Diversity: Valuing the Individual

This four-hour advanced course is a social building block for understanding diversity and developing skills for working in environments where the workforce is composed of diverse individuals.

The Gonzales Group course takes human resource leaders through a wide array of topics including race, gender, ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation, physical ability, and much more.

Recognizing the Advantages of Diversity

• Define diversity and recognize the many dimensions of diversity.
• Identify the value of diversity to high-performance organizations.
• Identify the impact of diversity on high-performance business initiatives.

Valuing Individual Contributions

• Identify qualifications that describe each individual's essential value.
• Explain how results are achieved through the unique contributions of each individual.
• Describe how individual differences and contributions are important to organizational results.
• Describe the impact of stereotyping.

Communicating Effectively about Diversity

• Review communication guidelines.
• Demonstrate effective communication techniques for dealing with diversity.

Leveraging Diversity

• Demonstrate how leveraging individual diversity can help meet business challenges.
• Write an action plan for leveraging diversity in your organization.

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