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LENGTH: Half to Full Day
DESCRIPTION: This course is designed for managers to gain the awareness and skills that will help maximize employee relations, morale and productivity. Through better understanding of diversity issues and how they relate to company vision, managers will be able to manage diversity for long-term business success. The ultimate goal: recognizing and appreciating employees for their similarities and differences, thus making them more prone to contribute to their fullest potential. Leveraging the Diversity Advantage requires managers to complete some brief pre-work in preparation for a full day session.
OBJECTIVES:
· Define diversity and examine the organization's
current diversity management vision
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Explain the business case for promoting diversity in the workplace
· Relate diversity initiatives to high employee
morale and productivity
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Understand the business case for diversity
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Assess current skills for managing diversity
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Explain how perceptions and biases impact workplace behavior
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Identify how managers can promote the acceptance and appreciation of diversity
· Create connections with other people that
build richer workplace relationships
· Learn how to take accountability and recover
from mistakes relating to diversity
COMMENTS FROM PAST PARTICIPANTS:
USA Basketball - Colorado Springs, CO
LENGTH: Half to Full Day
DESCRIPTION: This workshop is similar to the Managerial Toolbox, but more generalized to stress the fundamentals outlined above while increasing employees' appreciation of similarities and differences among personnel. Unlike the day-long managerial course, participants are not required to complete pre-work and the course can be shortened to a half-day.
COMMENTS FROM PAST PARTICIPANTS:
Colorado Staffing Association, Inc.- Castle Rock, CO
LENGTH: 2 to 4 Hours
DESCRIPTION: The disparity among the four generations in the workforce - Veterans, Boomers, Xers and Nexters - can sometimes create a clash of misunderstanding and frustration that reduces employee morale and ultimately, productivity. This session clarifies the primary characteristics among the four generations while also pinpointing similarities and differences in workplace behavior and attitudes between men and women. Employees will find this half-day session insightful; managers will learn more about how they can effectively harness cross-generation/gender differences to improve work group morale and productivity.
OBJECTIVES:
· Assess cross-generation friendliness among
work group/s
· Assess gender-friendliness among work group/s
· Identify and characterize similarities
and differences among the four generations
· Learn how to effectively motivate, mentor
and recruit workers from all four generations
· Practice managing gender and generation-related
conflicts through case studies
· Examine verbal and non-verbal communication
differences and similarities among generations and between
genders
COMMENTS FROM PAST PARTICIPANTS
LENGTH: 4 Hours
DESCRIPTION: This session provides sales and service professionals with a foundation for tapping into Hispanic markets. With an aggregate buying power of more than $420 billion, Latinos have acquired a powerful consumer edge in the United States that companies simply cannot overlook. Outside of hiring Spanish-speaking employees, companies can implement specific tools and strategies that help increase their presence within the Latino markets. This session will also help managers increase recruitment and retention of minorities in general, but specifically Hispanics. Bienvenido! is a great half-day session for any business interested in creating a stronger foundation for growth in the Hispanic marketplace.
OBJECTIVES:
· Learn more about the business case for understanding and targeting Hispanic markets
· Increase awareness of cultural nuances that affect Hispanic buying decisions/trends
· Increase awareness of the various subgroups that make up Latino markets
· Learn how to recruit and retain Hispanic employees for better internal representation
· Learn how to use a professional language line as a service and sales resource
· Explore resources that can help organizations continue to increase their share in Latino and other emerging markets
COMMENTS FROM PAST PARTICIPANTS
LENGTH: 1 to 4 Hours
DESCRIPTION: This workshop is designed to increase employees' awareness of individual communication styles and how these styles reflect cultural diversity and affect customer service interaction. Using a communications inventory, employees will discover how and why they communicate differently or similarly and how these variances affect teamwork. Participants also would explore teamwork dynamics through fun, interactive exercises and discussion that involve percussion instruments from throughout the world. Overall, this module helps team members become more in tune with each other and the customers they service while exposing managers to team work dynamics among their team/s.
COMMENTS FROM PAST PARTICIPANTS:
Rocky Mountain Event Consultants, LLC - Castle Rock, CO
Colorado Business Committee for the Arts - Denver, CO
LENGTH: 2 to 4 Hours
DESCRIPTION: This workshop builds on the previous module. Because team members sometimes must initiate "hard conversations" in order achieve goals under deadline, it is important that they learn communication skills that resolve rather than exacerbate conflict. This module exposes participants to an empathic communication approach that can effectively reduce conflict hostility while improving negotiation skills in professional and personal conversations. This expanded workshop is particularly valuable to organizations that are experiencing rapid growth or change.
COMMENTS FROM PAST PARTICIPANTS:
Health One Swedish Medical Center - Englewood, CO
LENGTH: 1 to 4 Hours
DESCRIPTION: This special program is designed to entertain and educate, highlighting Egger-Belandria's combination of explosive drumming performance, multicultural lecture and group involvement. Using an impressive setup of percussion instruments from throughout the world, Egger-Belandria takes his audience on a musical field trip from Africa to the Caribbean and the Americas. World Rhythm Synergy is great for parties, conferences, holidays, kids' days and many other special events. This presentation is very flexible in format and time length.
COMMENTS FROM PAST PARTICIPANTS:
Norwest Banks Colorado - Denver, CO
LENGTH: 1 to 2 Hours
DESCRIPTION: In this interactive workshop, participants will learn about some of the various music and drumming traditions that have evolved throughout the Americas. Facilitator Dan Egger-Belandria will make reference to Caribbean, North, Central and South American drumming, but his primary emphasis will concern Afro-Cuban Diaspora. Participants also will learn how to make a drum. Once participants complete their drum, which will be theirs to keep, Dan Egger-Belandria will lead them through playing exercises that emphasis the value of ethnic identity, self-esteem, and artistic self-expression.
COMMENTS FROM PAST PARTICIPANTS:
Downtown Aurora Visual Arts - Aurora, CO
Laradon Hall Director - Denver, CO
Laradon Hall Staff - Denver, CO
LENGTH: 45 Minutes to 1 Hour
DESCRIPTION: World Rhythm Synergy is a high-energy multicultural event that infuses explosive drumming with meaningful lecture and group participation for students. This a unique opportunity for students to learn more about the evolution of western civilization and how it has inspired cultural development, social interaction and multicultural distinction within the United States. More importantly, the program shows students how they are connected, both culturally and musically. From Africa to the Caribbean to Central and North America, the World Rhythm Synergy is a musical field trip that students can enjoy while learning. Along the way, they will have an opportunity to explore various African, Afro-Cuban and Caribbean rhythms such merengue, mozambique, reggae, soca, bembe, samba, and more. The program will have them playing, dancing, even rapping!
EQUIPMENT NEEDS: A performance area of at least 10' x 10' and a simple PA system with microphone.
VIDEO CLIP: Edutainment Presentation Sample
COMMENTS FROM PAST PARTICIPANTS:
Eastridge Elementary - Aurora, CO
Washington Bilingual School - Boulder, CO
Photo by: Todd Pierson