Words reflect workplace culture and can reinforce negative stereotypes around gender, race, and sexual orientation. Learn to stop using common words and phrases that harm the advancement of women, people of color, and LGBTQI people in the workplace.
The information in this project, in both English and French, serves to help you flip the script on harmful language, providing alternatives that don’t have such a high cost to your co-workers.
Infographic: Flip the Script: Transgender in the Workplace—Actions
Find out how to act so transgender colleagues can feel safe being their authentic selves at work.
Infographic: Flip the Script: Transgender in the Workplace—Words
Learn how to communicate so transgender colleagues know they are valued members of their teams.
Infographic: Flip the Script: Create Connections, Not Conflict, in Tough Conversations
Create opportunities for connections by using words that invite different perspectives and help people feel heard and valued.
Infographic: Flip the Script: Respond With Heart, Not Harm, in Tough Conversations
Respond with heart by staying engaged when discussing difficult topics, which helps to work collaboratively across differences.
Infographic: Flip the Script: Sexual Orientation in the Workplace
Stop using these common words and focus on performance and outcomes instead.
Webinar Recording: Flip the Script to Create LGBT-Inclusive Workplaces
This webinar provides an overview of common barriers to LGBT workers' advancement and the actions individuals and organizations can take to build an inclusion.
Infographic: Flip the Script: Men in the Workplace
Stop using common words and phrases that undermine men's ability to bring their whole authentic selves to work.
Infographic: Flip the Script: Race & Ethnicity in the Workplace
Use words that create inclusive environments where people feel both that they are valued and that they belong.
Infographic: Flip the Script: Women in the Workplace
Stop using these common words, which harm women's advancement opportunities, and focus on performance and outcomes instead.
Infographique: Un nouveau scenario femmes
Les mots sont le reflet de la culture du milieu de travail et peuvent renforcer les stéréotypes sexistes négatifs.
Infographique: Un nouveau scenario hommes
Cessez d'utiliser ces mots courants qui empêchent les hommes d'être authentiques au travail.
Infographique: Un nouveau scenario race et origine ethnique
Même avec les meilleures intentions, nous pouvons dire ou faire des choses qui sont vexantes et blessantes.