It’s budget season, which begs the question, is your employer investing in your career development to help you lead more inclusively in 2023? Whether you’re looking for ideas on how to advocate for a professional development (PD) budget, or if you’re curious about how you can put it to work, Rhodes offers powerful insights all about the importance of utilizing your professional development budget in the year ahead.

During this episode, you will discover some of the many ways you can invest your PD budget to gain the knowledge, skills, and confidence to transform moments of exclusion into moments of belonging at work. And if you don’t yet have a PD budget, you’ll gain clarity about why a PD budget is an essential element to ignite your career growth, how you can encourage your employer to budget for your very own PD budget, and ways you can put it to work as you grow into a more inclusive leader.

As a result of listening to this episode, you will:

• Learn 3 reasons why PD budgets are a key ingredient to belonging at work.
• Gain key strategies to help advocate for a PD budget (if you don’t yet have one).
• Recognize the 3 common reasons why many fail to utilize their PD budgets.
• Gain a framework to clarify the specific skills you will need to lead inclusively at work.
• Avoid paying money out of your own pocket to gain the leadership skills you desire.

After listening to this episode, if you want to dive more deeply into the content Rhodes offers, be sure to register for his upcoming, Budget for Belonging workshop, where you can discuss these topics in greater depth with fellow DEI professionals and other inclusive leaders eager to advocate for PD budgets for their colleagues, and to put their own budgets to work in the year head! The workshop will help you build an even greater sense of belonging at work for you and your colleagues.

After you listen, please be sure to explore these additional resources:

• Register for the Budget for Belonging workshop: https://belongingatwork.kartra.com/page/nov-30-22
• Subscribe to the Imagine Belonging at Work Newsletter: https://www.rhodesperry.com/subscribe
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