysta shares her experience with clients who feel a responsibility to transform the world when they should really be focused on transforming their own organizations. That's why the first step is to identify your north star, she explains. Chrysta challenges clients to ask themselves how they can put the dignity and humanity of people first. She even explains why she avoids using the word 'marginalized' — and what she uses instead.

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Learn how double standards and stereotypes can make everyday activities, like writing an email, challenging tasks to navigate for members of equity-seeking groups. Plus, follow along as Jane gives Colin a quiz designed to help women excel in the workplace — you might learn something about your own career!

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Jane and Colin share how they started discussing diversity, equity and inclusion while commuting to the Wistia office together. Plus, Jane explains the process Wistia used to develop a new compensation framework.

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