1. IDENTIFYING AND UNDERSTANDING YOUR CULTURAL NARRATIVE
LESSON 4 – BUILDING A WORKFORCE OF THE FUTURE
IDENTIFYING AND UNDERSTANDING YOUR CULTURAL NARRATIVE
ROAD TO ENCHANCED DISCOVERY
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2. LESSON 4 – BUILDING A WORKFORCE OF THE FUTURE
Session Objectives
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At the conclusion of this session, you will have:
Examined the basis for the assumptions made about other people and how those assumptions impact our communications, behavior, and actions
Explore what is your Cultural Narrative
Discover the importance of Cultural Diversity
Determine my role in working within a culturally diverse environment?
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3. LESSON 4 – BUILDING A WORKFORCE OF THE FUTURE
Me Mapping
Interactive Discussion
What do I look like?
Where do my people come from?
How might someone who doesn’t know me describe me?
Upon initially meeting what may be something someone might notice about me?
What is my first memory of being different?
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4. Background Conversation
MY STORY
THINK, BELIEVE FEEL VALUE
SAY
BEHAVIOR
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5. LESSON 4 – BUILDING A WORKFORCE OF THE FUTURE
Key Terms
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Diversity
Encompasses all of the ways that human beings are both similar and different
Includes dimensions such as race, ethnicity, age, gender, class, sexual orientation, and physical ability
Also includes other dimensions such as education level, job function, personality traits, and ways of thinking and being
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6. LESSON 4 – BUILDING A WORKFORCE OF THE FUTURE
Key Terms
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Inclusion
Leverages diversity by creating an environment with a broader bandwidth of acceptable styles of behavior and appearance
Encourages a greater range of available paths to success
Increases the total human energy available to an organization
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7. Business Reasons for Pursuing Diversity Diversity
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Interactive Discussion
Working with your group, create a list of the reasons you think organizations have for pursuing a diverse and inclusive workplace.
What are the possible issues that can impact an organization when diversity/inclusion is not part of the mission and goals?
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8. Factors Influencing Organizations Embracing Diversity/Inclusion
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Recognition that people have to interact and communicate with increasing numbers of people from diverse backgrounds
Increased global work in industries around the world
Awareness that the world population is growing at a high rate in developing countries
Understanding that income inequities and economic opportunity lead to increased immigration and migration within and between nations
The aging American workforce population means more retirees and potential gaps in availability of experienced workers
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9. Cultural Flexibility Awareness Quiz
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Interactive Discussion
Currently, how many of the 10 most populated cities in the world are in the United States or Europe?
1. None of the largest 10 is in the United States. The top 10 largest are:
Shanghai, Istanbul, Karachi, Delhi, Mumbai, Moscow, San Paulo, Seoul, Beijing, and Jakarta. New York is 14th and London is 16th.
In 1980, fewer than 1 in 5 Americans were considered people of color, previously known as minorities. By the year 2010, what were these numbers?
2. One in three people in this country are people of color.
Of all people currently entering the workforce for the first time, what percentage are white males?
Fifteen percent of the workforce entrants are white males. In 1964, 63% of the entrants were white males.
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10. Cultural Flexibility Awareness Quiz
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4. How much faster than the general population is the U.S. Hispanic/Latino population growing?
4. The Hispanic/Latino population is growing 4 times faster than the general population.
5. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the median annual income for U.S. white men, 25 years or older, who have earned graduate degrees, is $80,000. What are the median annual incomes for Latina and Native American women, 25 years or older, who have earned graduate degrees?
a. $80,000 and $80,000
b. $70,000 and $68,000, respectively
c. $60,000 and $62,000, respectively
d. $50,000 and $40,000, respectively
d. $ 50,000 an $ 40,000 respectively
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11. Cultural Flexibility Awareness Quiz
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6, What is the largest of all minority groups in America?
6. The disabled who are estimated to be 60 to 65 million people. 50 to 60% of them are unemployed.
What ethnic group remains the least targeted by many marketers of consumer products and services?
7. Asian Americans
8. Of the estimated 6 million homeless American youth, what percentage, identify themselves as
gay, lesbian and/or transgendered?
8. 20% to 40% of the estimated 1.6 million homeless youth identified themselves as gay,
lesbian or transgendered.
What is the current estimate of the number of different languages spoken in schools within major
metropolitan areas in the United States?
9. 36 to 52 different languages and dialects
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12. LESSON 4 – BUILDING A WORKFORCE OF THE FUTURE
Group Exercise
WHO ARE THEY?
Diversity/Inclusion Simulation
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Who Are They?
Instructions: Looking at each picture;
Describe the person
Give them a name,
Determine their age;
Their occupation
Their education
Their religion
Their hobbies/interest
Their family status
Their mode of transportation
Their most interesting life experience
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Who Are They?
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20. Diversity: Lessons Learned
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Diversity: Lessons Learned
Interactive Discussion
Each person can make a real impact by creating environments that foster feelings in others that says “you are valued, accepted and appreciated” for who you are.
Be aware- know your own biases
Think about how your “background conversation” affects how you see others
Consider how your behaviors can contribute to the success or failure of others
Challenge your assumptions about others
Work on what is takes to accept all people
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21. LESSON 4 – BUILDING A WORKFORCE OF THE FUTURE
Putting It All Together
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Creating and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace is everyone’s responsibility and requires the commitment and involvement of
everyone!
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22. Tips for working in and maintaining an inclusive work environment:
Putting It All Together
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Tips for working in and maintaining an inclusive work environment:
Understand and respect the work styles, customs, and values of co-workers
Always consider the diversity/inclusion implications on work tasks and teams
Recognize that diverse (cross-cultural) work teams require more work than homogenous teams
Inform yourself of the work done by people from different disciplines
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23. Putting It All Together
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Take advantage of opportunities to acquire and practice interpersonal and communication skills as part of building diversity competency
Create opportunities to get to know people as individuals
When you see friends, peers, and acquaintances demonstrating behavior inconsistent with the diversity values, challenge them to examine the impact of that behavior
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24. Putting It All Together
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Think about a member of your team or work group who may get excluded more than others, and consider a strategy for including them
Challenge the notion that individuals need to act, speak, or look a certain way to be successful or valuable
Recognize your own patterns of assuming, judging, and possibly stereotyping others and the impact these patterns may have on you and others
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25. Reflective Closing Thought
“Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.” – William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
Yale University Chaplin and Activist
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