Becoming the Solution
Corporate Diversity Training
We've all heard it before: If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. Prejudice, workplace bullying, sexual harassment, age discrimination, lack of cultural understanding... these pervasive issues cost businesses in lost productivity, lawsuits, and missed sales. The bottom line? Your bottom line is affected by these problems! The Diversity Council's professional diversity training package helps your staff become part of the solution.
Curriculum
"Becoming the Solution" offers a menu of sessions in 3 modules designed to both enrich knowledge and guide participants in applying that knowledge in the workplace.
Optimizing Difference
This module addresses various aspects of basic human difference, from religion to immigration, from the generation gap to gender. Workshops include:
Foundational
- Compassion & Empathy, Similarity & Difference
- It’s All About Respect
- Mindsets: Research on the brain and bias
- Rochester Snapshots: Demographics and trends
- Rising Above Stereotypes and Prejudice
- Why Diversity and Inclusion Matter: The Human Difference Spectrum
The ‘At Work’ Series
- Ability and Disability at Work
- Gender at Work
- Immigration at Work
- Appearance at Work
- Race at Work
- Religion at Work
- Sexual Orientation at Work
- Age and Generations at Work
- Class at Work
Honoring Culture
This module addresses the ways culture intersects with workplace interaction and how to successfully navigate multicultural waters. Workshops include:
- Assimilation: Melting Pot or Salad Bowl? On integration, segregation and assimilation
- Beyond Taco Night: Celebrating culture in the workplace
- Culture at Work
- Happy Holidays
- Intersections: Where Religion and Culture Meet
- Where Are You From? Talking about ethnicity, national origin and heritage at work
- Cultural Competence Series: Learning about specific cultures
The Power of Words
This module teaches participants skillful and respectful communication in the workplace. Workshops include:
- Deliberate Civility
- Language Learning
- Speak Out: How to speak up against prejudice at work
- That’s Not What I Meant to Say
- To Be or Not to Be PC
- Workplace Bullying
Let’s Talk Series
- How to talk about difficult topics respectfully
- Let’s Talk about Ability at Work
- Let’s Talk about Gender at Work
- Let’s Talk about Sexual Orientation at Work
- Let’s Talk about Age at Work
- Let’s Talk about Religion at Work
- Let’s Talk about Immigration at Work
IDI
The Diversity Council is also licensed to offer the IDI (Intercultural Development Inventory), the world's premier intercultural competence assessment tool. The IDI can help your company analyze individual and organizational strengths and weaknesses and determine what training will best meet your needs.
Objectives
The objective of "Becoming the Solution" is to train your staff to work together as a close-knit, high-performing team that is able to make better decisions and find innovative solutions to complex problems. A workforce with these skills will position your business as an employer of choice.
Trainers
Our 12 corporate trainers representing the broad spectrum of diversity in our community have received 32 hours of training, in addition to practice and observation. Meet our trainers
How Does it Work?
From this flexible curriculum, businesses can choose to purchase anything from a single one-hour workshop to a full year of 60 hours of staff training.
For More Information
Nickie Froiland
507-424-2801
Savita Katarya
507-282-9951
