Workplace Essentials Training

Celebrating Diversity

Do you find yourself paralyzed in front of people who are different from you? Are you worried that if you say or do the wrong thing you'll offend someone, or worse, find yourself at the centre of a lawsuit? You're not alone. In the past ten years, the workforce has changed dramatically. More than ever, a workplace is a diverse collection of individuals proud of whom they are: their gender, their sexual orientation, their religion, their ethnic background, and all the other components that make an individual unique. The challenge becomes: how can we make these diverse individuals work as a team? We all know what happens to organizations that dont have effective teamwork: they fail. Failing to embracing diversity can also have serious legal costs for corporations. In this one-day workshop, you'll learn how you as an individual can celebrate diversity, and how you can help your workplace become a more diverse environment.

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Office Ethics and You: Making Good Decisions

What exactly makes a decision ethical? The problem with ethics is that what may seem morally right (or ethical) to one person may seem appalling to another.

If your supervisor said any of these things to you right now, what would you say?

Ø      We're missing key figures for that report. Just fill them in for now.

Ø      Just sign that contract for me.

Ø      Can you transfer this money to my personal checking account?

Ø      I want you to watch Susan and see what she does on her lunch hour.

This workshop will not provide you with an easy way to solve every ethical decision you will ever have to make. It will, however, help you define your ethical framework to make solving those ethical dilemmas easier. We'll also look at some tools that you can use when youre faced with an ethical decision. and, we'll look at some techniques you can use so you don't get stuck in an ethical quandary. Best of all, we'll look at a lot of case studies so that you can practice making decisions in a safe environment.

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