Be a Destination Employer: Leadership Lessons Regarding Implicit Bias and Mental Health Awareness Through the Lessons of Ted Lasso
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The necessity to attract top talent is at an all-time high. Your competitors for profits remain your fiercest competitors for human capital. Until and unless your leadership understands the importance of mental health awareness and, not only recognizing the existence of implicit bias, but developing strategies to move beyond awareness, you simply will not be in position to hire and retain the best. Through the lessons of the wonderfully entertaining and people-centric Ted Lasso, this session will examine how crucial mitigating against implicit bias and paying attention to mental health awareness have become in our goal to become a destination employer. However, it will not stop with simple recognition. Because, after all, would Ted stop at identifying an issue without creating a solution. In that vein, this program also will provide strategies in the context of implicit bias and mental health awareness to ensure that your existing and prospective employees see your organization as the place to be! Come to this session, and ... BELIEVE!
Learning Objectives:
- Identify sources of implicit bias and provide strategies to mitigate against it in an effort to drive employee retention and recruitment goals.
- Examine why leaders must embrace organizational mental health awareness and provide tools of how to do so.
- Develop ways to either change or solidify organizational culture in a way best to provide an emotionally healthy working environment.
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Michael S. Cohen, J.D.
Michael S. Cohen is a partner in Duane Morris’ Employment, Labor, Benefits and Immigration Practice Group. Michael concentrates his practice in the areas of employment law training and counseling. He has trained and counseled employers throughout the country on subjects including harassment prevention; diversity, equity and inclusion; combatting implicit bias; performance management; discipline and discharge; hiring and recruiting practices; performance evaluations; FMLA, ADA and FLSA compliance; leave of absence policies; LGBTQ+ issues in the workplace; substance abuse testing; workplace violence; records retention; conducting background checks; and more. Michael also has conducted investigations into claims of harassment and discrimination and has drafted employee handbooks, employment agreements, non-compete agreements and post-termination agreements. Michael regularly conducts in excess of 200 trainings each year. He has represented clients throughout the country in EEO and other administrative proceedings.
Michael has been cited as a national authority on employment issues by The New York Times, The Associated Press, USA Today, MSNBC.com, HR Magazine, SHRM On-Line, Employment Law 360, Inside Counsel Magazine, as well as many other publications. Michael serves as an Advisory Board Member of GenHERation and as a Board Member of Serve, Inc. Michael is a 1997 magna cum laude graduate of Temple University Beasley School of Law and a cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.