Are you and your organization wondering...
"Can we make individual differences an asset, not a liability?"


Our increasingly diverse society is reflected in growing workforce diversity. Leading organizations acknowledge that working successfully with others who don't share the same background, beliefs or traditions is a top priority in the new workplace. Employees need help in assessing their behavior toward people who are different from themselves.
And they must understand the benefits of changing negative attitudes and resistance into appreciation and cooperation.

Build a Bridge to Understanding
The Discovering Diversity Profile® is a confidential and effective way to help employees explore diversity issues in the following key areas:

• Knowledge: discover what they actually know about differences as well as the source of that knowledge. Stereotypes and information are measured here.
  
• Understanding: explore their willingness to put themselves in a position to feel what others may be feeling. Awareness and empathy are measured here.
  
• Acceptance: examine their patience and regard for different beliefs and behaviors. Tolerance and respect are measured here.
  
• Behavior: assess how they act out their attitudes toward others, their flexibility and openness in dealing with others and their patterns of interaction. Self-awareness and interpersonal skills are measured here.

Gain Insight, Take Action, Value Diversity

The Discovering Diversity Profile® helps people in your organization:

• Discover their personal comfort level with people different from themselves
  
• Understand the impact of their behavior on others
  
• Assess the accuracy of their knowledge about differences
  
• Limit the influence of stereotypes
  
• Reduce conflict
  
• Transform knowledge into acceptance and empathy
  
• Embrace diversity as a source of organizational strength

Discovering Diversity Profile® Facilitator's Kit

Everything you need to administer the Discovering Diversity Profile® is contained in the comprehensive Facilitator's Kit. Designed to provide human resource professionals with practical, research-based expertise, the kit helps you deliver Carlson Learning Company's unique Discover & Capitalize approach to workplace learning:

• Provide a self-directed scoring and interpretation process that actively engages the learner in the context of personal experience
  
• Simplify complex issues to increase understanding
  
• Create a non-judgmental language for exploring awareness, attitudes and behavior related to diversity issues
  
• Assess knowledge of differences
  
• Enhance interpersonal skills
  
• Increase appreciation of differences
  
• Foster self-awareness and behavioral insights for long-term performance improvement

Facilitator's Kit includes:

• One Facilitator's Manual
  
• A fully scripted Building Bridges to Understanding seminar
  
• Transparency masters and reproducible handouts (bound and unbound)
  
• Research and technical background
  
• Two Discovering Diversity Profiles®

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