Self-Paced Training
Welcome to The Elevated Workplace!
In this self-paced Certificated course, you’ll gain the necessary tools and knowledge to strengthen your workplace culture, ensure compliance with key employment laws, and build an environment where everyone feels safe, supported, and included. As you move through each lesson, we encourage you to take notes and reflect on how these strategies can be applied in your own work environment. To officially receive your Certificated of Completion, please be sure to take the short quiz at the end of this course. The quiz is your opportunity to reinforce what you’ve learned and demonstrate your understanding.
Lesson 1: Setting The Stage & Understanding Terms
In this opening lesson, we’ll outline the course objectives and introduce foundational terms related to psychological safety and belonging. Participants will gain an understanding of why these concepts matter and how they set the stage for building inclusive, resilient workplace cultures.
Reflection Question
How do you participate in fostering a truly inclusive and psychologically safe work environment where your team members feel respected and a sense of belonging?
Lesson 2: Fostering Safety at Work
This lesson explores the connection between safety, belonging, and workplace success. You’ll learn how equity and inclusivity drive engagement, retention, and productivity, and discover strategies such as active listening and intentional policy-making to ensure your organization practices what it preaches.
Reflection Question
- Do employees at your organization feel safe and comfortable disclosing health conditions and disabilities that may require workplace modifications, adjustments or flexibility in the workplace?
- What are ways that you can cultivate this felt-safety at work?
Lesson 3: Cultural Competency & Psychological Safety
Cultural competency is essential to maintaining respectful and supportive workplaces. In this lesson, we’ll examine microaggressions, unconscious bias, and barriers to belonging, while highlighting how cultural awareness strengthens team dynamics, promotes fairness, and creates an environment where everyone can thrive.
Reflection Question
- How can your organization embrace intersectionality in the workplace?
- What are ways you can mitigate overt or unconscious bias as a leader or peer at work?
Lesson 4: Workplace Fairness & Compliance
A lack of awareness around workplace rights can result in costly consequences for both employers and employees. This lesson covers essential employment law protections, along with best practices that distinguish organizations committed to fairness, equity, and long-term success.
Reflection Question
- What are your workplaces inclusion, psychological safety and well-being goals and how do you currently work to meet them?
- How could a lack of inclusion and psychological safety impact your mission, brand or bottom line?
We hope these lessons have given you valuable insights into creating a more inclusive and legally sound workplace. To officially receive your Certificate of Completion, please be sure to take the short quiz at the end of this course. The quiz is your opportunity to reinforce what you’ve learned and demonstrate your understanding.
We look forward to seeing how you apply these practices in your workplace!
