Diversity & Inclusion

Training and Development is something that for years has been a cliché requirement for most. Today, we’d like to be part of the shift that creates opportunities to enjoy training, not endure it. Jesse brings his personal stories and experiences, fun & engaging sessions, team building at its core, and key takeaways from each experience that foster growth and development. Available for 60 mins, 90 mins, half-day or full day trainings and workshops.

If cultural competence is about bridging across differences that make a difference, then the work must start with a focus on self. Our identities and cultures inform our beliefs, values, assumptions and biases and thus influence the ways we think about behave when working and relating across difference. This workshop helps change agents explore their own cultural patterns and behaviors and links identity awareness to our capacity to make new and different choices to achieve equity or inclusion goals.

• Understand one’s own cultural context
• Increased awareness of influences of other cultures
• Common language around diversity, equity, inclusion, & cultural competency
• Ability to identify target identities and agency identities
• Practical solutions on how to serve your constituents better
• Diversity, equity, & inclusion implementation ideas.

Understanding bias in any workplace is the first step to managing it. This Workshop defines bias, describes how it affects the workplace and the people that live in it, and encourages learners to use the information and understanding to reduce the negative effects of what bias creates. This training facilitates cooperative conversations and actions directed toward growth and development rather than judgment and resistance. Can be offered as a group or individual coaching sessions.

• Engaging conversation about the affects of bias in the workplace
• Developing strategies to reduce bias in the workplace
• Defining bias as its current evolution
• Development of how power and privilege can create a more cohesive culture

You’ve been trying to figure out how you can engage your workplace in a more meaningful way around the topic of Cultural Competency? Well, allow me to introduce to you the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI). The IDI is the only developmental assessment of intercultural competence. This fundamental focus allows individuals and groups to focus on increasing their intercultural competence (from how they currently engage cultural differences to how they can more effectively engage diversity). This training facilitates cooperative conversations and actions directed toward growth and development rather than judgment and resistance. Can be offered as a group or individual coaching sessions
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• Insight concerning intercultural challenges you face
• Experience a series of activities and self-reflections that developmentally build intercultural competence
• Create clarity of intercultural goals important to you
• Developmental learning that increases intercultural competence in bridging across 
diverse communities and in the workplace
• How to build intercultural competence to create and achieve diversity and inclusion goals and outcomes

A team’s road to learning and practicing an intercultural approach inside the workplace must start with addressing the elephant in the room. Communication can be one of the greatest challenges for people. Whether it’s a significant other, a family member, a friend, or a coworker, healthy relationships take effort to main… and some more than others. What does its mean to listen with more empathy and understanding, communicating calmly and effectively, and learning to work with people rather than against them? Learning to communicate more effectively with coworkers is not simply about resolving conflicts; it’s about enhancing relationships and gaining insight about each other’s goals, preferred communication and conflict styles, and how to respond rationally.

• Improving listening skills, including empathetic listening and perspective-taking
• Learning to manage difficult relationships or problem-oriented personalities
• Learning to stop reacting emotionally, and instead respond rationally
• Getting clear on what you need and how to effectively communicate to get your needs met
• Gaining insight into how other parties might be feeling and what they might need

Communicating in a diverse, multicultural environment can be awkward. For example, someone might make a sweeping and inappropriate generalization to a coworker about what "his people" are like, causing discord. More subtle problems can involve the differences in how people from different cultures communicate. A gesture that's acceptable in one culture might be meaningless or offensive in another. How do you communicate well and be aware of cultural conflicts that crop up, even subtle ones? This workshop explores how to be aware of our own biases, and how we can make our work places a barrier free environment, so our customers get the best experience possible.

• Explore cultural sensitivity and how to be considerate of all employees
• Learn how communicating in a multicultural workplace is more challenging but even more valuable
• Increased awareness of influences of other cultures
• Getting clear on what you need and how to effectively communicate to get your needs met
• Improving listening skills, including empathetic listening and perspective-taking