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Discovering Diversity®

Help People Capitalize on Differences
As the dramatic shift to a highly diverse workforce continues, organizations know they must help all workers understand, accept, and capitalize on differences. They know the cultural backgrounds and experiences of diverse employees and customers can enrich the organization, making it more innovative and globally competitive. But realizing the benefits of diversity means meeting the diversity challenge through self-awareness, understanding, and commitment. That commitment must begin at the top. Leaders who truly value diversity want more than compliance. And they know commitment to diversity grows only as self-awareness and personal accountability flourish within the organization.

Discover Your Comfort Level
The Discovering Diversity Profile guides learners through a confidential interpretation process that identifies their present attitudes about workforce diversity. They quickly assess their level of comfort — or discomfort— with differences by using a simple feedback grid that corresponds to the four diversity areas. Current feelings, opinions, knowledge, and skills are pinpointed. The impact of individual comfort level on workplace effectiveness is clarified, and specific suggestions for improving individual understanding of diverse groups are offered.

Gain Insight, Take Action, Value Diversity
The Discovering Diversity Profile helps individuals in an organization:
• discover their personal comfort level with people who are different from themselves
• understand the impact of their behavior on others
• assess the accuracy of their knowledge about differences
• limit the influence of stereotypes
• reduce conflict
• transform knowledge into acceptance and empathy
• embrace diversity as a source of organizational strength

The Discovering Diversity Profile® is completely confidential and provides an effective tool to help employees explore diversity in the following key areas:

Knowledge: Discover what they actually know about differences by looking at stereotypes and at the source of their knowledge or information

Understanding: Decipher their level of awareness and explore their willingness to put themselves in a position to feel what others may be feeling

Acceptance: Examine their patience and regard for respecting different beliefs and behaviors

Behaviour: Assess how they act out their attitudes toward others, their flexibility and openness in dealing with others, and their self-awareness of patterns of interaction

Responding effectively to diversity issues takes the commitment and understanding of every individual in the organization. Meet the challenge with this program and turn inclusion into a success strategy.

The Discovering Diversity Profile® is available on paper and on-line. Click here to view a sample report.

The Discovering Diversity Profile Facilitator's Kit includes:
• Facilitator's Manual
• Scripted Seminar
• Presentation Materials on CD-ROM
• Two Profiles

If you are facilitating a Diversity workshop, you can further customize your session by viewing the group report prior to the session. The Group Report provides a snapshot of the group in four key areas of diversity development. Facilitators and trainers use it to quickly zero in on the needs of the participants, the group, and the organization. All the information is anonymous, so the report can be used as a facilitation tool while safeguarding the confidentiality of the respondents.

Click here to view a sample group report.

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