Latest Culturalcompetency Podcast Episodes
2218 Responsible to What
BEHAVE - August 16, 2022 12:30 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings“If I’m not well, I don’t listen well, I can’t be curious well.” The enormity of injustice can keep the best of us from taking action if we don't slow down + notice what's needed right in front of us. Alfonso + Trina take 15 minutes to talk about how they come back to focusing on their own res...
2217 Committees at Work
BEHAVE - August 02, 2022 12:30 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings“I like being a part of groups that know why they’re together and know how long they’re going to be together.” Our goal-focused hosts take an episode to talk about patterns around groups + committees in workplaces. When do folks form a group? Do they know their goals, how long they need to exi...
Rerun 2102 Insurrection + Truth + Action
BEHAVE - June 28, 2022 12:30 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings“It’s important to acknowledge that this wild stuff is happening. We cannot make it small. And we also don’t need to decide that the way we feel is how everyone else feels.” Alfonso + Trina talk about how they felt watching a white, militant insurrection at the United States Capitol. They shar...
2216 Pride Month Primer
BEHAVE - June 21, 2022 12:30 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings“It’s not important that we know all the words. What’s important is that when someone tells us what words they use we thank them and use those words for them, too.” It's Pride Month! Trina + Alfonso parse out Sexuality, Gender Identity, Gender Expression, + Biological Sex. They also speak in...
2215 Fixation on Education
BEHAVE - June 08, 2022 12:30 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings“What we’re trying to trouble is the idea that there’s a singular way to get ready to do any particular job.” Trina + Alfonso talk about their own education + work backgrounds + then get into the actual impact had by having degree requirements included in job postings.
2214 Where work happens
BEHAVE - May 24, 2022 12:30 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings“A bunch of the workplace norms we practice now in the US were developed in a time when we did very different work.” Our hosts dig into the current conversation around where people need to be in order to do their work. Mental health, care giving, access to consistent technology, + so many more...
2213 Ethnicity, Race, USA
BEHAVE - May 17, 2022 13:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings"There are times when a focus on ethnicity keeps us from understanding the unearned advantages that come with whiteness." Alfonso + Trina dive into how exploring ethnicity can bring tremendous advantages + disadvantages when doing intercultural capacity building work. They name how race + ethn...
2212 Roe, Abortion, + Work
BEHAVE - May 10, 2022 12:30 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings“What this would mean is that more people with uteruses are going to die because they don’t have access to safe abortions.” Trina + Alfonso respond to the leaked news suggesting that Roe v. Wade could be overturned by the US Supreme Court. They talk about navigating things that have been polit...
Ep 2211 with Kelly Fluharty
BEHAVE - April 27, 2022 13:15 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings“How are we going to thread and embed equity principles?” Trina flys solo but welcomes in Kelly Fluharty to organizational change, equity, + Healthcare. Kelly brings her perspective as a white, middle-class woman working in healthcare in rural Minnesota to talk about how her organization fosters...
2210 Meet Jovan Sage
BEHAVE - April 19, 2022 12:07 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsTrina + Alfonso welcome Jovan Sage onto the show. Jovan is a guide, healing facilitator, doula, alchemist, plant tender, medicine maker, and has deep experience organizing community. Sage talks about being Black, queer, & using ancestral growing practices in Savannah, GA. This episode features i...
Ep 2209 Real Goal Setting
BEHAVE - April 05, 2022 12:30 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings“Quite often, we experience folks really believing that their workplace culture and habits and patterns are happening to them.” The difference between what we want to do + what we're trying to change is where goals come alive so Alfonso + Trina give some goal setting frameworks. What future do...
2208 Listen Question_Leaving Well
BEHAVE - March 15, 2022 12:30 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings"Culture change requires community organizing." Trina + Alfonso respond to an anonymous listener question. A white, straight, man who helped move some internal equity work forward at an organization has changed organizations but still feels connected to the work + isn't sure if he should stay ...
2207 Forever Work
BEHAVE - March 08, 2022 13:30 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings“When I make that shift in behavior + thinking, what’s next? Not, now I’m done.” Trina + Alfonso share a zippy, lightening round episode focused on continuing to build + learn in equity work rather than wanting to reach a finish line. [email protected] Ask BEHAVE
Ep 2206 Unsafe vs Uncomfortable
BEHAVE - March 01, 2022 14:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings“Doing new stuff is uncomfortable… until it’s a pattern.” One of the challenges of discomfort is that it can remind us of other kinds of pain, other kinds of trauma, other kinds of fear, and sometimes it can remind us of times we have felt unsafe. Alfonso + Trina share some ways of noticing wh...
Ep 2205 Race is always present
BEHAVE - February 15, 2022 13:39 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings“Of course, any time smart women of color put out brilliant content, there is a critique from all angles.” Our cohosts dig into an oft-occurring pattern where conversations centering race are met with a desire to focus solely on economic solutions.
