You will be able to focus on interpersonal skills, behavior, and environment, to see how they promote diversity-positive interactions, as well as learn causes for discriminatory practices and create an action plan for increasing workplace acceptance and harmony.
Uncover and discard beliefs and attitudes that foster or block progress. By discovering your strengths as well as liabilities, you can build on the positive and move toward minimizing the negative. As a result, you will gain greater personal and professional satisfaction.
Find new perspectives and ways to turn challenges into opportunities. Become skilled at ways to further develop self-awareness and sensitivity.
Learn about how attitudes expressed in speech and behavior promote or hinder a positive work environment. Determine and apply steps for getting past prejudice for greater productivity.
Discover value in diverse perspectives and personalities and their benefits. Strategize ways to strengthen relationships and turn negative into positive interactions.
Online Class—Diversity – Building a Thriving Business Environment is a 4-hour interactive virtual class.
Improving Communications provided the conference attendees with a unique and useful perspective on attitude, perception, and communication. It was a refreshing break from the industry-specific topics that can dominate conferences. Attendees reported both professional and personal benefit from the sessions led by Dr. Atkins.
Jim Nyberg, Conference ChairRhode Island Association of Facilities and Services for the Aging (RIAFSA)