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The 50 activities in this resource book have been tested with hundreds of participants to ensure their appropriateness and effectiveness for a variety of diversity training needs. Employees at all levels will be stimulated by interactively learning about cultural and gender differences, and mastering new skills for communicating more effectively in our diverse workplaces. Each activity is ready to use and includes trainer's notes and all necessary handouts and overhead transparency masters. They each take between 15 and 45 minutes to complete.
Activities Cover
Diversity icebreakers
Change
communication
conflict resolution
Gender at work
Culture and career transitions
Training Objectives
Illustrate how cultural differences may impact behavior
Increase awareness of the impact of culture in the workplace
Demonstrate skills for managing a culturally diverse work force
Here is a fantastic Black History celebration resource for your organization. This CD-ROM contains Black History biographies (use in your ezines or newsletters) of 38 African-American men and women who have made a contribution to the United States, 3 in-depth biographies, Quotations from Black History icons, dozens of Black History images, and the complete texts of Frederick Douglass' Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, and Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery.
CD-ROM Details:
Ralph Abernathy
Richard Allen
Benjamin Banneker
Ida Wells-Barnett
Mary McLeod Bethune
George Washington Carver
Alexander Crummell
Paul Cuffe
Charles Drew
W.E.B. Du Bois
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
James Farmer
Jessie Fauset
E. Franklin Frazier
Lorraine Hansberry
Benjamin Hooks
James Langston Hughes
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Zora Neale Hurston
Jesse Jackson
Harriet Jacobs
Joe Louis
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thurgood Marshall
Cynthia A. McKinney
Carole Moseley-Braun
Colin Powell
A. Philip Randolph
Jackie Robinson
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Margaret Walker
Booker T. Washington
Ida Wells-Barnett
Roy Wilkins
August Wilson
Malcolm X
Andrew Young
Whitney M. Young, Jr.
3 In-depth biographies:
Benjamin Banneker - Inventor and writer
Charles L. Reason - Mathematician
Thomas Fuller - Human Calculator
Quotations on Life from Blacks
Nearly 200 quotations for ezines, newsletters and reading enjoyment.
Dozens of Black History images & photographs
2 complete Books:
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
This is a great companion piece to Hope Deferred, a binder of articles, speeches, and documents.
When individuals or organizations face significant situations or challenges, one of the first priorities is to understand the issues involved and to work out what needs to be done. In many cases, we do not need any formal assistance to help this process and can think our way through the steps that seem to be most appropriate. However, on occasion the issues or the problems may not be entirely clear and a structured approach can help considerably.
To meet this need, simple and easy-to-use but comprehensive diagnostic assessment profiles help people understand their skills or the situations they face more effectively.
The Cultural Diversity and Awareness Profile will help individuals understand how much awareness and commitment exists towards the diversity of individuals and different backgrounds in their organization.
This ground-breaking new video explores the concept of diversity, and how organizations must evolve their approach to this topic in order to remain competitive. Participants will learn:
Diversity means more than race and gender. Each individual is unique and different
Common fears and barriers to diversity
Avoiding stereotypes and bias
Communicating and solving conflict professionally
20-minute Video with Leader's Guide and 5 Participant Workbooks.
Establishing a comprehensive diversity vision is the first step to an innovative, supportive, and profitable multicultural environment. Including people of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds is absolutely critical to business success. In this group training video program, the participants explore the strategic components of a diversity program. They learn the process of creating a vision for diversity in your organization and, when the vision has been endorsed, how to implement diversity training.
If you want to receive the benefits of diversity, this book will help you understand what is necessary for diversity training and how to implement a workable plan.
This book works alone or as a nice campanion piece to the video Diversity Dynamics (above).
Like the feature film Glory, this movie tells the story of the much decorated 442nd Regiment through the eyes of its white commander played by Van Johnson. The 442nd Regiment, comprised of Nisei - loyal Americans of Japanese ancestry - exhibits heroism far beyond the call of duty, overcoming the Nazis as well as the extreme prejudice of white Americans who cannot accept "Japs" on their side.
In the entire course of the war, only 10 people were convicted of spying for the empire of Japan -- and all of them were Caucasian. The video comes with a information on the Japanese internment and context questions about fear and hatred.
During World War II the U.S. Government forcibly removed over 120,000 Japanese Americans from the Pacific Coast. These individuals, two-thirds of them U.S. citizens, were sent to ten concentration camps built throughout the western interior of the United States.
