Diversity and Inclusion Training Jeopardy

A ready-made diversity and inclusion training board. Copy it free, put it on the screen, and run it as a team refresher with phone buzzers.

6 categories · 30 clues · Final Jeopardy · everyone buzzes in from their phone

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Key Terms

$200
This word describes the range of human differences in a group, such as age, race, gender and background.
What is diversity?
$400
Unlike equality, which gives everyone the same thing, this principle gives people what they need to reach a fair outcome.
What is equity?
$600
This is the feeling of being accepted and valued as a full member of a group.
What is belonging?
$800
Coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, this term describes how overlapping identities like race and gender shape experience.
What is intersectionality?
$1,000
This term names brief, often unintentional comments or actions that convey a slight toward a marginalized group.
What are microaggressions?

Unconscious Bias

$200
This bias leads people to favor information that supports what they already believe.
What is confirmation bias?
$400
In this effect, one positive trait, like confidence, colors our whole impression of a person.
What is the halo effect?
$600
This bias is the tendency to favor people who are similar to ourselves.
What is affinity bias?
$800
This bias means relying too heavily on the first piece of information we receive, such as a first salary figure.
What is anchoring bias?
$1,000
Hosted by Project Implicit, this online test measures automatic associations people may not know they hold.
What is the Implicit Association Test?

Inclusive Meetings

$200
Sending this list of topics before a meeting lets everyone prepare, not just the quickest thinkers.
What is an agenda?
$400
In this meeting format, each person takes a turn to speak in order so no one is skipped.
What is a round robin?
$600
Rotating this task of recording what was said keeps it from always falling to the same people.
What is note-taking?
$800
This practice means repeating a colleague's point in a meeting and giving them credit so it is not overlooked.
What is amplification?
$1,000
In this technique, everyone writes down ideas silently before any group discussion begins.
What is brainwriting?

Inclusive Hiring

$200
Removing names and other identifying details before reviewing applications is called this.
What is blind resume review?
$400
Asking every candidate the same questions and scoring them against the same criteria makes this kind of interview.
What is a structured interview?
$600
Including interviewers with different backgrounds and roles creates this.
What is a diverse interview panel?
$800
Instead of asking whether a candidate matches the existing team, many teams ask what the person brings, an idea called this.
What is culture add?
$1,000
This part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 bars job discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
What is Title VII?

Workplace Scenarios

$200
This term describes a witness who steps in to help when someone is being mistreated.
What is an upstander?
$400
This is an employee-led group, often company-sponsored, built around a shared identity or experience.
What is an employee resource group (ERG)?
$600
A common training maxim says that what counts is not only a speaker's intent but also this, the effect on the listener.
What is impact?
$800
Described by Amy Edmondson, this is a shared belief that you can speak up without being punished or humiliated.
What is psychological safety?
$1,000
Unlike mentoring, this means a senior leader actively uses their influence to advocate for someone's advancement.
What is sponsorship?

Accessibility Basics

$200
This on-screen text lets people who are deaf or hard of hearing follow a video.
What are captions?
$400
This 1990 US law prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
$600
This short written description is attached to an image so screen readers can describe it.
What is alt text?
$800
This is a change to a job or workspace that helps an employee with a disability do the work.
What is a reasonable accommodation?
$1,000
The WCAG accessibility guidelines ask for at least a 4.5 to 1 ratio of this between normal text and its background.
What is color contrast?

Final Jeopardy — Inclusive Language

This term describes designing a space, product, or process to work for the widest range of people from the start, rather than adding accommodations later.

What is inclusive design (or universal design)?

How to run this board

The six categories move from vocabulary a team should share a definition of, through inclusive meeting and hiring practices, to the kind of everyday scenario a refresher is actually meant to prepare someone for.

The Workplace Scenarios category is deliberately judgment-based rather than fact-based, so treat a range of reasonable answers as correct and use disagreement as the discussion prompt it is meant to be, not something to adjudicate strictly.

This board works best as the close of a session rather than the whole of it - it reinforces material already covered rather than introducing it cold.

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