The Importance of Cognitive Diversity
Ben Wilberforce-Ritchie
While diversity is a priority for many organizations, Ben delves deeper into the concept, specifically focusing on cognitive diversity. Organizational challenges are plenty, such as promoting workplace equity, fostering inclusivity, building sustainable businesses, and adapting to evolving employee work-life balances.
Given these challenges, there is a growing need for thought solutions, and encouraging cognitive diversity among employees becomes crucial.
This session will leave you with greater confidence in the unique value of diverse perspectives, and how to put these perspectives to good use in your day-to-day roles.
During the expert session, Ben Wilberforce-Ritchie engages participants through a series of interactive activities and Q&A using Mentimeter, an interactive engagement tool.
While diversity is a priority for many organizations, Ben delves deeper into the concept by specifically focusing on cognitive diversity. Cognitive diversity emphasizes the inclusion of different ways of thinking, problem-solving approaches, and perspectives within a team.
In this session, Ben explores how embracing cognitive diversity can address various organizational challenges, such as promoting workplace equity, fostering inclusivity, building sustainable businesses, and adapting to evolving employee work-life balances. By understanding and leveraging cognitive diversity, organizations can develop more innovative and effective solutions to these challenges.
Participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of the concept of Cognitive Diversity, exploring its three key themes and their significance in ensuring business sustainability. Ben will discuss how cognitive diversity can help organizations think outside the box, identify and overcome entrenched beliefs, and find deeper meaning in their work.
Through practical examples and interactive discussions, attendees will learn how to harness diverse perspectives to drive innovation and enhance organizational performance.
This session aims to leave participants with greater confidence in the unique value of diverse perspectives and how to put these perspectives to good use in their day-to-day roles. By the end of the session, attendees will have developed practical strategies to promote cognitive diversity within their teams, leading to more inclusive and effective decision-making processes.
This knowledge will empower participants to create a more dynamic and resilient workplace culture that is better equipped to navigate the complexities of the modern business environment.
From the survey every participant gets when the session ends, in their own words.
Excellent speaker. Very well structured. THANK YOU
Why my ideas/remarks are sometimes misunderstood. That we/I have to work on trust, and some tool on how to do that. Thanks
Thank you again and hope to see you again in the future!
Overcoming the Malthusian crisis of thought. Wonderful session of cognitive diversity.
A great session with a lot of interaction, which is great. But: there was a lot of mentioning of Nazis (Camus during Paris/France occupation by Nazis and Frankl who survived concentration camps). Maybe this makes some German colleagues feel uncomfortable?
Alomst everything is interesting, it's just about the presenter. The most difficult is normally to find time to participate lie so super that you record the sessions.
Good if earlier sessions from this diversity week are made available offline (if they were recorded), since sometimes there are time clashes.
It was totally different from what I thought it was going to be and therefore quite interesting. I also liked the philosophical view.
It is interactive, and the block above says exactly how for this session. Nobody has to speak up who does not want to: the chat and the polls carry most of it, and the questions can come in anonymously.
While diversity is a priority for many organizations, Ben delves deeper into the concept, specifically focusing on cognitive diversity. Organizational challenges are plenty, such as promoting workplace equity, fostering inclusivity, building sustainable businesses, and adapting to evolving employee work-life balances. It is built for a general working audience: no prior knowledge is assumed, and people who already know the subject get the research and the practical side rather than an introduction.
Ben Wilberforce-Ritchie is one of the experts we auditioned ourselves, and we produce every session so we see how each one lands. Participants rate this session 4.2 out of 5, across 105 responses, and rate Ben personally 4.6 out of 5.
It runs 45 min / 15 min: the talk, then live questions. All you do is pick a date. We brief Ben, produce the session, host and moderate it, run the Q&A, and send you the report within an hour of the end.
A team, a department, an employee network or every single employee at once, with no cap and no per-seat price. It runs inside your own Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, or on a branded page we build. No integration, no login, no company device or e-mail.
The session is delivered in English. You can add high accuracy live subtitles in 8, 16 or 24 languages, so everyone follows in their own. That is a paid option, priced by the number of languages you need.
No, and that is by design. There is nothing to install, nothing to integrate and no connection to your systems, so there is nothing for IT to validate: we join your own Teams, Zoom or Meet as a guest speaker, or we host a page and your people open a link. No software, no accounts, and no data of yours that we can reach. It is why hundreds of companies, among them some of the largest technology and financial firms in the world, were able to start within a day.
We never receive or hold personal data about your employees. Because the session runs in your own environment, attendance and identity stay with you, and what we report back is aggregated: numbers, ratings and survey answers, not people. That is also why IT approval usually takes minutes rather than weeks.
You keep the recording and can share it internally. You also get attendance over time, participant ratings for the content and the speaker, the survey answers, and the topics your people asked for next.
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