Hiring Revolution: How DEI Can Address Staffing Shortages -- Jan 13 PEN Breakfast & Webinar

The Performance Excellence Network — in partnership with the Wisconsin Center for Performance Excellence and the St. Paul Area Chamber — is pleased to host an online discussion on Thursday, January 13: “Hiring Revolution: How DEI Can Address Staffing Shortages.”  We are excited to feature Trina C. Olson and Alfonso T. Wenker, Team Dynamics’ co-founders, as speakers for this conversation.

Trina and Alfonso will share a six-part process outlined in their book, Hiring Revolution: A Guide to Disrupt Racism + Sexism in Hiring. They’ll share what they have done to find and hire teams of people that are incredibly diverse -- across race, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious tradition, age, ability, ethnicity, immigration experience, and more. Hiring Revolution is an invitation to stop, start, do more of, do less of, and do differently. It is a purposefully tactical approach to hiring the team you claim you want.

Through a thoughtful reimagining of team building, you will begin the process of reckoning with all the times and places where your hiring intent (find “the best” and “most qualified” workers) did not ultimately match your impact (inadvertently convincing yourself that white male workers were the best choice). The session explores small, medium, and large shifts that can transform your hiring practices toward a more equitable way of doing business. The session does not spend time pointing out everything done wrong in hiring days past -- the Hiring Revolution session will identify specific problems and pair each with a viable solution you could start implementing today.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how current hiring best practice produces racist and sexist results
• Learn new tools to disrupt individual and group race/gender bias when hiring
• Explore a revolutionized approach to hiring to truly achieve your race/gender hiring diversity goals

You may purchase their book Hiring Revolution: A Guide to Disrupt Racism + Sexism in Hiring here (and PEN will have a drawing to give away a couple during the session for those in attendance!).

This session is Thursday, Oct 7 from 8:00-9:00 CT (optional speed networking and mingling 7:45-8:00), using Zoom MEETING. Grab your coffee and breakfast, and join us for a rich discussion. Free for PEN/WCPE members; $20 for non-members.

Can’t make it live but interested in the content?  Register anyway: all registered attendees get a link to the recording after the session!