CQ Capacity Areas & Delivery Methods

Between 2010 and 2025, over 385 organizations, schools, colleges, and businesses across Vermont and beyond sought CQ Strategies, LLC services. CQ facilitated more than 650 workshops for over 12,000 people from community organizers to superintendents to CEOs, with the goal of increasing equity and cultural proficiency in our communities.

TRAINING CAPACITY AREAS ADDRESSED:

  • Cultural norms in the workplace

  • Culturally competent recruitment and hiring practices

  • Having difficult / “courageous” conversations

  • Implicit Bias

  • Recognizing and addressing microaggressions

  • Power and privilege in the workplace

  • Social identity and group membership

  • Ally behavior

    ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CAPACITY AREAS ADDRESSED:

  • Leadership and strategies for cultivating positive organizational cultures of change

  • Cultural competence in vision, mission, statement, and policy development

  • Marketing and community outreach

  • Professional development and learning

  • Strategic planning: organizational assessment and focused goal-setting

  • Ongoing advising and coaching

TRAINING DELIVERY METHODS

CQ Strategies trainings included small and large group activities, paired and small group structured dialogues (concentric circle activities, case study discussions, etc.), experiential simulations (bias bike, card games, etc), videos followed by discussion, and more. Participants were continuously asked to connect and apply workshop content with their everyday personal and work experiences.