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Diversity awareness in workplace

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Diversity awareness in workplace Course

Introduction:

Collaboration has always been essential for achieving success in creating profitable businesses. In the present business landscape, employers have access to a diverse talent pool when making hiring decisions. However, this diversity presents its own set of challenges, particularly in the context of establishing an equal-opportunity workplace. This involves hiring individuals from various backgrounds, encompassing different races, religions, languages, lifestyles, and other unique characteristics. For an organization to thrive, everyone must be aligned on the same page and working towards shared goals.

Course Objectives:

Diversity awareness in workplace training courses helps to:

Enhance awareness and understanding of the value of an inclusive workforce/meeting the needs of diverse service users and clients
Enhanced engagement of staff and volunteer teams.
Enhance knowledge of good diversity and inclusion practices in the workplace.
Ensure staff/managers are meeting your legal obligations.
Improve outcomes as an organization.
Develop awareness and knowledge of the many dimensions of diversity.
Identify the major components of culture and its influence on the individual and relationships.
Examine the effect of group affiliations on individual identity.
Explore the costs and effects of stereotyping.
Recognize the stages towards an inclusive workplace.
Improve communication amongst diverse employees.

Who Should Attend?

Diversity awareness in workplace training courses is ideal for :

HR Managers and employees
Executives and senior leadership teams who have the initiative and influence to advance diversity and inclusion efforts

Course Outlines:

Diversity: Similar Differences

Chapter Objectives
What is Diversity?
Dimensions of Diversity
Activity: Similar Differences
Levels of Uniqueness
Activity: Who Am I?

How Culture Shapes Us

Chapter Objectives
What is Culture
Layers of Culture
Activity: Brief Encounters
Values: The Core of Culture
Value Programming
Activity: My Life’s Journey
Steps for Building Understanding

Diversity and Inclusion

Chapter Objectives
Activity: Portraits of Diversity
Share of the Workforce
Approaches to Diversity
Steps Towards an Inclusive Workplace
Activity: Identifying Barriers to Inclusion
Benefits of an Inclusive Workplace
Characteristics of an Inclusive Workplace

Identity Groups and Stereotypes

Chapter Objectives
What is Group Identity?
Group Identities are Important
When There Are Few Amongst Many
Stereotyping
Pitfalls and Costs of Stereotyping
Why People Stereotype
Activity: Internalized Oppression; Internalized Pride
Activity: Untold History

Race, Gender, Power

Chapter Objectives
Conscious/Unconscious
Expectations and Assumptions
Unconscious Bias
Key Characteristics of Unconscious Bias
Some Types of Unconscious Bias
Systemic Racism and Sexism
How ‘isms” are Built
Activity: I Don’t Know What I Don’t Know
Characteristics of Dominant Groups
Outcomes: Racist/Sexist vs. Inclusive
What is Power?
Activity: Race/Gender and Power

Communicating in a Diverse Workplace

Chapter Objectives
Definition of Communication
Axioms of Communication
Communication Keys
Activity: Diversity Competence Skills
Diversity Mindset