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Learning to value, manage and work with the considerable talents, abilities and contributions of an increasingly multicultural population is a business necessity for all organizations. To achieve this, Creative Learning Solutions offers Strategies for Valuing and Managing Diversity. This skill-building, strategy-based workshop/training is for people interested in answering questions such as these:

How do I effectively manage, mentor, work with and serve people who are different from me?
What needs to change in our organization, leadership and employees to accomplish this?
What do I need to learn and do?
How do we turn the diversity of our workforce into a competitive business advantage?
How will our business benefit? How will I benefit?

Diversity is made up of all differences: age, gender, race, culture, ethnicity, class, work ethic, religion, education, lifestyle, occupation, physical ability and many others.

Today's business requires cooperation and the inclusion of everyone's abilities. In order to develop the art of inclusion, we all need training and information to develop new skills in dealing with our diverse co-workers. Strategies for Valuing and Managing Diversity addresses the various issues of a diverse work force so that individuals and organizations can work with and retain quality, productive, and creative people of all types. We have the opportunity to learn to understand, value, and work with each other's differences; view these differences as strengths; and know that we have more similarities than differences. To meet the needs of the 21st century, diversity is one of the biggest challenges and also one of the biggest opportunities for business, managers, and co-workers. If we are to stay competitive in the marketplace, everyone's talents must be used.

UNDERSTANDING YOUR ORGANIZATIONAL ATTITUDES AND ASSUMPTIONS, AND MAKING CHANGES: Consultant organizational diagnosis of your existing work climate and diverse environment. We use surveys, focus groups and interviews from which to develop specific training information to meet your needs. Then Creative Learning Solutions trains groups to develop ongoing strategies that target specific areas.

LEADERSHIP SKILLS FOR MANAGING AND VALUING DIVERSITY: Business strategies, organizational communication, intercultural team-building, supervisory skills for mentoring and promoting, change agent skills, positive negotiation and conflict resolution techniques.

DIVERSITY SKILLS FOR LEADERS AND COWORKERS:Training in fostering the synergy of working with a wide variety of people. The training is with intact work groups or the company's choice of participant mix. Leaders and coworkers all need to be trained and will benefit.

SKILLS FOR WORKING WITH AND SERVING PEOPLE WHO ARE DIFFERENT FROM US: Information and skills training, coupled with the specific "how to" strategies and tactics, for coworkers Each session includes activities, participant interaction, practice, feedback and/or skill role playing.

Creative Learning Solutions' training offers participants information, support, skills, "how to" strategies and techniques to successfully work with all aspects of diversity in the multicultural workplace of today. The training, which uses adult learning principles, is experiential, highly interactive, engaging, enjoyable, and free of blame. It offers the opportunity to examine behaviors in a safe environment, and goes beyond awareness to include specific action steps.

Strategies for Valuing and Managing Diversity provides two culturally diverse facilitators, and is designed for your audience. This program is about making your employees more productive, which means making you money.

Business Strategies for Valuing and Managing Diversity