Diversity Strategies That Pay Off!

Increase productivity, improve morale and create unity among workers in your organization while realizing breakthrough profits.

Eliminate time-consuming claims, costly EEO complaints, grievances and lawsuits.

Resolve disagreements before they become conflicts.

Diversity Awareness - Discover the impact of stereotypes and barriers to valuing diversity. Build knowledge of needs, values and attitudes of leadership necessary to address diversity issues within your organization.

Diversity Skills - Incorporate specific diversity skills immediately to improve the climate in your workplace. Learn norms of behavior that can be used increase effectiveness.

Diversity Strategies - Identify ways to tap into the unique talents of each employee to maximize productivity and enhance relationships. Develop preliminary action plans that allow participants to be responsible for their personal success and for the success of the organization.

Participants will learn how to:

· Self-check for the impact of stereotypes

· Listen with empathy to gather more accurate information

· Recognize and correct issues that can block full participation of all team players

· Develop leadership to contribute to company growth

· Manage disagreements before they become conflicts

· Conduct respectful dialogue with co-workers who are different

Length:

Programs range from a 4-hour communication workshop to a 5-day course.

Our Approach

Our approach is objective, non-judgmental, non-threatening and blame-free. Our facilitators create an environment that is conducive to open communication. We focus on dialogue skills, which allow individuals to resolve issues at lowest possible level. The focus is always prescriptive and not punitive.

We work with people to define problems and collaborate together in ways that work for them and for the organization. We assist groups to acknowledge any difficulties that they are facing and then lead them constructively to reducing these obstacles to move forward. We aid individuals in advocacy for open communication and dialogue about the issues they feel most need attention within the organization. We also collaborate with organizations to install management systems to encourage this level of employee involvement.

DIVERSITY CLIENTS GET RESULTS!

“I wish to thank C. Harris Companies for the continued excellent work.  I appreciate the fact that you and your highly skilled trainers took the time to really get to know our agency and then worked very closely with us to design a diversity training program that suited our particular needs.  I have been particularly impressed with your trainers’ skills and professionalism in dealing with sensitive issues surrounding race, gender, and equal opportunity.

John R. Ortego, Director
U.S. Department of Agriculture
National Finance Center

“The participants at your “Board Diversity and Teambuilding” session were extremely fortunate to have such a knowledgeable and well versed presenter.  I was truly delighted at the transformation of these board members from individual participants to group participants.”

Karen L. Gauthier
Volunteers & Training Programs Manager
Center for Non-Profit Resources

“I wanted to tell you how delighted I am with the Diversity Workshop that you and your team have been providing to employees of the USDA National Finance Center.  Participants are recognizing that they have the power to make a positive difference in the lives of coworkers.  As a former participant, I was impressed with your workshop facilitators, who were able to provide an atmosphere that was safe for revealing true emotion and free expression of ideas.  The teamwork exercises managed to pull all 25 very diverse individuals in my class into a single team by the third day.”

Donna S. Maeder
Equal Opportunity Specialist
U.S. Department of Agriculture
National Finance Center