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UNDERSTANDING CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN THE WORKPLACE
Updated May 2008
About the Course
Understanding Cultural Diversity in the Workplace is designed for promoting understanding cultural diversity and the interaction of people from different cultures (including your work culture). Through interactive exercises the morning focuses on educating participants on key areas such as:
- Important legislation
- Your individual response to diversity
- The organizational perspective
- Compliance
- The Moral Imperative Approach
- The Added Value Approach
- Communication
The afternoon is spend in BaFa' BaFa'; a cultural diversity simulation exercise where participants come to understand the powerful effects that culture plays in every person's life. It may be used to help participants prepare for living and working in another culture or to learn how to work with people from other departments, disciplines, genders, races, and ages.
BaFa' BaFa'
- Builds awareness of how cultural differences can profoundly impact people in an organization.
- Motivates participants to rethink their behavior and attitude toward others.
- Allows participants to examine their own bias and focus on how they perceive differences.
- Examines how stereotypes are developed, barriers created, and misunderstandings magnified.
- Identifies diversity issues within the organization that must be addressed.
BaFa' BaFa' initiates immediate, personal change. This simulation makes participants personally aware of the issues around culture differences. Participants feel the alienation and confusion that comes from being different. BaFa' BaFa' shakes participants out of thinking in stereotypes of anyone who is different. They learn the value of all faces in the workplace in a safe, stimulating environment.
The whole point of the BaFa' BaFa' experience is to help participants understand that having a diverse work force contributes to the bottom line of the organization in very direct ways.
Options
NCG offers your organization two options at the same cost (note: booklets are required for each participant at a cost of $35.00):
Option 1: A one day in-service as defined above – Minimum participants – 12; Maximum – 36
Option 2: 2 sessions of BaFa' BaFa' each 3 hours in length - Minimum participants – 24; Maximum 72.
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