Also presented are the costs of not doing this work. Your company is doing this work because their future, market share, retention of talent, and performance depend on understanding and anticipating the needs of an increasingly diverse workplace and marketplace. You may have a resource or learning center where books, articles, and other support and educational materials are available. Now, you can even find cd-rom training programs for individual or small group learning. Multicultural calendars are made available to everyone, possibly through your intranet.
All diversity training is awareness based.
Diversity training should educate and empower all employees with new skills and tools. DTG is the first diversity training firm in the country to develop bookmarks, mouse pads, and screen savers loaded with new diversity skills and has distributed these items to employees after training to ensure skills are available and continuously used. A steering committee representing the whole organization must uniformly champion all of the initiatives. A formal mentoring program that includes and encourages all employees to participate is another potential diversity initiative. See my article on diversity metrics for more information.