Effective diversity training will train employees on the following goals:
- Recognize the impact of workplace diversity.
- Understand its benefits and challenges.
- Create varied, yet cohesive, work teams.
Here’s a brief handout that outlines why diversity is important in the workplace—and how to make it work.
10 Ways to Maximize the Benefits of Workplace Diversity
- Respect and embrace differences among employees, and encourage your workers to do the same.
- Remind employees that diversity is a neutral word—it doesn’t mean better or worse.
- Create a level playing field in which all employees have access to equal opportunities and rewards.
- Establish a comfortable, inclusive work environment that encourages everyone to contribute his or her views, ideas, and suggestions.
- Capitalize on the variety of experiences, abilities, approaches, and perspectives different employees bring to the job, and remember that diverse employees can help you better identify and respond to diverse customer needs.
- Never think in terms of stereotypes—judge employees on their individual skills and abilities.
- Don’t assume the identity or racial affiliation of any individual or categorize workers because of physical or cultural differences.
- Focus on employees’ abilities—not on their disabilities.
- Do not permit insensitive or derogatory comments about any employees or groups of employees.
- Think inclusive—not exclusive.
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The material in today’s Advisor is adapted from BLR’s 10-Minute HR Trainer session, “Workplace Diversity,” which also includes a training outline and a quiz.
Every 10-Minute HR Trainer session, in fact, includes a trainer’s outline, a takeaway handout, and a follow-up quiz. And you get all these for 50 key HR topics right off the bat in the initial book—plus quarterly updates with more essential training.
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As its name implies, this product trains managers and supervisors in critical HR skills in as little as 10 minutes for each topic.
With this training resource, we’ve provided an easy-to-manage program that lets you train in discrete, 10-minute chunks. It’s a program that’s easy for you to deliver and that requires little time from busy schedules. And it’s remarkably affordable.
As its name implies, this product trains managers and supervisors in critical HR skills in as little as 10 minutes for each topic. 10-Minute HR Trainer offers these features:
Trains in 50 key HR topics, including manager and supervisor responsibilities, under all major employment laws and how to legally carry out managerial actions from hiring to termination. (See a complete list of topics below.)
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Uses the same teaching sequence master teachers use. Every training unit includes an overview, bullet points on key lessons, a quiz, and a handout to later reinforce the lesson.
Completely prewritten and self-contained. Each unit comes as a set of reproducible documents. Just make copies or turn them into overheads and you’re done. (Take a look at a sample lesson below.)
Updated continually. As laws change, your training must as well. 10-Minute HR Trainer provides new lessons and updated information every 90 days, along with a monthly Training Forum newsletter, for as long as you are in the program.
Works fast. Each session is so focused that there’s not a second’s waste of time. Your managers are in and out almost before they can look at the clock, yet they remember small details even months later.
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