Overview
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Learn to incorporate changes into how you communicate at work, so that you can work toward overcoming bias and creating an inclusive workplace.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Inclusive language
- Inclusive language matters
- Optimizing workplace culture
- Boosting linguistic awareness
- More than dictionary definitions
- Framing and word choice
- Flavor of words
- Perspective taking
- Inclusive language evolves
- Language that reflects reality
- Language that doesn't demean
- Language that respects others
- Importance and pronunciation
- Impacts of misnaming
- Pet names, diminutives, and nicknames
- Replacing he or she
- Presenting your own pronouns
- Importance of gender-neutral language
- Gendered language to avoid
- Staying up to date
- Start making changes
