The workshop series is open to the Duke community, particularly to staff interested in increasing skill and workplace culture in their departments. Directions, parking, and other logistical information will be released at a later time. Registration is required for each session. Please see each workshop description for additional details.
2026 Workshop Series
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• Generational Differences • Disability and Inclusive Excellence • Foundational Concepts • Trauma Informed Leadership • Culture and Communication • Quality Hiring and Selection • Social Identity • Discrimination & Harassment Prevention • Communication for Effective Teams • Restorative Justice
GENERATIONAL DIFFERENCES
This session will cover general information about how navigating generational differences can enhance workplace outcomes. Participants will learn about the general characteristics attributed to generations/age groups and how they may impact our approaches to work. Particular attention will be devoted to more recent generational and workplace developments related to changes in technology, access, values, and skills. Participants will engage in activities that will help them develop capacity for identifying generation related assumptions and expectations, build skills for addressing generational differences that cause concern or conflict, and examine strategies for creating more inclusive and effective intergenerational workplaces.
Facilitated by: Elizabeth Jones, Ph.D., Director for Education and Outreach & Genevieve Barnes, M.S. M.A. Assistant Director for Education and Outreach
- Wednesday, January 14, 2026 | 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM | REGISTER HERE
Note on the online registration form: Microsoft may ask you to sign in to access the form. Please use your alphanumeric NetID@duke.edu email (not an alias like jane.doe@duke.edu) and log in using your Duke credentials. The form will recognize you as a Duke employee or student and it will give you the option to receive a receipt of your submission, which will go to your Duke email inbox.
Registrants will receive additional information about the location, including parking, prior to the session. Please contact oie-education@duke.edu if you have any questions or concerns.
Disability and Inclusive Excellence: Definitions, context, and best practices
This interactive session will discuss how disability shows up in the workplace and how we can ensure that everyone in our community is supported in their work. Participants will be invited to explore disability as a form of human difference that touches all of our lives. We will discuss disability history, physical disability, neurodiversity, increasing access, and more. Participants will engage activities to deepen their knowledge about disability, and their capacity to cultivate an ability inclusive workforce.
Facilitated by: Elizabeth Jones, Ph.D., Director for Education and Outreach
- Wednesday, January 28, 2026 | 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM | REGISTER HERE
Note on the online registration form: Microsoft may ask you to sign in to access the form. Please use your alphanumeric NetID@duke.edu email (not an alias like jane.doe@duke.edu) and log in using your Duke credentials. The form will recognize you as a Duke employee or student and it will give you the option to receive a receipt of your submission, which will go to your Duke email inbox.
Registrants will receive additional information about the location, including parking, prior to the session. Please contact oie-education@duke.edu if you have any questions or concerns.
Foundational Concepts for Inclusive Excellence
This interactive session offers participants engagement with foundational concepts related to inclusive excellence and a connection to Duke values. Participants will relate these concepts to practices through evidence-based frameworks and techniques. Participants will also consider more broadly the concepts of team development and how social groups and identities are relevant, and both impact and are impacted by workplace interactions. This session is designed to be an opening level engagement with concepts related to inclusion and equity. It is appropriate for any member of the Duke community who wants to learn about creating inclusive environments and/or has questions about how to understand their work and campus engagement within the framework of inclusive excellence.
Facilitated by: Leigh-Anne Royster, Ph.D., Associate Vice President for Strategy and Education Development
- Wednesday, February 11, 2026 | 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM | REGISTER HERE
Note on the online registration form: Microsoft may ask you to sign in to access the form. Please use your alphanumeric NetID@duke.edu email (not an alias like jane.doe@duke.edu) and log in using your Duke credentials. The form will recognize you as a Duke employee or student and it will give you the option to receive a receipt of your submission, which will go to your Duke email inbox.
Registrants will receive additional information about the location, including parking, prior to the session. Please contact oie-education@duke.edu if you have any questions or concerns.
