TRAINING & WORKSHOPS
SERVICES
Partnering with Evolution, we work with the best facilitators in the game to provide training that doesn't just tick the box but delivers real tools to address real challenges. With workshops geared towards teams, managers, and C-suite leaders, we work with companies large and small to build skills, introduce new information, and facilitate transformational change.
GROW THEIR ORGANIZATIONS
WITH EQUITY AND IMPACT
Shiso provides structured yet flexible guidance for companies to align their values and practices; creates customized training based on industry best practices, rigorous and holistic research, and empathetic engagement; and coaches all levels of employees. Shiso has supported clients across industries and sectors to grow their organizations equitably and with impact. We have vast experience working within organizations, small and large, at varying levels of complexity for equity-centered leadership and team development.
See what types of workshops we offer below! If you don’t see what you need, let us know, and we’ll create it together.
WORKSHOPS
TEAM BUILDING
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Workplace research shows that the most effective teams across sectors and industries conscientiously develop psychological safety as a core function of their work environment. What does psychological safety mean in practice, and how can teams proactively and measurably develop it? Through a facilitated group exercise and dialogue, we’ll define language, reflect on strengths and areas for growth, and develop concrete next steps towards strengthening psychological safety and showing up to work as our fullest and most authentic selves.
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The term collaboration gets used constantly in the workplace, meaning different things to different people and inevitably resulting in mismatched expectations and outcomes. Your work as a team will strengthen by starting on the ground floor to clearly define what collaboration means and what’s needed for collaboration to be inspired, effective, and meaningful. We’ll walk through the differences between cooperation, coordination and collaboration and use case studies to explore how best to identify, protect, resource and energize genuine collaboration within your team.
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Effective communication and developing collective accountability are the foundation of teamwork, yet there is rarely space to develop skills and grow into stronger communicators and more accountable colleagues in the day-to-day of work. How can we be both more courageous and compassionate in our communication at work? What does accountability mean in our work together, and how are we developing metrics that are actionable and achievable to ensure our intentions are actualized? Each individual will develop a clearer understanding of how to challenge themselves to show up authentically and as an accountability partner within their team.
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This workshop incorporates both individual reflection and interactive group sharing to build rapport, understanding and empathy within teams. Through exercises ranging from the irreverent to the incisive, team members will have the space to reflect upon themselves and their perspectives, share aspects of themselves and their work styles, and learn more about their colleagues beyond their roles and functions. Participants will leave with a more holistic understanding of themselves and their team, how and why people work the way they do, and how they can better collaborate together.
DEIA PROGRAMS
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This training will reinforce and affirm why inclusion is integral to a healthy company culture, and how to improve upon existing inclusion structures. Team members will have the space to reflect upon themselves and their perspectives. Staff will leave with a collaboratively established set of common values and language around structural inequality, bias, intersectionality, and DEIA, as well as community practices for communication, decision-making, and collaboration. Shiso will work with your team to design materially-relevant scenarios for examples and roleplaying, such as cross-functional collaboration, script development, and contract negotiations for clients.
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Allow us to conduct a facilitated team meeting with your DEIA group, or relevant internal stakeholders, to support the integration of your DEIA goals, including improved inclusion and people management. We will assess and evaluate your DEIA goals, their fulfillment and impact, including administration of staff and focus group surveys, key informant interviews, and qualitative and quantitative analysis.
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As a growing company, it’s common to face challenges when integrating new teams and generations of employees. Let Shiso provide guidance on best practices around intentional diverse hiring. These trainings will help create foundational knowledge and awareness of different communities' needs, and improve interpersonal relationships and collaboration. Your hiring team will be ready to hit the ground running with a newly established inclusive language, and equity-minded processes.
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Let’s go beyond buzzwords and define what it means to make our workplace more genuine and courageous in its conversations and initiatives around racial and gender equity. This series of workshops combine education, discussion, reflection and action plans to discuss concepts and realities – from microaggressions to unconscious bias to representation vs. tokenization – in a practical and thoughtful way to inform and strengthen your work internally and impact at large.
