Dealing with Microaggression as an Employee
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
Course Description
Overview
This course explains how to confidently address microagression when it's directed towards you and when you witness it towards others.
Syllabus
Introduction
- An experience as a marginalized employee
- Learning break: Toni's experience of a workplace microaggression
- Defining microaggression
- Defining three types of microaggression
- Recognizing that your experience is valid
- Identifying internalized microaggression
- Seeing microaggressions as "death by a thousand cuts"
- Creating psychological safety
- Addressing past microaggressions is your empowered choice
- Addressing past microaggressions directly with the aggressor
- Escalating past microaggressions to a trusted third party
- Recognize microaggressions
- Pause before reacting to microaggressions
- Reflect on whether to speak up or remain silent
- Consider what to do if you witness microaggressions against others
- Start, stop, and continue: A framework for moving forward
Taught by
Toni Howard Lowe
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