HR Trust Busters: Increasing awareness of and mitigating the negative impacts of unconscious biases and microaggressions in the workforce

The September NASHRM training is scheduled for Thursday, September 16, 2021. Training will be delivered using Zoom, an online audio and web conferencing platform. If you plan to attend, please tbrandsharpe@fairbanksnative.org by Tuesday, September 14, 2021, and the link will be sent to you.
 
Our start time is 11:45 a.m. for sign-in, with the program running from 12:00-1:00 p.m. This presentation has been approved for SHRM and HRCI (pending) credits.
 
Actions taken due to unconscious bias and microaggressions can negatively impact the work environment and lead to legal peril for organizations. For leaders to be effective, they need to be viewed as trustworthy, aware, and open to discussions about their effects. Traci Gatewood will provide training that increases participants' understanding and awareness of how unconscious bias and microaggressions lead to toxic work environments, the risks associated with downplaying or minimizing their impacts, and what can and should be done to address them at work.
 
Traci Gatewood, SHRM-SCP, holds a Master of Science in Business Organizational Management with a Concentration in Human Resource Management and a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology. She is a Certified Practitioner of the MBTI® Step I™ and Step II™ Instruments. Traci has over twenty (20) years of organizational, personnel, budget, project, and grants management experience. She also has extensive experience in strategic and project planning and training development and delivery. Traci is an active board member of several organizations and commissions. She currently serves on the Alaska Behavioral Health Board. Traci is the Chair of the FNSB Salaries and Emoluments Commission and serves on the City of Fairbanks' Fact-Finding Commission and its Discretionary Fund Committee. She also serves on the Northern Alaska Society for Human Resource Management board as the Programs & Certification Director.
 
She provides services for a variety of national, state, and local organizations, including but not limited to, Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, Anchorage Museum, Classic Alaska Trading/Big Ray's Inc., Chena-Goldstream Fire & Rescue, Golden Valley Electric Association, Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce, Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival, Kinross Fort Knox, and UAF Development and Alumni Relations Office. Clients find her to be exceptional because of her communication skills.  She is direct, unflinchingly honest, insightful, and sensitive.  She offers clear-eyed analysis and expects excellence of herself and others.