Diversity And Cultural Competence Skills Guide And Workbook

The best book on diversity management available! Based upon the latest research, this is perhaps the greatest tool ever developed to help leaders and employees of all-levels develop the number one game-changing skill. Scholars agree that in order to gain and maintain a competitive advantage in an industry, leaders must be more culturally competent and learn to effectively leverage the diversity of their team. Cross-cultural competence is comprised of everything from knowing how and when to listen, to realizing that other people may work or learn through different path than yours. This workbook breaks down key concepts from the latest research to help you grow your cultural competence and take your skills for managing diversity to greater levels in a step-by-step approach. Read the short lessons, reflect, then build your skills by doing the short writing assignments at your own convenience. Visit www.SupervisionEssentials.com for other great training products and leadership lessons.

This is perhaps the greatest tool ever developed to help leaders and employees of all-levels develop the number one game-changing skill. In order to gain and maintain a competitive advantage in an industry, leaders must be more culturally competent and learn to effectively leverage the diversity of their team. Cross-cultural competence is comprised of everything from knowing how and when to listen, to realizing that other people may work or learn through different path than yours. This workbook is breaks down key lessons to help you grow your cultural competence and take your skills for managing diversity to greater levels in a step-by-step approach.

Designed to help employees in all positions and areas of an organization develop knowledge, awareness, and skills for valuing diversity and creating a truly inclusive environment, this workbook will also help you understand your organization's diversity initiative and your role in supporting it. Upon completing the workshop, you will: Understand and value diversity. Appreciate why cultural competence is important for you as an individual. Discover why your organization is undertaking an effort to create true inclusion and to value diversity. Analyze your own perceptions, strengths, and developmental areas in becoming a champion of diversity. Learn skills to increase your level of cultural competence. Determine how to help eliminate structural inequality to create a truly inclusive organization. Create a personal diversity action plan. This Diversity Mosaic Participant Workbook includes everything each employee needs to know to increase awareness and make the most of the diversity initiative: 360-degree assessment, instructions for assessors content, template letter, perforated observer forms, and scoring sheet.

This concise and practical resource is designed to help readers develop their professional expertise in dealing effectively with cultural diversity. The author focuses on four skills: identifying and understanding diverse cultures, including personal cultures; learning the barriers to effective communication; practicing personal cultural competencies, such as dialogue and conflict-recovery; and designing and implementing organizational changes to foster diversity competence. This interactive workbook is filled with tips, worksheets, self-tests, and strategies.

This book serves as a comprehensive, practical, and workshop-based program that facilitates change agents to help organizations and people develop cross cultural skills and global competence. It is grounded in the most rigorous and relevant theories, research, and learning methods and makes them easily accessible and fun to apply.

'Managing Cultural Diversity in Technical Professions' provides managers of technical professionals with clear and tested strategies to improve communication and increase productivity among culturally diverse technical professionals, teams, and departments. Dr. Laroche outlines the differences in education and training, career expectations, communication styles, and management expectations in countries around the world. He explains cross-cultural concepts and presents his case for the importance of cross-cultural competence supported by hard data, including charts, tables, and readily accessible schematics. You'll benefit from the author's experience and expertise as a manager and consultant in this area, illustrated by numerous anecdotes, critical incidents, and mini case studies, centered around two central themes: * Most technical professionals do not recognize the impact of cultural differences in their work * Cross-cultural issues lead to a significant under-utilization of talent and affect productivity negatively 'Managing Cultural Diversity in Technical Professions' offers proven tactics for improving your personal effectiveness and the efficiency of your multicultural teams, breaking the communication barrier in the multicultural workplace.

Cultural competence is key to improved student achievement This book shows you how to provide professional development for teachers that deepens their cultural understanding. The authors provide activities to help educators translate new knowledge into action with activities that focus on the three inseparable insights required for developing teachers’ critical cultural competency: Understanding themselves Understanding their students Understanding their students’ families and communities Readers have access to a companion website that contains reproducible resource lists and handouts as well as examples that can serve as models for some of the activities.

'Leveraging Diversity' is designed to help business leaders and diversity practitioners alike conquer the complexity and take advantage of the opportunities associated with working productively with diversity.