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Course Description

Today, the organizations with the most significant competitive advantage are those that create an inclusive environment that makes the most of their people’s diverse experiences, ideas, and talents. 

Course Outline

Valuing differences gives people practical skills and tools for exploring others’ unique perspectives, understanding and leveraging people’s inherent differences, challenging devaluing behavior, and creating an environment in which people’s differences are respected and utilized. 

  • Introduction: Learners complete a Styles, Abilities, and Motivations (SAMs) profile as prework. They review the SAM concept and complete an activity that illustrates how people have diverse styles and that there is value in the unique approaches and perspectives people bring to their jobs.
  • Exploring Differences: Learners, working in teams, use their own SAM profile to explore the value and challenges that varying styles, abilities, and motivations bring to the workplace. Recognizing that others’ SAM profile may be hard to uncover, learners identify opportunities to explore differences in the workplace.
  • Nurturing Differences: Learners watch video segments that illustrate the negative impact of failing to cultivate differences. They learn how the Key Principles can help nurture differences. Learners’ skill at using the Key Principles to nurture differences is tested in a quiz-show style game that asks them to answer “what would you say” follow-up questions.
  • Leveraging Differences: Learners, working in teams, create several ideas for making the most of people’s various SAMs in response to a fictional valuing diversity initiative. Members of each group divide the team roles among themselves based on their own SAMs. Learners identify opportunities to leverage the SAMs of teammates and partners in the workplace.
  • A Plan for Valuing Differences: Learners identify specific things they will stop, start, and continue doing to value differences in the workplace.

Learner Outcomes

At the end of this program, learners will be able to:  

  • Contribute their unique styles, abilities, and motivations to ensure the success of their work group and organization
  • Encourage others to contribute their unique styles, abilities, and motivations
  • Work more collaboratively and productively with people who have a variety of styles, abilities, and motivations
  • Leverage the talents of their coworkers to achieve better results
  • Contribute to a climate in which people's differences are respected and utilized

Notes

Learn about more leadership development topics here

Recommendations

It is suggested that participants complete Communication: Connect through Conversations prior to taking this course.

Accrediting Associations

Applies Towards the Following Certificates

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Type
Classroom: Instructor Led
Days
M
Time
1:00PM to 5:00PM
Dates
Jun 24, 2024
Schedule and Location
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Contact Hours
4.0
Location
Delivery Options
On Campus  
Course Fee(s)
MGT662 non-credit $595.00
Potential Discount(s)
CEUs
0.4 to 0.4 CEUs
Section Notes

Enrollment Deadline is Monday, June 17, 2024 at 5 PM.  Beyond this date, please call 314-935-4444 to register.

Parking, lunch and refreshments are provided.

CANCELLATION POLICY

A full refund will be given when a registrant cancels more than five business days prior to the start of the class. Cancellations received within 5 business days of the start of the class and no-shows will be billed in full. Another person may be substituted at any time at no additional charge. 
A request to transfer a class to a future date can only occur if the request is more than 5 business days prior to the start of class.  Otherwise, the request will be considered a cancellation and the policy will apply.

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Type
Virtual: Instructor Led
Days
Th
Time
4:00PM to 8:00PM
Dates
Dec 05, 2024
Schedule and Location
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Contact Hours
4.0
Location
Delivery Options
Virtual  
Course Fee(s)
MGT662 non-credit $595.00
Potential Discount(s)
CEUs
0.4 to 0.4 CEUs
Section Notes

Enrollment Deadline is Thursday, November 28th, 2024, at 5:00 PM CST. Beyond this date, please call 314-935-4444 to register.

THIS IS A VIRTUAL COURSE--Attendee can participate from a location of their choosing. The live instructor teaches the course and provides the opportunity for remote attendees to participate in discusses and exercises with both in-person and remote attendees. Some courses involve hands-on activities and labs. These activities are performed via a secure cloud-accessible environment. Live online courses are through Zoom; Video camera, microphone and speakers are necessary to participate in this class.

CANCELLATION POLICY

A full refund will be given when a registrant cancels more than five (5) business days prior to the start of the class. Cancellations received within 5 business days of the start of the class and no-shows will be billed in full. Another person may be substituted at any time at no additional charge. 
A request to transfer a class to a future date can only occur if the request is more than 5 business days prior to the start of class.  Otherwise, the request will be considered a cancellation and the policy will apply.

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