Intentional Diversity: Growing Your Organization on the Foundation of Diversity

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What you'll learn

The course will help participants understand what diversity is all about, and how they can help create a more diverse world at work and at home. They will be instructed to use skills such as active listening to receive messages in a diverse population, employ effective questioning techniques, and communicate with strength.

Amendment 42-24 Authorized for use 1 January 2025 / Mandatory 1 January 2026

Description

Course Overview

With the world becoming more mobile and diverse, diversity has taken on a new importance in the workplace. Your participants will be able to use strategies for removing barriers and stereotypes, and to encourage diversity in the workplace and even through their community.

The Workplace Diversity course will help participants understand what diversity is all about, and how they can help create a more diverse world at work and at home. They will be instructed to use skills such as active listening to receive messages in a diverse population, employ effective questioning techniques, and communicate with strength.

Diversity relates to gender, age, linguistic and cultural background, disability, religious belief and pregnancy and family responsibilities. Diversity also refers to the many other ways we are different in other respects such as educational background, socio-economic background, personality profile, geographic location, marital status, etc.

Course Objectives

  • Explain the definition, terms, and history of diversity
  • Describe the meaning of stereotypes and biases, how they develop, and the reasons for your own perspectives
  • List strategies for removing barriers to encouraging diversity for yourself, in the workplace, and in the social community
  • Use active listening skills to receive messages in a diverse population, employ effective questioning techniques, and communicate with strength
  • Understand the importance of body language, both your own, and that of others, and recognize its importance in interpersonal communications
  • Identify ways to encourage diversity in the workplace, and prevent and discourage discrimination
  • Understand and respond to personal complaints, and develop a support system to manage the resolution process
  • List the steps a manager should take to record a complaint, analyze the situation, and take appropriate resolution action
  • Identify the process an organization must follow to receive and respond to a complaint, and then creating mechanisms to prevent or reduce repeat situations.
 

In this course, I will share best practices for workforce diversity and workplace inclusion. I will discuss ways to champion change and activate initiatives in your organization.

System Requirements

Access to Microsoft Powerpoint & Microsoft Word

Table of Contents

Course Outline

Module One: Getting Started

Module Two: Understanding Diversity

Module Three: Understanding Stereotypes

Module Four: Breaking Down the Barriers

Module Five: Verbal Communication Skills

Module Six: Non-Verbal Communication Skills

Module Seven: Being Proactive

Module Eight: Coping with Discrimination

Module Nine: Dealing with Diversity Complaints as a Person

Module Ten: Dealing with Diversity Complaints as a Manager

Module Eleven: Dealing with Diversity Complaints as a Organization

Module Twelve: Wrapping Up