Diversity in the Workplace Training: Building Bridges of Understanding DWT001
- Course Code : DWT004
- Duration : 2 Days
- Price : 1,619 GBP
- Level: Foundation
- Language: English
Course Content
The Diversity in the Workplace training course is designed to help you work productively in a diverse environment by increasing self-awareness, recognizing and valuing human differences, and developing strategies to foster organizational diversity.
Delivery Method
- In-Person
- Online
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Benefits
Awareness of Diversity: Develop awareness and knowledge of the many dimensions of diversity.
Cultural Influence: Identify major components of culture and its impact on individuals and relationships.
Group Affiliations: Examine the effect of group affiliations on individual identity.
Stereotyping: Explore the costs and effects of stereotyping.
Inclusive Workplace: Recognize the stages toward creating an inclusive workplace.
Communication: Improve communication among diverse employees.
Continuous Learning: Test your knowledge with an end-of-course exam and continue learning with one-on-one instructor coaching.
Course Outline
Module 1: Introductions & Overview
In this module, you will learn how to:
Learn about course goals, objectives, and community agreements.
Activity: What’s in a Name?
Module 2: Diversity: Similar Differences
In this module, you will learn how to:
Understand diversity, its dimensions, and levels of uniqueness.
Activities: Similar Differences, Who Am I?
Module 3: How Culture Shapes Us
Learn about culture, its layers, value, and value programming.
Activities: Brief Encounters, My Life’s Journey
Module 4: Diversity and Inclusion
In this module, you will learn how to:
Approach diversity in the workplace.
Share the workplace with others.
Leverage the benefits and characteristics of an inclusive workplace.
Activities: Portraits of Diversity, Identifying Barriers to Inclusion
Module 5: Identity Groups and Stereotypes
Understand group identities and their importance.
Learn about stereotyping, its pitfalls, and why people stereotype.
Activities: Why Do People Stereotype?, Internalized Oppression; Internalized Pride, Untold History
Module 6: Race, Gender, Power
In this module, you will learn how to:
Learn about conscious and unconscious bias.
Understand key characteristics and types of unconscious bias.
Explore systemic racism and sexism.
Identify characteristics of dominant groups.
Activities: I Don’t Know What I Don’t Know, Race, Gender, and Power
Module 7: Communicating in a Diverse Workplace
In this module, you will learn how to:
Learn about the definition, axioms, and keys of communication.
Activities: Diversity Competence Skills