Training for people who hate training
QL Sprints are QuakeLab's answer to traditional DEI sessions. QL Sprints focuses on building on the technical skill and expertise of your teams by training them to imbed equity into the very details of their day-to-day work. These short and sweet sessions are built to get participants on the other side with a plan to execute based in the expertise they have, and the confidence to make tangible impact.
Whats the story?
For years, we've been telling you not to do unconscious bias training, or really most DEI trainings, because they can cause a lot of harm. We knew it was a big ask because training has been a low-cost, quick-return activity.
But, we've heard your requests.
We wanted to take our time building a way for you to figure out how to do make impact directly through the work you do as comms teams, accountants, project managers, M&E experts, etc.
Here's where QL Sprints come in...
What is a QL Sprint
A QL Sprint focuses on supporting you in building diversity, equity, justice, accessibility, and inclusion into the work you do. Rather than focus on building knowledge of all the inequities that exist and leaving you feeling defeated and deflated, our QL Sprint helps you identify the equity challenges in your functional role, identify ways to respond to these inequities, and leaves you with an action plan for your specific work and role.
Sprints are a time-constrained process focused on addressing critical challenges through design, prototyping, and testing ideas. We leverage principles of design sprints to build a five-hour session that gets you focused on specific, actionable steps.
During the QL Sprint you'll:
Clarify the outcomes of your specific role
Identify the barriers to access and participation of these outcomes
Design a plan to reduce and/or eliminate these identified barriers
Create a plan to codify these practices into your processes
We focus on running QL Sprints with functional teams (or departments), so we can get down to the details and make some real change.
How much does it cost?
One five-hour session with a functional team of up to 10 people starts at CAD 11,600. This will include:
A customized QL Sprint
In person or virtual session
One or two QuakeLab facilitators