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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

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