How an Oil and Gas Company Sought to Change Attitudes and Behaviors
“We needed to bring our global diversity and inclusion initiative to life across Asia Pacific. Equilibria’s workshop helped our people understand unconscious bias and gave them a practical tool to pause before judging and choose to include.”
Business Unit President
The Challenge:
The client was rolling out a global initiative to promote diversity and inclusion and were looking for innovative ways to make the workforce in Asia Pacific embrace diversity through inclusion.
The Solution:
The HR & Internal Communications department worked closely with Equilibria to develop a one-day workshop that was deployed across the region over the space of a year. In that workshop, attendees were introduced to the concepts of E-Colors and Personal Intervention and were taught how to understand, embrace and leverage personality diversity within the organization. The workshop also helped team members better understand the concepts of unconscious bias and micro-inequities and how our brains have developed over the years to take short cuts when making people-related decisions. Personal Intervention was introduced as a tool to help them manage their natural tendencies with conscious awareness.
Results Obtained:
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12 one-day workshops conducted over the period of one year
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Employees gained a greater awareness around personality diversity and the difference between personality and character
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This helped them understand better the concepts of unconscious bias and micro-inequities as they learned to embrace and leverage diversity of thought
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Personal Intervention enabled them to become more mindful of their attitudes and behaviors and to press pause on stereotyping and making judgments and press play on being more inclusive
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