Use diversity to help your business succeed. I help you motivate your diverse workforce to improve workplace productivity and morale. Diversity is not just a buzzword, it’s a way to mobilize the talents in your organization by bringing people together to achieve common goals.

The Relationship Guy offers a comprehensive range of diversity trainings, workshops, facilitation and coaching to help you build a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Diversity trainings and workshops help create a dynamic and participatory environment where individuals learn specific skills and explore new approaches to workplace challenges. Workshops are individualized to meet the needs of the organization. Examples of workshop topics include:

Diversity Values Clarification – Employees explore and discuss the important values that guide diversity policy in the organization. Through guided activities, staff increases understanding of the values that are important to team members and the organization. Clarifying diversity values allows the team to work from a position of shared knowledge and understanding.

Strategic Planning for Diversity – Develop a plan that will guide your organization into the future and help you avoid diversity pitfalls. Take a methodical and proactive approach and design a structure that promotes and utilizes diversity in your company.

Team Building and Inclusion – Build highly effective and cohesive teams by creating a work environment of collaboration and shared purpose. Learn how to bring diverse employees together by promoting teamwork and defining common diversity goals.

Interpersonal Communication – Learn specific steps that help you increase understanding between diverse parties and increase collaboration. Build stronger listening, reflecting and conversational skills to promote two-way communication.

Organizations benefit from having an impartial outside person coach staff individually and in small groups to build diversity skills and achieve the company’s diversity goals. Coaching is individualized and focuses on promoting successful behaviors and personal accountability.

Individual Diversity Coaching: Targeted support for staff to help improve specific situations. Coaching helps individuals clarify what is happening in the situation and develop strategies to meet the challenge.

Group Diversity Coaching: Intensive work with staff to build a shared culture and purpose of diversity. Build stronger interpersonal connections through ongoing skill building.