Coaching for Excellence

Diversity

Check out our book,

Leveraging Diversity at Work:
How to Hire, Retain and Inspire a Diverse Workforce for Peak Performance and Profit

Free Teleconference
Celebrate Diversity
Do you maintain a diverse workforce in your place of business? Do you celebrate diversity? Would you like to learn how to create a diverse workplace that embraces diversity? Register for this call and learn how creating a diverse workforce in your place of business can increase your bottom line and create a more pleasant work environment for you, your co-workers and your employees.

Celebrate Diversity - Downloadable one (1) hour recording of our teleconference Celebrate Diversity which discusses steps you can take to start embracing diversity in your life and in the workplace. Only $10.00

Perpetual Diversity Calendar - Do you know all the holidays and celebrations that your employees and co-workers observe? Would you like to? Would you like to create an environment in your organization that embraces diversity? This calendar is in 8 1/2 x 11 pdf format. Each month is on a separate page making it easy to print each month for posting on a bulletin board. This is a perpetual calendar. Every year, on the anniversary of your purchase, you will receive a new updated calendar for the new year. Purchase today and start celebrating diversity! CLICK HERE to see a sample page of the calendar.

Receive this Diversity Calendar FREE when you purchase my new book, Leveraging Diversity at WorkClick on link and sign up to receive notification of when my book is available to purchase.

Workshops

Diversity from the Inside Out

December 2 , 2008
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Prairie State Colllege, Matteson Center
Chicago, IL

During this workshop, we will talk about concrete steps you can take to achieve the results you want. Finally, real answers to creating, managing and expanding the diverse workforce you need to succeed in today’s diverse marketplace—whether you are competing globally, nationally, regionally or in your backyard. Demographics are quickly changing. If you want to keep pace with the changing times, now is the time to take action!

Cultural Awareness

New date coming soon

This workshop is devoted to a scrutinizing introspective, inside out approach to looking at our own issues that may either enhance or hinder our ability to embrace members of cultures different from our own.

• Participants will learn that cultural is more than race and ethnicity---it is a total way of life.
• Participants will begin to discuss some aspects of their own culture.

• Participants will describe primary & secondary dimensions of diversity and visible and invisible characteristics of diversity

• Participants will experience what it is to be included and excluded from the main group.

• Participants will discuss their own cultural values and how they may impact the work they do with clients.

• Through an experiential activity, participants will experience culture shock first-hand.

• Participants will view a video that depicts how easy it is to teach hate, discrimination and oppression.

• Participants will develop an action plan to move them in the direction of developing their cultural awareness.

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Diversity Workshops
(Series of Three 6 hour Workshops)

Day 1: Cultural Awareness - In this highly interactive workshop, the trainers help their audience to experience diversity from the inside out. Participants begin to think of diversity in terms of their own experiences, values, stereotypes and prejudices. Through several sets of meaningful exercise, participants will actually experience a little of what it feels like to be a minority within a majority culture.

Day 2: Cultural Information - In this workshop, information will be presented regarding research and what it tells us about particular cultural groups. If your agency encounters specific cultures, the information can be tailored to the particular groups you serve. This is the day where staff can get their specific questions answered about other cultures. ( Day 1 is a prequisite to Day 2 and must be taken first)

Day 3: Cultural Skills - In this workshop, the trainers focus on skill development for helpers so that counselors/therapists/social workers can feel comfortable interacting with members of cultures dissimilar from their own. It involves identifying our areas of strength and knowing when it is necessary to seek supervision and possibly refer to someone more qualified.
(Day 2 is a prequisite to Day 3 and must be taken first)

Diversity Discount: If you schedule all three days, either consecutively or spread out over a period of time, you will receive a discount. Call 708-957-6047 for pricing and details.

Click here for Diversity Brochure (pdf file)

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