Information and Education about Diversity, inclusion and Dialogue
As healthy organizations pursue excellence and adapt to the growing diversity in society, they often reexamine their long-term objectives and everyday behaviors in light of new complexities. Sometimes, a key tactic for doing this well is working through the often hidden and/or subtle conflicts about the way that social equity affects operations. Our clients engage us because they recognize that expertly presented information and active assistance about appropriate and healthy dialogue will help them find the optimum merging of traditional organizational goals and increased inclusion and equity. Our team goes about this educational process in a variety of ways, including:
Assessments to clarify challenges
Before we help any client accelerate their organization’s journey toward greater effectiveness, it is important that we, in collaboration with the client, assess the internal and external factors that are most likely to affect success. These assessments can take shape in many forms including the use of one or more of the following: on-line surveys, document review, environmental analyses, dialogues among leaders, and full-staff meetings.
Trainings and Keynotes that disseminate ideas and build curiosity about effective dialogue
As organizations move forward on issues of inclusion, they sometimes conclude that the best way to foster a positive shift among stakeholders is to provide a common training and/or dialogue experience where many people can be exposed to the same ideas - including ones that some people might not understand or be somewhat initially averse to. Clients rely on us to create scaled up experiences so that scores, hundreds, or thousands of participants will focus on establishing a common language and basic conventions that will foster a more inclusive environment.
Engaging, motivating, and empowering change champions
Organizations with successful strategies for fostering change know that at some point in the change process, they will need to recruit and engage a cadre of change champions who carry the momentum of transformation. Whether our clients need assistance in finding such folks or in re-igniting them after past engagement attempts that were less than successful, we work with our client partners to provide trainings for change champions that help them see the synergy between organizational success and their personal goals for the organizations.
Here is an explanation of our methodology:
David Campt offers an expert opinion during a podcast taping.