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Making A World of Difference in the Workplace™ (Healthcare)
The workplace is much more diverse. So your employees, managers and executive team need to know it’s important that they use cultural competency skills to interact and communicate respectfully with patients and their families. The bottom line: By better understanding your patients, YOU can make a world of difference in their lives and within your organization.
I Just Can't Risk It
Digitally Remastered! As managers, supervisors and leaders, we have a responsibility to hold each other to the same standard as everyone else. Sure, they might be our friends. But we can't make exceptions. We must let them know that they need to help set the example. And anything they do that violates any part of our Code of Conduct or program - like retaliating against someone for reporting a violation - seriously undermines our organization's culture of integrity.
M.E.E.T. Zero Tolerance: Enforcing Zero Tolerance with Fairness and Respect
Enforcing a zero tolerance policy can put managers and supervisors in a tough position. With no gray areas, second chances or margins for error, they must handle each situation properly to avoid legal repercussions for themselves and their organizations. This program adapts the M.E.E.T. approach to help managers and supervisors deal with zero tolerance situations respectfully, legally and consistently.
M.E.E.T.: Breaking New Ground.™ Respect and Inclusion - Inappropriate Workplace Comments
This version of M.E.E.T.: Breaking New Ground™ focuses on how unconscious biases, micro-inequities and non-inclusive behavior through our words and actions can lead to serious conflict in the workplace. This short tackles inappropriate expressions, joking in the workplace and cross-cultural miscommunication.
M.E.E.T.: Breaking New Ground.™ Respect and Inclusion - Inappropriate Workplace Thoughts
This version of M.E.E.T.: Breaking New Ground™ focuses on how unconscious biases, micro-inequities and non-inclusive behavior through our thoughts (and even actions) can lead to serious conflict in the workplace. This program tackles hidden biases, inappropriate assumptions, diversity moments, sexual orientation and differences in organizational culture.
Eid-Ul-Fitr
The concept of inclusiveness within a diversity context; an example of why it's important to consider non-mainstream religion and the impacts our actions have on maintaining an inclusive workplace.
Everyday Diversity™ An Introduction to Diversity Recruiting & Hiring
Are you curious how diversity can help your team be more innovative and impact your culture? To begin, we need to know that diversity is a term that doesn’t apply to just a few things … like race and gender… diversity also encompasses people from different cultures or regions of the country. Or, it could be people of different ages or educational backgrounds.
Everyday Diversity™ Avoiding Bias in Hiring
Bias impacts how we see candidates and often limits our ability to find and hire the best talent. Why? Because we often make assumptions about the candidates. Everyone makes assumptions about others... it's a natural part of how we interact with each other. Probably more times than we'd like to admit, we let appearances impact the way we think and treat others.
Everyday Diversity™ Exploring Filters
When it comes to interacting with others in the workplace, we all have filters. Our filters are made up of our experiences, our upbringing, beliefs… and so much more. When it comes down to it, these filters impact how we perceive and understand the world around us. The key is learning how to use these filters to our advantage!
Everyday Diversity™ Keeping Diverse Candidates
So, you hired the candidate you’ve been looking for? Well, your job’s not done. You simply can’t let them fend for themselves. You need to work on keeping them… by making a conscious effort to make them feel included – AND an integral part of the organization. How do we do that? First, introduce them to people in the company who can be of assistance – on the big and the small stuff.
Everyday Diversity™ Selecting Diverse Candidates
How important is it to select diverse candidates? Conventional wisdom says that having team members who are all alike… makes working together easier… and that may be true. But, when it comes to creative and innovative ideas, a diverse team gets better results.
He Doesn't Look Nearly As Good In a Skirt?
Understanding that assumptions (gossip or rumor) reported as fact can have a negative impact on diversity and inclusion.
I Can't Do Anything Right
Accommodating religious differences in the workplace.
Is This Any Way to Run a Hospital?
Dealing with culturally-insensitive remarks.
Just Give Me Another Three Days
Digitally Remastered! As managers, supervisors and team leaders, there are times when we have to make some pretty tough calls. It just goes with the territory. And when we're faced with those kinds of situations, we have to make sure we don't let short-term gains, like closing a big sale, completing a big project or hitting a production quota, take priority over the long-term integrity of the organization.
M.E.E.T.: Breaking New Ground™ We Have a Way of Doing Things
Recognizing that diversity and inclusion go beyond race, gender, ethnicity, etc. They can and often do involve differences in organizational culture, including work styles and schedules, geographic and time-zone differences, occupations, and working on virtual teams.
This is Gonna Be a Train Wreck
Transitioning to a different gender is a deeply personal decision. There are many unknowns and the added stress of how the workplace, and even customers, will accept the transitioning employee is very real. There are a variety of Federal, state and local laws that expressly protect workers based on their gender identity and sexual orientation.
Those People
Being frustrated from time to time with a coworker is natural and understandable. But when we perpetuate stereotypes about people based on things like their appearance or where they come from, that’s unprofessional. It's disrespectful. And, it may often be prohibited by policy.
Trust Me, It's Not Anonymous
Digitally Remastered! One of the biggest fears employees have about reporting potential violations is that their name or reports won't be kept anonymous or confidential. So, when we learn about employees who have concerns about any part of our business ethics and compliance program, we need to take the time to explain how our program works and encourage employees to speak up about anything they think could be a problem.
Why Don't They Just Speak English?
Understanding how “diversity moments” can be created by cross-cultural miscommunication and misunderstandings.