Management Programs

While diversity trainers do a good job training the "softer issues" in diversity, there are still some issues that many find more difficult to train. This workshop is designed to provide trainers with a step-by-step curriculum for delivering training and education on the tougher issues, including racism, privilege, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, and oppression.

You will enhance your skill in developing and delivering diversity training by exploring:

• Methods for identifying and planning how to present the most difficult issues
• Training techniques, models, and ideas that get diversity messages across
• Delivery skills critical for successful diversity training and information dissemination

Key Topics

• Why certain issues are so difficult
• Why trainers avoid these issues
• Cultivating allies
• Addressing institutional racism
• Collusion: what is it, how to avoid it, how to address it
• Privilege: recognizing it and helping others recognize it through training
• Religion: helping people recognize religious bias
• Sexual orientation: helping people understand heterosexism and its potential negative impact on working relationships
• Gender identity: the issues, the approach, the workplace
• Oppression: what is it, how does it affect the workplace
• Addressing backlash
• Introspection: assessing your own comfort with these issues
• Confronting the issues, respecting the people
• Legal issues

Special Features

Delivery and critique delivery of a training module; training demonstrations, application sessions, and critique; a step-by-step curriculum

Who Will Benefit

HR, EEO/AA, diversity managers, consultants, and those with responsibility for training; anyone in an organization who wants to learn the correct way of addressing these issues

Prerequisite

Experience in training design and delivery such as would be gained by taking The Essentials of Developing and Delivering Diversity Training.

Instructors

Dottie Reese, Loretta Hobbs