Trauma Informed Leadership
Most people have experienced trauma – whether interpersonal, systemic or historical. Additionally, we have all recently experienced what experts would term a ‘collective trauma’ in our involvement with the covid pandemic. No matter our experience of loss or harm through the pandemic, we were all more aware of harm, grief and stress. As we carry these experiences through our lives, we cannot ignore the connection to our work and workplace. Trauma-informed leadership can reframe indications as adaptive responses to harm to create deeper understanding. It can also help leaders understand how to create environments that are attentive to the needs of all workers and those they serve. Ultimately a trauma-informed work environment and approach to work creates the conditions for more productive outcomes, better retention, and a healthier workforce. This session will equip participants with a core understanding of the components of a trauma-informed approach to leadership and will offer interactive engagements to practice those concepts, ultimately translating this theory to practice.
Facilitated by: Leigh-Anne Royster, Ph.D., Associate Vice President for Strategy and Education Development
- Wednesday, February 25, 2026 | 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM | REGISTER HERE
Note on the online registration form: Microsoft may ask you to sign in to access the form. Please use your alphanumeric NetID@duke.edu email (not an alias like jane.doe@duke.edu) and log in using your Duke credentials. The form will recognize you as a Duke employee or student and it will give you the option to receive a receipt of your submission, which will go to your Duke email inbox.
Registrants will receive additional information about the location, including parking, prior to the session. Please contact oie-education@duke.edu if you have any questions or concerns.
Culture and Communication I: Perception, understanding, and connection
This session will cover general information about the ways in which our culture(s) inform our understanding of ourselves and each other, as well as how to improve our capacity and skills for engaging across difference. This interactive session includes opportunities for individual exploration and relational skill building. Participants will be invited to think about how each of us forms our understandings, and how we can understand how others do as well. With increased understanding, participants will be invited to practice communication strategies to be thoughtful and effective in their interactions and relationships in the workplace. Participants should be prepared to engage in discussion in this session.
Facilitated by: Elizabeth Jones, Ph.D., Director for Education and Outreach
- Wednesday, March 11, 2026 | 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM | REGISTER HERE
Note on the online registration form: Microsoft may ask you to sign in to access the form. Please use your alphanumeric NetID@duke.edu email (not an alias like jane.doe@duke.edu) and log in using your Duke credentials. The form will recognize you as a Duke employee or student and it will give you the option to receive a receipt of your submission, which will go to your Duke email inbox.
Registrants will receive additional information about the location, including parking, prior to the session. Please contact oie-education@duke.edu if you have any questions or concerns.
Quality Hiring and Selection: Building an effective team
This workshop engages with search practices, including search committees on consistent and equitable practices throughout the search process. Participants will be better equipped to proactively implement beneficial strategies pertaining to:
- Recruiting a candidate pool
- Assessing positive and negative biases
- Understanding Duke resources
- Incorporating consistent and equitable evaluation measures
- Exploring best practices that are congruous with departmental and institutional priorities
- The topics and techniques covered in this workshop are beneficial for those tasked with making recruitment, selection, and retention decisions.
Facilitated by: Kimberly Hewitt, J.D., Vice President for Institutional Equity
- Wednesday, March 25, 2026 | 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM | REGISTER HERE
Note on the online registration form: Microsoft may ask you to sign in to access the form. Please use your alphanumeric NetID@duke.edu email (not an alias like jane.doe@duke.edu) and log in using your Duke credentials. The form will recognize you as a Duke employee or student and it will give you the option to receive a receipt of your submission, which will go to your Duke email inbox.
Registrants will receive additional information about the location, including parking, prior to the session. Please contact oie-education@duke.edu if you have any questions or concerns.
Social Identity
This session explores the complexities of social identity and how it shapes our experiences, interactions, and perspectives. Participants will engage in reflective activities to better understand their own social identities, recognize the identities of others, and examine how bias and group dynamics influence belonging. Participants will leave with practical strategies to foster inclusion, build empathy, and strengthen connections within the workplace and beyond.
Facilitated by: Genevieve Barnes, M.S. M.A. Assistant Director for Education and Outreach
- Wednesday, April 8, 2026 | 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM | REGISTER HERE
Note on the online registration form: Microsoft may ask you to sign in to access the form. Please use your alphanumeric NetID@duke.edu email (not an alias like jane.doe@duke.edu) and log in using your Duke credentials. The form will recognize you as a Duke employee or student and it will give you the option to receive a receipt of your submission, which will go to your Duke email inbox.