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Research shows that several practices exist to disrupt bias and ensure equity throughout the hiring process, particularly through widened sourcing and recruiting, and re-evaluating and standardizing job descriptions, interviews, and calibration. Through this training, attendees will learn what implicit bias is, identify how it can show up in the hiring process, and internalize the tools to disrupt it.
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Research shows that several practices exist to disrupt bias and ensure equity throughout the hiring process, particularly through widened sourcing and recruiting, and re-evaluating and standardizing job descriptions, interviews, and calibration. Through this training, attendees will learn structured interview methods to minimize bias, and predict candidate performance, even for jobs that are themselves unstructured.
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We provide our clients with historical, cultural, and sociological contexts and practical systems to elevate and expand your narrative work. Be it pitches, treatments, scripts, productions, or more, we will help you to reflect and uplift authenticity, diversity, and inclusivity while honoring the integrity and intention of your vision. We ask questions based on curiosity and opportunity, not interrogation. We make incisive edits with the goal of refining instead of remaking a story. We provide qualitative and quantitative feedback to inform decision-makers. Finally, we supply teams with a guidebook to internalize and systematize the DEI lens.
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
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Shiso will conduct an immersive workshop experience that explores culture and identity by centering on the future of your company. Learn strategies and frameworks that have the greatest impact on your audience, while building a high-performing team through organizational culture and identity foundations in order to activate actionable strategies. Our facilitator will provide interactive training that includes participant dialogue, practical tools and techniques to explore organizational culture, identity, and vision, and exercises to practice newly learned frameworks both during and after the session.
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This workshop will guide your team to articulate and pressure-test your vision, mission, the population you serve, and the impact you seek to have. Through verbal and written dialogue and reflection, visual brainstorming, and diagram creation, and by applying Shiso's intersectional equity lens to a time-tested, research-based framework, the typical Theory of Change exercise is elevated and deepened to center the unique and meaningful cultural influences and diverse identities that comprise your team and stakeholder communities. At the end of this workshop, you will have a written and visual depiction of your vision, mission, and core audience and demographic.
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This exercise will provide your organization with a fundraising strategy and plan that will make even your far-reaching goals a reality. Shiso will provide the structure and parameters for a generative brainstorm and discussion that captures all relevant and potential relationships, formats, components, themes, goals, and deadlines. At the end of this exercise, your team will have a written fundraising strategy and plan ready to execute.
WORKPLACE ENRICHMENT
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Let Shiso handle your internal and external communications needs. Our team’s expertise includes, but is not limited to:
Deliverable creation, such as drafting policies, handbooks, documents, templates, communications, and reports.
Document creation, such as drafting policies, handbooks, documents, templates, communications, and reports (Includes review sessions, revisions, and digital publication)
Speechwriting
Public Commentary
Crisis Communications
Congressional Testimonies
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This workshop will provide guidance on how to function as an ERG within your company’s structure, make recommendations to the organization (including working with Leadership Team), and interface with the larger company, and how they interface with the DEIB Committee. Learn culturally competent facilitation strategies, communication best practices, and research-based human resources and organizational development strategies.
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Work with our People team to create an ERG committee framework that empowers and encourages ERGs to share concerns and make recommendations without putting the work on them to execute it. Together, we will create benchmarks to measure equitable engagement and reception.
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This workshop allows your internal stakeholders to create a playbook for ERGs by defining roles and responsibilities and identifying structures and providing formation guidance.
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his training provides capacity building to newly identified ERG leaders in a few areas: running effective ERG meetings, working with leadership, working with your community, and defining mission, vision, objectives and goal setting.
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Shiso provides regular office hours, and 1:1 meetings available to any staff member to provide personal support and advising on DEIA issues.
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This two-part leadership training is for managers and partners on how to manage people in addition to managing a portfolio, centering professional development, bias busting, fostering an environment of psychological safety, and building capacity. First, we will establish a common understanding of the above topics, conduct an intake of challenges, and workshop practices. Then, together we will review the psychological safety assessment results and co-create people management pledges.
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Retention rates are crucial indicators of inclusiveness, psychological safety, and a productive company culture. In this training, we will identify factors that improve retention, investigate conditions that contribute to attrition, and discuss how these factors and conditions may have disparate impacts on employees.