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Key Learnings

During the 2021-2022 academic year, MBA and Executive MBA students submitted 3,038 post-event reflection forms. Below are key insights that students shared, including insights, key learnings, and how they will apply the skills to CBS and beyond.

2021-2022 Insights Reports: All event organizers can now download the Insights Reports for Fall 2021, Spring 2022, and Year-End Review.

2022-2023 Insights Reports: Coming soon!

Event Insights

  • Remembering past occurrences of cultural insensitive comments and actions.
  • Develop and hone listening skills to become a better ally
  • Difficulty in fully understanding various experiences due to homogenous work environment
  • Tools on how to recognize privilege
  • Self-Reflection on personal identity
  • Reconsidering the goals and responsibilities of leaders

Key Learnings

  • Learning how to be a better ally to peers.
  • Changing behavior to not make assumptions about others' culture and experiences.
  • Reducing assumptions that others know the importance of an inclusive environment or what to do to in difficult moments.
  • Diversity is not the same as inclusion and by itself, the environment is unlikely to be supportive to various experiences.

Applying Skills to CBS and Beyond

  • Practice being an ally at CBS to peers and at places of work.Be more acknowledging of privilege and being sensitive to boundaries
  • Recognize and acknowledge privilege and being sensitive to boundariesWork to accept feedback from my peer, team, and manager
  • Accept feedback from from peers  and professors because there is room for everyone to grow.
  • Practice intentional and active listening with speaking with peers.
  • Ask more intentional questions in an effort to grow in learning more about DEI and various backgrounds.

Average Event Ratings

During the 2021-2022 academic year, MBA and Executive MBA students submitted 3,038 post-event reflection forms. Students were asked to rate the event across several dimensions including content, speaker, duration, learning outcome, and likelihood to recommend on a scale of 1 (lowest) to 5 (highest). The results are illustrated below.

Essential Inclusive Leadership Skills

"Understanding Identity and Perspective Taking" and "Creating an Inclusive Environment" were the most frequently covered skills while "Addressing Systemic Inequity" and "Mitigating Bias and Prejudice" are the two essential skills were the least likely to be covered by events.

Improvement Insights

During the 2021-2022 academic year, MBA and Executive MBA students submitted 3,038 post-event reflection forms. Below are key insights that students shared about what would help improve their PPIL experience.

Pre-Event

  • More enhanced descriptions of events including event summaries and bios of featured guest speakers.
  • Opportunities to submit questions to guest speakers in advance.
  • Clearer understanding of what essential inclusive leadership skills the event is covering.

During Event

  • More real-world examples of guest speakers navigating through DEI-related experiences.
  • Examples of successful and unsuccessful DEI efforts (equity efforts improving outcomes, how lack of inclusion hurts businesses).
  • More opportunity to ask questions and interact with guest speakers.
  • Introducing small group discussions or role-playing activities to practice implementing takeaways.
  • Better tangible takeaways for students to practice, such as "Top 3 Things You Can Do..." or "Top 5 Takeaways" to support student learning.

Post-Event

  • Communication from event organizers summarizing the event and highlighting insights.
  • Reminder of PPIL post-event reflection form sent out within 3 days post-event.
  • If the event used slides, sharing those with event participants.