Perspective FIT Description

The course explores diversity from an opportunity rather than an enforcement perspective. In that exploration diversity is examined in the light of how individual and group perspective/belief creates or blocks the opportunity for real diversity.

The course first explores the powerful opportunities a diverse culture can unleash. Those opportunities are then explored in the context of how they are either unleashed or blocked by individual and group beliefs, stereotypes, prejudices and assumptions. Participants explore where both productive and poisoned perspectives originate and how to manage those perspectives to create leverage for positive results and a reduction of negatives.
Using the Galileo Reality Model people learn a simple process for identifying, weighing and (where appropriate) changing their beliefs to create an environment more conducive to leveraging diversity in the workplace.
In the final section of the course participants learn and begin the process of planning for and structuring a diverse organization using research and insights from some of the best minds in the world of developing diverse and productive organizations including Dr. W. Terrell Jones.

This is a one day seminar. Materials for post-seminar goal tracking and coaching are included.

Participants learn the critical three way connection between individual perspective, individual preference and individual approaches to diversity.
Participants learn how differences acquire accurate or inaccurate valuations and how those valuations drive perceptions that may or may not be productive.
Participants explore the impact of perception on both human dynamics and organizational success.
Participants learn how to explore the connection between needs, beliefs, behaviors and results and how those connections can be surfaced, explored and productively challenged in the context of their diversity and their impact on organizational inclusion and leverage.
Participants learn a personal leadership, coaching and planning process for building a diverse organization by affirming, valuing, managing and leveraging diversity in the most practical and productive ways possible.