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Diversity and Respect in the Workplace

Respect in the workplace comes from a foundational understanding that we are different from everyone else. Sometimes these differences are the big "D" differences such as race, gender or disability. Sometimes the differences that create judgement and conflict arise from small "d" differences - how we see the world, whether we feel our values have been compromised or ignored, how we see the work should be done, even how we think our colleagues should behave. In this workshop, participants explore:

1. what diversity really is
   
2. the consequences to ourselves, the organization and our colleagues of communicating based only on our perspective
   
3. how we create generalizations and stereotypes
   
4. how we develop our beliefs and how those beliefs affect how we see colleagues, the work that needs to be done, and how it should be completed
   
5. how we interpret our common values and how they play out in our everyday behaviours to create conflict
   
6. how we read into a situation what is happening and create judgements based on our interpretation of other people's intentions
   
7. strategies to move from diversity based conflict to understanding and reconciliation.
   
8. vital information about key areas of diversity in our workplace such as: generations, Aboriginal/non Aboriginal differences, religion, visible minority issues and physical disabilities