The dollar loss suffered by Japanese-Americans is unknown. After the war Congress permitted victims to seek compensation from the government, but failure to produce any documentary records demanded by the government was punishable by a $10,000 fine and five years imprisonment. Victims who had already lost thousands of dollars and several years of liberty to the federal government did not rush to take advantage of the offer. Those who did make claims often received compensation far below actual loss. Nearly fifty years passed before the U.S. government formally made applogies and redress.
The video comes with a information on the Japanese internment and context questions about fear and hatred. This video is a great teaching tool that utilizes the entertainment medium to enlighten.
Here is a collection of articles, documents, and speeches with limited reprint rights that you can duplicate and distribute throughout your organization. These instruments offer an exciting way to educate Americans about their history in general and about Black History specifically.
3-RING BINDER of 12 Articles/Documents/Speeches w/ limited reprint license
The Confessions of Nat Turner
Ain't I a Woman
Excerpts from: The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign (1853)
An address to the Loyal Citizens and Congress of the United States of America
Blood Red Record
Exploring the Buffalo Soldiers
Hope Defered
World War I African American Historical Record
African Americans as Infantry Replacements in WWII
Radio and Television Report to the American People on Civil Rights by President John F. Kennedy
Robert Kennedy's speech on the Death of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr.
This is a great companion piece to Black History, a CD-ROM filled with African American biographies, books, images, and quotations.
This workshop is a "how-to" workshop for developing skills for working with individuals from diverse backgrounds. Participants will learn how to prevent bias and discrimination and tap into the human potential of their diverse work force. The activities in this workshop provide a forum for the participants to practice their interpersonal skills, goal setting skills, and decision making skills in a number of diversity scenarios.
Each ready-to-use activity in the workshop takes 10 to 30 minutes to complete, and the workshop materials support 2 days of training.
Contents
Attending-Getting Involved with Diversity
Observing Individual Cultural Background
Acknowledging Point of View
Learning About Cultural Groups
Setting Mutual Goals
Recognizing and Resolving Bias/Offensiveness
Recognizing and Resolving Discrimination
Workshop Includes
217 Page Instructor's Guide with Facilitator's Notes and Transparency Masters
108 Page Fully Reproducible Participant Workbook with Handouts, Worksheets, and Checklists
This feature film on DVD starring Jackie Robinson (as himself) and Ruby Dee chronicles the rise of Robinson from UCLA to his breakthrough as the first black man to play baseball in the major league. The film deals honestly with racial issues of the time. The movie lets us realize how far we've come, by showing us what passed for racial enlightenment in 1950.
The video comes with a biography of Jackie Robinson and black history context questions. This video is a great teaching tool that utilizes the entertainment medium to enlighten.
Before there was Muhammed Ali, there was Joe Louis. Here was a fantastic boxer who was a hero to millions of Americans in the 30s and 40s. This feature film stars real life boxer Coley Wallace, Paul Stewart, Hilda Simms, and James Edwards. The DVD features actual fight footage of the real Louis in action.
The video comes with a biography of Joe Louis and black history context questions.
This video is a great teaching tool that utilizes the entertainment medium to enlighten.
Here is the amazing story of Black History told in movie clips, selected dramatic readings, and book reviews. This wonderful presentation, available in DVD or VHS, will stimulate and educate your audience. This video is an excellent program for Black History Month and any other presentation where you want to point out contributions by diverse individuals.
This video can be used as a stand-alone program or combined with questions and answers. It is both entertaining and informative.
This title provides a broadly based program to help individuals to understand the subject more fully and to help free themselves from any biases or constraining thinking about differences among people.
Big on training results, small on time and money One Page Coach® is not
literally one page, but relates to the use of a single page storyboard checklist
that summarizes each topic in a clear and sequential way, using text and images.
This gives facilitators and participants a framework for the subject matter
and maintains a "line of sight" allowing learning to be successfully applied.
One Page Coach® is a complete training system to help people learn effectively.
It helps facilitators and participants to prepare prior to a learning event,
gives clear and well set out learning material during the training course, and
suggests a range of practical ways in which to apply the learning once the event
is finished.
Each topic has two key prarts as follows: the participant workbook (measuring
8" by 11" in size). The workbooks average 68–72 pages in length,
provide comprehensive explanatory notes and a color summary storyboard on the
topic, and space for participants to write down notes if working through the
booklet themselves. The workbooks are designed for group training situations,
with discussion sessions, exercises, case studies, and role plays.
