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Diversity Beyond The Numbers Training and Certification

These trainings, drawn from the book Diversity Beyond The Numbers by Gary Y. Adkins, challenge diversity practitioners to branch out beyond their narrow confines and assume a role in shaping the workplace as a whole. We address such global issues as open and honest communications, learning and development, and creating an engaging work environment. The objective of the trainings is to help you to build a diversity practice that deals with your organization in its entirety, with a goal of creating an ethical and engaging safe space where innovation and ideas can blossom.

Some of the elements that will be dealt with in the various trainings are:

The Business Case
  • Employer of Choice: demographics, talent shortage, immigration, Safe space for creativity
  • Provider of choice
  • Stakeholder of choice
  • Going Beyond Managing Diversity: acknowledging mistakes

    3 "C"s and 4 "I"s of Innovation

    Organizational Dynamics: The Organization as a Complex Adaptive System
  • The Vitality - Chaos - Rigidity Organizational Model
  • Chaos & Rigidity - disenchantment
  • Constructing Vitality, enchantment

    Organizational People: Identity Theory
  • Hybridity
  • Fluctuating Identities
  • Essentialism vs Social Construction: Dialogic relationships
  • Relationships that Matter: Relatedness
  • Primary Identity: Proactive vs Reactive Identities
  • Fundamentalist Identities and Ressentiment: Suffering as Identity

    Organizational Culture: Critical Social Theory
  • Surfacing the Social Constellation
  • Disrupt-Contextualize-Construct Methodology
  • Diagnosis - using complexity & identity theories
  • Conceptualizing, historicizing, deconstructing

    Disrupting the Misuse of the Diversity Wheel - Critiquing Managing Diversity
  • The wheel, labels, borders and boundaries
  • The wheel, conceptualizing vs categorizing
  • Metaphysics of Authenticity, energetics of generosity, ethics
  • Victimization and ressentiment, marking language as 'race' (e.g. Latino)

    Disrupting Organizational Nihilism, Legitimacy Crises, Business Communications and Anxiety
  • Legitimacy Crises: Trust
  • CVA, EVA, PVA or No-VA: stakeholder balance & Integrity
  • Anxiety Containment, Fear, Dread, Ontological security, stress
  • Complexity at the personal level, fragmentation to vitality

    Workplace Enchantment: Vitality Solutions and Ethical Pluralism
  • Diversity Vitality consulting: unearthing disenchantment without moralizing and creating victims, ressentiment
  • The Creative Power of Identity, Relationships and Knowledge
  • Getting to Ethical Pluralism, an overview
  • The role of dialogue: a communicative project
  • The Grammar of Conduct: Expectations and orientation
  • Accountability - centrality and role
  • Constitutional Project: justice, ethics, regulatory systems
  • Role of multicultural employee affinity groups, diversity councils, vitality assessments, educational interventions
  • Metrics and change modeling



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