Harassment, whether direct or indirect, takes many forms. Innuendos, slurs, mimicking, jokes, leering, intimidation, touching, gesturing, threats, rumors and the list goes on. Unfortunately, forms or harassment are taking place every day within most organizations. And, unless disrespectful behavior is recognized and appropriate action taken, it will continue and lead to low morale, poor productivity and turnover.
Key Training Points
Get in touch with your feelings and express your reactions to the situational dramas presented in the video
Recognize and discuss direct and indirect forms of disrespectful behavior between coworkers and outside customers
Learn and role play (optional) the most effective approaches to confronting the harasser directly
Recognize that it may be necessary and appropriate to report harassment to a manager or a human relations person in the organization.
This is an interactive learning session that will take between 45 minutes and 1 hour is used as designed. A variety of situations are presented as acted-out scenes. Each scene has a number which appears in the lower right corner. Scenes center around situations regarding: age, race, religion, sexual preference or orientation, sex or gender, weight, language or national origin, insensitivity by managers or supervisors, and rumors.
Length:17 min. in 3 viewing segments. Includes Training Leader's Guide
Help all your employees build their awareness and skills to succeed in today’s diverse workforce.
The attacks of September 11 have inspired our nation to rally together and stand united, but often in times of trouble when people bond together we actually become less inclusive of those who aren’t “like” us. In this time of tension and anxiety it is important for organizations to be more in tune with their employees than ever.
We all have biases and assumptions about people who are different that influence our interactions with them. Understanding – and then changing – our attitudes and behaviors is the first step towards creating a workplace in which everyone succeeds.
A Winning Balance II is a complete diversity training program for everyone in your organization.
A Winning Balance II will help all your employees explore their personal attitudes towards differences, and how these attitudes affect their interactions with others. But most importantly, it will give your employees the skills they need to become diversity change agents in creating a work environment and organization culture that furthers the development of each and every employee. Based on a diversity definition that goes beyond race, gender and ethnicity to include, rather than blame white males, this non-confrontational workshop quickly captures trainees’ attention and interest.
5 Dramatic Video Segments Explore the Topic of Diversity – On a Very Personal Level
A Winning Balance II introduces the topic of diversity and asks participants to consider why it is important to themselves and their organization.
Attitudes Towards Differences – features an experiential exploration of personal attitudes towards differences and how these attitudes affect our interactions with others. A series of black and white photographs are shown and viewers are asked to rank them using the Tolerance Scale. Each photo is reviewed a second time, this time factual data about the person is provided.
The Impact of Biases – features interviews with five people met in the previous segment. The people talk candidly about the impact of biased behaviors on their personal lives and careers.
Becoming a Diversity Change Agent – Short video vignettes highlight different behaviors based on the Awareness Spectrum. Here, participants will discover where they are located on the Awareness Spectrum – naïve, perpetuator, avoider, diversity change agent or fighter.
Making the Personal Commitment – Participants are asked to develop their own personal action plan to become a Diversity Change Agent.
Courseware included in A Winning Balance II Starter Kit:
Facilitator’s Manual with complete, step-by-step instructions for conducting the program and administering the exercises
Case Studies. This experimental curriculum motivates employees to help create and maintain effective work relations based on respect for differences and recognition of common interests. It addresses important core issues with exercises based on 11 realistic visual case studies-in-groups and identity groups, cultural and ethnic identity communication issues, stereotypes, the strain differences can put on relations, and managers who don’t respect differences. And it is available in two formats; a case study version for skilled facilitators and an expanded video-based version especially suited to delivery by novice trainers who have completed its trainer training course.
Participants examine thinking patterns to see where they come from, how they operate and how they can impact relationships and productivity. As they complete exercises, which reinforce, extend and apply the training concepts to build knowledge and skills, they learn from their peers’ diverse experience and points of view to build awareness. Instructional units may be presented in their entirety as daylong seminar, broken into shorter segments or individually licensed.
Key Training Points:
To increase awareness of perceptions and thinking patterns and how they influence relationships in a diverse workplace
To build skills and motivation that will help maintain effective work relationships based on a respect for differences and a recognition of common interests
To recognize and respect individual rights in a diverse workplace
Brainwaves: Case Studies
Thinking Patterns (6 minutes)
In Groups and Identity Groups (9 minutes)
Cultural and Ethnic Identity (9 minutes)
Stereotypes (6 minutes)
When Differences Strain Relationships (6 minutes)
When Managers Don’t Respect Differences (6 minutes)
Includes Training Leader’s Guide and Participant Manual
New Patterns. This experimental curriculum motivates employees to help create and maintain effective work relations based on respect for differences and recognition of common interests. It addresses important core issues with exercises based on 11 realistic visual case studies-in-groups and identity groups, cultural and ethnic identity communication issues, stereotypes, the strain differences can put on relations, and managers who don’t respect differences. And it is available in two formats; a case study version for skilled facilitators and an expanded video-based version especially suited to delivery by novice trainers who have completed its trainer training course.
Participants examine thinking patterns to see where they come from, how they operate and how they can impact relationships and productivity. As they complete exercises, which reinforce, extend and apply the training concepts to build knowledge and skills, they learn from their peers’ diverse experience and points of view to build awareness. Instructional units may be presented in their entirety as daylong seminar, broken into shorter segments or individually licensed.
Key Training Points:
To increase awareness of perceptions and thinking patterns and how they influence relationships in a diverse workplace
To build skills and motivation that will help maintain effective work relationships based on a respect for differences and a recognition of common interests
To recognize and respect individual rights in a diverse workplace
Brainwaves: New Patterns
Exploring Patterns (53 minutes)
Changing Patterns (35 minutes)
Creating Patterns (35 minutes)
Includes Training Leader’s Guide and Participant Manual
