REIB Bold 2 DAY Description & Schedule: REIB Initiative

Course Details

Redesigned from our comprehensive virtual series into an intensive two-day in-person collaborative, this immersive learning experience empowers supervisors and managers to center REIB principles in their leadership practice. Through cohort-based learning, participants explore workplace well-being, communication across differences, and cultural humility while building meaningful peer relationships. This collaborative equips leaders with practical strategies to foster psychologically safe, inclusive teams and implement equitable management practices that drive organizational change.

The REIB Bold: Learning Collaborative is designed to leverage the power of cohort shared learning and managerial skills building. The collaborative is designed for managers and supervisors motivated to strengthen their knowledge and skills to incorporate REIB practices and procedures into their day-to-day operations. The Learning Collaborative will bring together county CalWORKs and CalFresh manager and supervisor cohorts from a specified region to share and exchange knowledge, skills, resources, challenges and successes, to promote the effective integration of REIB practices among their staff.

Sessions

Burnout, quiet-quitting, and great resignation are all indicators that we are overdue when it comes to shifting how we work. In this session, you will get to discuss the direct impacts of organizational culture on your own and your team’s well-being. Using the Surgeon General’s Workplace Mental Health and Well-Being Frameworks, you will explore and identify the ways you can prioritize and lead a shift to a more equitable, sustainable, and human-centered workplace culture.

We will also take a deep dive into Emotional Intelligence (EQ) as a key skill for learning how to navigate an ever-shifting world and culture. It is a highly useful and critical skill in your day-to-day leading teams, managing systems, and serving program participants. In this session, you will get to discuss and explore the importance of EQ in the workplace and be given tools to help you strengthen the skills needed to manage a healthier, more empathetic, and more generative work culture where collaboration and mutual support can thrive.

In the U.S., we are in such an important moment where we are having very challenging and honest conversations about the historical and lasting impacts of power, privilege, microaggressions, and implicit bias in the workplace. These conversations are helping to reveal important ways in which our systems need to shift in order to support all of us fully, and we understand that these conversations are not always easy to engage in. In this session, we want to help build up your confidence and empower you to not only engage in these conversations but be able to lead shifts within your own teams. As a cohort, you will discuss the impacts of these harmful systems (power, privilege, racism, etc.) in your day-to-day, identify practical and meaningful ways to shift work culture and practice the skills needed to create brave space to empower your team to become a part of the solution, particularly the skill of cultural humility.

Learning Outcomes

Constructively engage staff with tools to foster psychological safety and brave spaces for themselves and their colleagues, to learn about and practice REIB principles in the workplace. (REIB Goals 2, 3)
Demonstrate an understanding of the historical and present-day impact of racism on society and within the workplace to effectively develop and implement equitable management practices and procedures. (REIB Goals 4, 5)
Develop a multifaceted understanding of power dynamics within the workplace and when engaging with participants.
Recognize and acknowledge their own positional and personal power to actionize positive strategies for intentional shifts on workplace culture and climate. (REIB Goals 1, 2)