Microaggressions in the Workplace

About Course

Create a more respectful and inclusive workplace with this training on microaggressions designed for modern professionals. This course helps you understand the subtle comments and actions that can undermine colleagues, damage team dynamics, and create hostile work environments. Through practical lessons and real-world scenarios, you’ll learn to recognize, address, and prevent these harmful behaviors.

Our training on microaggressions begins with foundational concepts, exploring how small, seemingly harmless remarks carry underlying offensive messages about race, gender, sexuality, disability, and other personal attributes. You’ll discover how these paper-cut interactions accumulate over time, creating significant psychological distress and impacting workplace productivity. The course examines three primary forms—microassaults, microinsults, and microinvalidations—giving you the language to identify problematic behaviors in your environment.

Effective training on microaggressions goes beyond awareness. You’ll gain practical strategies for responding when microaggressions occur, whether you’re the target or an ally supporting colleagues. The course explores intersectionality and how compounded effects impact those with multiple marginalized identities. You’ll learn proven techniques for addressing incidents directly, documenting patterns, and creating support networks within your organization.

This training on microaggressions emphasizes prevention through culture change. You’ll discover best practices for fostering inclusive environments, implementing effective policies, and building ongoing diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. The course includes detailed workplace scenarios that illuminate common microaggressions, helping you develop the awareness needed to interrupt harmful patterns and promote respectful communication across all levels of your organization.

What You Will Learn

This training on microaggressions equips you with practical skills to transform your workplace culture. You’ll master the ability to identify subtle forms of discrimination that often go unnoticed, understand their cumulative psychological and emotional effects, and recognize how they damage team cohesion and organizational success. The course provides actionable strategies for responding to microaggressions as both a target and an ally, including effective communication techniques, documentation methods, and escalation procedures.

Beyond individual responses, this training on microaggressions prepares you to be a change agent in your organization. You’ll learn how to implement policies and practices that minimize microaggressions, create support systems for affected employees, and foster ongoing diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. Through detailed scenario analysis, you’ll develop the critical thinking skills needed to navigate complex workplace situations with sensitivity, respect, and confidence.

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Course Content

Training on Microaggressions

  • 1. Training on Microaggressions Course Introduction
  • 2. Microaggressions and Their Impact
  • 3. Recognizing Microaggressions
  • 4. Microaggressions Related to Specific Groups
  • 5. Responding to Microaggressions
  • 6. Preventing Microaggressions
  • 7. Building a Supportive Environment
  • 8. Microaggression Scenarios
  • 9. Training on Microaggressions Course Conclusion

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