Ep 2204 Q + A Time!
BEHAVE - February 08, 2022 13:30 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings“We are not subscribing to a false binary where you should be hiring people you dislike.” Alfonso + Trina take questions from listeners + share answers, suggestions, + stories. Check out our Tools page HERE
2203 Rigorous Discomfort
BEHAVE - January 25, 2022 14:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings"It almost feels like folks with do anything to not talk about race and gender." Can you use your skill at studying the past or picturing the future and notice what’s happening in the present? Trina + Alfonso do a zippy episode looking at the ways we get excited to dig into our own marginali...
2202 Antiracist is not Anti white
BEHAVE - January 18, 2022 14:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings“When we’re defending something there is likely something worth defending. But likely not at the scale or with the volume or with the intensity that we want to defend.” Trina + Alfonso dive into the ways some folks equate antiracist with a loss of something they value. They talk about the ways...
Ep 2201 Season 4 Kick Off
BEHAVE - January 04, 2022 18:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsTo start the 4th Season of BEHAVE, Trina + Alfonso each share three areas or issues they are giving some attention as we shift into the new year.
Ep 2129 Dress Code Nonsense
BEHAVE - December 21, 2021 13:30 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsAlfonso + Trina hop into a snappy episode focused on getting clear on goals when considering how worker's bodies are policed. They focus on an overemphasis on cleavage + dreadlocks in workplace policy.
Ep 2128 Leadership Readiness
BEHAVE - December 14, 2021 13:30 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings"Folks tend to try and think about and imagine all the possible race and gender mistakes." Trina interview Alfonso about the ways workplace leaders try to feel ready for what's coming + how they could shift what readiness really means. They share a futurist tool + name some common mistakes bos...
Ep 2127 Hiring Revolution is HERE!
BEHAVE - November 30, 2021 13:30 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings"The old way of doing things isn’t producing the results that we want." Trina + Alfonso's new book, Hiring Revolution: A Guide to Disrupt Racism + Sexism in Hiring, is officially on book shelves! In this episode of the podcast, they share an overview of the what's and why's of the book. Che...
Ep 2126 Quick Fixes
BEHAVE - November 23, 2021 13:30 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings"It’s not knowledge, it’s about the ability to think different and act differently." Our co-hosts dig into why + how organizational change work is not about bystander training or a one off seminar to get you ready for every possible scenario. They share five core areas where we have to build m...
Ep 2125 w/ Manjari Raman
BEHAVE - November 09, 2021 14:30 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings"Don’t look for the perfect candidate, look for the perfectly capable candidate.” Alfonso + Trina welcome Program Director + Senior Researcher for the Harvard Business School’s Project on Managing the Future of Work + The project on US competitiveness, Manjari Raman. They discuss the recent...
Ep 2124 Immigration + the Workplace
BEHAVE - October 19, 2021 12:30 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsIn this mini episode, Alfonso + Trina spend time on how workplaces could approach finding + welcoming in new workers who have been forced out of their home countries.
Ep 2123 Days of Recognition
BEHAVE - October 12, 2021 12:30 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings“The reason we need these celebratory moments, is because of the legacy of violence, it’s because of the legacy of white supremacy, it’s because of the legacy of genocide and colonization and slavery.” Alfonso + Trina are joined by Team Dynamics' Storyteller Alfred Walking Bull to dig into thi...
Ep 2122 Census through the mindsets
BEHAVE - September 28, 2021 13:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings“Data does not, in face, change hearts + minds.” Alfonso + Trina dig into the various ways we both take in and absorb the latest information gathered from the 2020 census. Alfonso breaks down developmental mindsets + then they both move through how each mindset is likely taking in and pushing ...
Ep 2121 Noticing Joy
BEHAVE - September 21, 2021 12:30 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings“There has always been a mixture of pain and celebration at the same time.” Trina + Alfonso take some time to notice what's bringing them joy in work + life. They talk about building capacity to experience joy & the importance of joy in justice work.
Ep 2120 Assumptions About Place
BEHAVE - September 14, 2021 12:30 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings“If I’m being invited in, my comfort may not always be central.” Urban, Rural, and Suburban areas are often pitted against one another politically. Alfonso + Trina take these perceptions about place + share some of their own work on noticing + disruption assumptions. They offer up tools + ways...
Ep 2119 Hiring + Fairness
BEHAVE - August 24, 2021 13:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings“If you want to diversify your candidate pool across lines of race and gender, you’re going to have to diversify your questions.” Trina + Alfonso share a peak at some myth-busting featured in the upcoming 'Hiring Revolution' book. This conversation focuses on the ways a focus on fairness in hi...
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