Practicing Truth + Space + Action
Why do leaders need this tool now and into the future?
Workers do not trust leaders who gloss over reality
Because life outside of work influences how we show up at work
Employees want to work at companies that share their values
How Does this Collaboration Feel?
Oftentimes we hear stories of colleagues communicating at one another. That’s not the same thing as collaborating.
First-ever, In-person Hiring Revolution Retreat
Do you participate in your workplace hiring process? Sick of not achieving the diversity goals you set for your hiring? Come learn how to implement the Hiring Revolution at your workplace!
January 2023 What We’re Learning
We’re big fans of #lifelonglearning - check out what we’ve been taking in and adding to our practices lately.
January 2023 Tools You can Use / Notice, Name, Navigate
Each month we’ll share a tool you can start using right NOW to match your workplace behavior with your equity and inclusion goals.
A Quick D,E,I Goal-Setting Primer
For many of us, the start of a calendar year prompts some self-reflection that ultimately leads to some goal setting. As you have almost certainly heard us say during trainings, “you are the only adult in your control.”
Behave Podcast Season 4: Episode 2218 Responsible to What
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 responsibilities + actions in organizing, activism, + work. They talk about not succumbing to helplessness + staying well enough to be effective.
Behave Podcast Season 4: Episode 2217
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 exist, who should be a part of the group? Alfonso + Trina share some examples of short + long-term committees inside Team Dynamics, plus they advise a few risks to watch out for.
Behave Podcast Season 4: Episode 2216 Pride Month Primer
It's Pride Month! Trina + Alfonso parse out Sexuality, Gender Identity, Gender Expression, + Biological Sex. They also speak into the inextricable linkage between race, gender, + sexuality. If your workplace is working to support your queer and BIPOC folks, we’re offering this BEHAVE Podcast LGBTQ+ Playlist as a refresher and primer for anyone who is curious about how to show up!
Behave Podcast Season 4: Episode 2215 Fixation on Education
Trina + Alfonso talk about their own education + work backgrounds + then get into the actual impact had by having degree requirements included in job postings.
Behave Podcast Season 4: Episode 2214 Where Work Happens
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 things to consider when planning schedules. Why don’t we change behavior when we have data that tells us the way we’re doing things isn’t effective? Here are some questions to navigate that.
Behave Podcast Season 4: Episode 2213 Ethnicity, Race, USA
Alfonso + Trina dive into how exploring ethnicity can bring tremendous advantages + disadvantages when doing intercultural capacity building work. They name how race + ethnicity mean different things in different countries while reminding us that race is tremendously impactful in the United States.
Behave Podcast Season 4: Episode 2212 Roe, Abortion, + Work
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 politicized without telling employees how to vote. Listen to our hosts talk about the vast impact of attempts to control the bodies + behaviors of people.
Why Abortion Care + Transgender Rights Benefit You
What we know, what we have always known—as people with uteruses, as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, as queer folks, as Muslims, as Jews, as atheists—is that there has been a sustained movement in the United States and its colonies to over-regulate, control, and eliminate us from the daily lives of white, cisgender, heterosexual, mainline Protestant Christians.
Behave Podcast Season 4: Episode 2211 with Kelly Fluharty
Trina flys solo but welcomes 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 a belief in the possibility of change + how they do work that is org-wide.
The Impact of a Good Union
The wave of union organizing in the wake of racial reckoning and a global pandemic helps us to see the inequities that have always been present.
What We Notice: Unpaid Labor
Team Dynamics’ current practice is to interrupt the free giving of a significant amount of intellectual property to share without compensation. We have a volume of information available both on our website and our book website and we continue to offer it freely to those who might find it rewarding and challenging. We invite you to share these resources with your colleagues.
Across All Sectors
Our work, as a company that’s Person of Color, Woman, and LGBTQ+-owned and led, is consistently about bringing patterns of interdependence and interconnection into the awareness of our family, friends, colleagues, and clients alike. The joy we have, in what’s broadly called Diversity, Equity + Inclusion, is demonstrating how our approach is replicable and adjustable to every sector of work.
Relationships + Climate Change: A Lakota Perspective
As Earth Day comes and passes every year, I’m reminded every time I work with water that I use to nourish my plants and my own body, I am recommitting myself to the reality of relationship to powers greater than myself.
Behave Podcast Season 4: Episode 2210 Meet Jovan Sage
Trina + 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 ideas about how folks can grow their own food, deepen their own self awareness, & learn past ways.