Diversity in the Workplace Training: Building Bridges of Understanding
2 DAY COURSE

In this Diversity in the Workplace Training course, you will learn how to work productively in a diverse workspace to: 

• Increase your self-awareness and your awareness of others  
• Recognize and value human differences 
• Develop strategies for fostering organizational diversity

Diversity in the Workplace Training: Building Bridges of Understanding Benefits

• Develop awareness and knowledge of the many dimensions of diversity

• Identify the major components of culture and its influence on the individual and on relationships

• Examine the effect of group affiliations on individual identity

• Explore the costs and effects of stereotyping

• Recognize the stages toward an inclusive workplace

• Improve communication among diverse employees

• Test your knowledge in the included end-of-course exam

• Continue learning and face new challenges with after-course one-on-one instructor coaching

Diversity in the Workplace Training Outline

Module 1: Introductions & Overview

In this module, you will 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 about diversity, its dimensions, and its levels of uniqueness. 

Activity:

• Similar Differences 
• Who Am I? 

Module 3: How Culture Shapes Us

In this module, you will learn about culture, its layers, its value, and value programming.

Activity:

• 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

Activity:

• Portraits of Diversity
• Identifying Barriers to Inclusion

Module 5: Identity Groups and Stereotypes

In this module, you will learn about:

• Group identities and why they are important 
• What stereotyping is, what its pitfalls are, and why people stereotype

Activity:

• Why Do People Stereotype?
• Internalized Oppression; Internalized Pride
• Untold History

Module 6: Race, Gender, Power

In this module, you will learn about:

• Conscious and unconscious bias
• Key characteristics and types of unconscious bias
• Systemic racism and sexism
• Characteristics of dominant groups

Activity:

• 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 about the definition, axioms, and keys of communication.

Activity:

• Diversity Competence Skills