Opening Doors: Diversity as Creative and Financial Opportunity

Course Number:  081-KM
Recommended Duration:  1 Day

Intended Audience:  All Employees

Course Overview
This course could be defined as understanding, respecting, valuing, and leveraging our differences in order to create a workforce where all employees experience the doors of opportunity opening for them. This course will explore why each word in the definition is important. We need to understand differences to avoid fear and prejudice. We need to respect differences to avoid pride and arrogance. We need to appreciate differences to develop positive attitudes. We need to value differences to proactively embrace our potential, and we need to leverage our differences to become truly great.

Objectives/Topics
As a result of taking this course, you will learn to:

• Consider the business case for diversity

• Understand the legal framework of anti-discrimination laws

• Understand why businesses that “look like communities they serve” tend to be more successful than others

• Consider research that shows that the best business decisions are made when a diverse collection of ideas and perspectives are first considered

• Recognize and leverage the value of individual diversity in all of its forms

• Develop strategies for building long-lasting, diverse interpersonal networks

Prerequisites:  None