Diversity Management Certificate - ILR School - Cornell University
Diversity Management Certificate - ILR School - Cornell University
Diversity Management Certificate - ILR School - Cornell University
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$1295 | Course DV221<br />
Fundamentals of <strong>Diversity</strong> Initiatives<br />
February 23-24, 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New York City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:00 to 4:30<br />
July 8-9, 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ithaca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:00 to 4:45<br />
September 14-15, 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . New York City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:00 to 4:30<br />
For at least the last two decades, organizations across America have<br />
implemented programs and strategies designed to help them manage<br />
diversity more effectively. Launching an initiative requires thoughtful<br />
planning and sound methodology. This course provides a proven step-bystep<br />
process for initiating or revitalizing your diversity initiatives by<br />
exploring:<br />
• The need for articulating a clear link between diversity and<br />
organizational performance<br />
• How to use powerful developmental models to assess, diagnose, and<br />
guide the design and launching of diversity initiatives<br />
• <strong>Diversity</strong> as an organization development (OD) intervention<br />
• Nine key diversity competencies<br />
Key Topics<br />
• The history and progression of diversity and inclusion<br />
• Implications for leading a diversity initiative<br />
• Avoiding significant obstacles<br />
• Identifying and overcoming resistance<br />
• The diversity change process step-by-step<br />
• <strong>Diversity</strong> competencies at the individual, group, interpersonal,<br />
and organizational levels<br />
• Cultivating allies: the proper role of senior management,<br />
line management, and employees<br />
• Building and clearly articulating the business case<br />
• The four organizational environments: monocultural, compliance,<br />
multicultural, inclusive<br />
• Best practices in diversity initiatives<br />
• Core skills and competencies of the diversity manager<br />
• Selecting and managing outside consultants<br />
• Legal issues related to diversity initiatives<br />
• Organizational assessments<br />
• Variations that inhibit diversity initiatives<br />
Special Features<br />
Extensive case study and application; class customized through pre-work<br />
to the needs of each group; delivery and critique of a diversity initiative or<br />
a revitalized initiative; critique and feedback by nationally recognized<br />
diversity experts<br />
Who Will Benefit<br />
HR, EEO/AA, diversity managers, and those with responsibility for<br />
launching, sustaining, evaluating, or managing diversity programs<br />
Instructor<br />
Lolita Chandler<br />
Updated<br />
best<br />
practices<br />
Call for Information 866-470-1922 | 5