Registrants will receive additional information about the location, including parking, prior to the session. Please contact oie-education@duke.edu if you have any questions or concerns.
Discrimination and Harassment Prevention
This interactive session focuses on institutional compliance, including strategies to support alignment with the provisions of the Duke Policy on Prohibited Discrimination, Harassment and Related Misconduct (the Policy). Participants will have an opportunity to delve more deeply into the Policy, procedures, and reporting obligations. Participants will receive relevant information about the scope of the Policy, the definition of prohibited conduct, conduct that might implicate the Policy, prohibited retaliation, reporting obligations and how to encourage a work and/or learning environment that aligns with the Policy. The workshop will also include an overview of the various complaint handling procedures.
Participants will:
- Engage in real life scenarios.
- Engage in opportunities for real time responses to Policy-related situations and/or video content.
- Receive material designed to equip them with the knowledge to utilize resources (such as OIE).
- Learn techniques to initially respond to reported concerns or conduct in an appropriate manner
Facilitated by: Kimberly Hewitt, J.D., Vice President for Institutional Equity & Sharon Gooding, J.D., Associate Vice President for Institutional Equity, Equal Opportunity & Compliance
- Wednesday, April 22, 2026 | 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM | REGISTER HERE
Note on the online registration form: Microsoft may ask you to sign in to access the form. Please use your alphanumeric NetID@duke.edu email (not an alias like jane.doe@duke.edu) and log in using your Duke credentials. The form will recognize you as a Duke employee or student and it will give you the option to receive a receipt of your submission, which will go to your Duke email inbox.
Registrants will receive additional information about the location, including parking, prior to the session. Please contact oie-education@duke.edu if you have any questions or concerns.
Communication for Effective Teams: Moving from conflict to collaboration
This session will cover general information about how conflict in the workplace, when understood and properly leveraged, can be an opportunity for relationship building and improving team dynamics. The discussion will include a deeper dive into why conflict happens, the distinctions between productive and unproductive conflicts, and how to resolve conflict in a way that meets the moment and moves team members forward. This interactive session includes opportunities for individual exploration and relational skill building. Participants will consider real world scenarios and enjoy opportunities to practice skills for conflict management.
Facilitated by: Elizabeth Jones, Ph.D., Director for Education and Outreach
- Wednesday, May 6, 2026 | 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM | REGISTER HERE
Note on the online registration form: Microsoft may ask you to sign in to access the form. Please use your alphanumeric NetID@duke.edu email (not an alias like jane.doe@duke.edu) and log in using your Duke credentials. The form will recognize you as a Duke employee or student and it will give you the option to receive a receipt of your submission, which will go to your Duke email inbox.
Registrants will receive additional information about the location, including parking, prior to the session. Please contact oie-education@duke.edu if you have any questions or concerns.
Restorative Justice: The basics
Restorative justice (RJ) is an approach to community building rooted in native American practices of community integration and healing. Restorative justice and other restorative practices can be integral in recovering from crisis, community harm and/or social injustice. This model involves harmed communities and sometimes integrates those who have harmed within the community. This workshop will give and overview of RJ principles and practices that contribute to healing from trauma and community harm. In addition, this session will provide examples of how this approach has been effectively utilized in clinical settings, the classroom and community-based research.
Facilitated by: Leigh-Anne Royster, Ph.D., Associate Vice President for Strategy and Education Development
- Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM | REGISTER HERE
Note on the online registration form: Microsoft may ask you to sign in to access the form. Please use your alphanumeric NetID@duke.edu email (not an alias like jane.doe@duke.edu) and log in using your Duke credentials. The form will recognize you as a Duke employee or student and it will give you the option to receive a receipt of your submission, which will go to your Duke email inbox.
Registrants will receive additional information about the location, including parking, prior to the session. Please contact oie-education@duke.edu if you have any questions or concerns.