A Purpose and a Plan
Building Diversity Councils that Work
What It Is
This extended action learning partnership process enables the organizational group oriented on guiding diversity practices to focus on solid knowledge and processes to make their role both crucial and effective. Starting with a core group cultural analysis using the Intercultural Development Survey and Developmental Model of Cultural Sensitivity, a customizable time frame is developed that enables the group to understand its own cultural starting point, absorb best practices around workplace diversity issues, and develop a practical group mission and working strategy.
Objectives
Participants will:
- understand their own stage of development as well as that of their group/committee and the organization as a whole
- base learning on the organizational position of cultural development in order to more effectively tailor strategies
- develop a practical, effective strategy for approaching organizational diversity
Why You Need It
Unfortunately, it’s all too common for bodies tasked with addressing diversity in an organization, whether councils, committees, groups, task forces, etc., to have little or no direction beyond sweeping directives. Yet, for a diversity council to actually function, to actually make a difference in the workplace, it needs first to understand the cultural starting points of its members, then of the organization as a whole, in order to generate practical, authentic approaches to the multitude of workplace issues that arise around the topic of diversity. A front-end commitment to building a solid, working foundation council that both members and the organization as a whole can be proud of shows an attention to difficult issues that no simple directive can ever match.
Solid knowledge base + Clear working guidelines = A Purpose and a Plan
