Discovering Diversity Profile

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The Discovering Diversity Profile helps employees learn how they personally respond to workforce diversity issues and where they need to develop increased understanding. It is the foundation on which authentic communication, acceptance, teamwork and successful futures will be built.

Explore Diversity Issues in Four Key Areas

The Discovering Diversity Profile guides employees through a journey of self-discovery as they respond to eighty questions in four key diversity areas:

Knowledge — Stereotypes and Information are assessed as employees explore what they actually know about differences and where that knowledge comes from.

Understanding — Awareness and Empathy are measured as employees discover how willing they are to put themselves in a position to feel what others may be feeling

Acceptance — Tolerance and Respect are examined as employees assess how patient and respectful they are of diverse behaviors and backgrounds.

Behavior — Self-awareness and Interpersonal Skills are measured as insight is provided into how employees act out their attitudes toward others.

Discover Your “Comfort Level” with Differences

After recording and tallying responses to the profile, learners are guided 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 included.

Gain Insight, Take Action, Value Diversity

The Discovering Diversity Profile helps people in your organization:

• discover their personal comfort level with people 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

As the dramatic shift to a highly diverse workforce continues, organizations, large and small, know they must do a better job of helping all workers understand, accept and capitalize on differences. They know the cultural backgrounds and experiences of diverse employees and customers can deeply enrich the organization, making it more innovative and globally competitive. But realizing the benefits of diversity means meeting the diversity challenge through self-awareness and commitment.

That commitment must begin at the top. Leaders who truly value diversity want more than compliance. They know hidden resentments and misperceptions impact company productivity, profitability, and employee motivation and satisfaction. And they know commitment to diversity grows only as the self-awareness and personal accountability of each individual in the organization grows.

Discovering Diversity Profile
Facilitator's Kit

Price: $600.00 On-line Price 10% off, you pay: $540.00 Quantity:

The Discovering Diversity Profile Facilitator's Kit provides expert information and support to corporate trainers and diversity practitioners in using the profile competently and confidently in a variety of training initiatives.

Designed to provide HRD, training, speaking and management professionals with practical, research-based expertise.

The kit will help you:

• provide a self-directed scoring and interpretation process that actively engages the learner in the context of personal experience
• simplify complex issues to increase understanding
• create a non-judgmental language for exploring awareness, attitudes and behavior related to diversity issues
• assess knowledge of differences
• enhance interpersonal skills
• increase appreciation of differences
• foster self-awareness and behavioral insights for long-term performance improvement

The three-volume kit includes:

• Important training guidelines and competency checklist for first-time facilitators
• Complete profile administration instructions and two sample profiles
• Essential background on the profile and research and validity information
• Fully-scripted seminar, Building Bridges to Understanding, with field-tested activities
• Comprehensive reproducible handouts and transparency masters
• Reproducible handouts and transparency masters available as a Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation on disk, including handouts, notes and color slides. IBM compatible PC and Microsoft PowerPoint software required.

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