The second major part is a Facilitator’s Kit. These kits contain everything
that a consultant, trainer, or course facilitator needs to run a course. The
facilitator guide is comprehensive and clearly written. The kit comes with one
participant workbook and 10 sections as follows:
Introduction and how to use the whole package.
A suggested course outline and timetable to follow.
Train-the-trainer notes to help professionalize delivery style.
Trainer checklist.
Facilitator course notes.
Participant handouts (reproducible).
4-Color overhead masters.
Action planning templates for use after the course.
Other course One Page Coach® listings and contact details for further
information.
A CD-ROM containing a PowerPoint® presentation and an interactive train-the-trainer
program.
Workshop $495.00 (Item#PDDC-DCAF)
Additional Participant Workbooks $19.95 each (Item#PDDC-DCAPOC)
Organizations committed to diversity issues cannot afford to be without this valuable collection of tools. This comprehensive resource provides valuable insights and directions for exploring your organization's willingness and ability to function effectively in a multicultural environment.
It includes fully reproducible instruments to help you implement diversity efforts in your organization. All of the instruments are also included on diskette for easy customization.
Includes
15 survey instruments on diskette
Tips for using diversity surveys
Five dynamic activities for group/individual training
This is volume one of a new video series will change the way your organization educates employees on workplace harassment prevention. If you are training employees using materials produced prior to 2000, you might not be covering all of the necessary information. These two videos are the most recently updated programs on the market today and address the new employer guidelines released by the EEOC in October of 1999.
Use this video for training all employees—
With All Due Respect: Promoting a Respectful Workplace
Sexual harassment is not the only form of harassment we need to guard against in the workplace. Organizations today must train employees to avoid all types of workplace harassment. Without effective, up-to-date training for all employees your organization may face increased liability in sexual harassment or other types of harassment and discrimination cases. This new video will change the way your employees think about the workplace and their behavior toward each other.
Package includes 18-minute Video with Leader’s Guide and Participant Workbook
This video-based training workshop will help employees recognize the ways in which their organization is changing, evolving, and becoming more diverse. The Workforce Diversity program clearly demonstrates the value of diversity in the workplace and provides participants with the tools and skills necessary to work together in a multicultural environment.
Workshop Includes
20-minute Video
Five Participant Booklets (56 pages)
Leader's Guide
Self-study Instructions
Presentation Time
The workshop takes approximately 3 hours to complete. For time-limited sessions, use only the 20-minute video.
Workshop Objectives
Upon completion of the workshop, participants will be able to:
Make changes in attitudes and behaviors which are not conducive to working effectively with others
Have greater awareness of their values, attitudes, and behaviors and the impact these have on others
Recognize biases and stereotypes based on gender, race, religion, age, culture, disability, and life style
Develop solutions to diversity problems in their workplace
Licensing for unlimited reproduction of participant materials is also available. Call 1-253-759-6639 for more information.
For an organization to be successful, people need to understand and value the unique cultures of people from different backgrounds. Your organization should be aware of the positive economic impact diversity can bring.
This best-selling group training video program helps participants understand what makes people different. As participants learn to value differing cultures, they will take the first steps toward changing their perceptions and improving their interactions with others.
New skills will be needed as the future brings more cultural diversity and with it the need to build a shared culture of mutual respect and understanding. Complementing the best-seller, Working Together I, this group training video program takes participants beyond valuing diversity and into building diversity skills.
Participants learn more about the value of managing diversity at work. They also learn skills to work more effectively with people of differing backgrounds and how to put newly discovered values about cultural diversity into practice.
Like the feature film Glory, this movie tells the story of the much decorated 442nd Regiment through the eyes of its white commander played by Van Johnson. The 442nd Regiment, comprised of Nisei - loyal Americans of Japanese ancestry - exhibits heroism far beyond the call of duty, overcoming the Nazis as well as the extreme prejudice of white Americans who cannot accept "Japs" on their side.
This feature film on DVD starring Jackie Robinson (as himself) and Ruby Dee chronicles the rise of Robinson from UCLA to his breakthrough as the first black man to play baseball in the major league. The film deals honestly with racial issues of the time. The movie lets us realize how far we've come, by showing us what passed for racial enlightenment in 1950.
Before there was Muhammed Ali, there was Joe Louis. Here was a fantastic boxer who was a hero to millions of Americans in the 30s and 40s. This feature film stars real life boxer Coley Wallace, Paul Stewart, Hilda Simms, and James Edwards. The DVD features actual fight footage of the real Louis in action.
