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Diversity at Work Onsite Workshop Or Off-The-Shelf Program We take diversity personally. Our twenty years of experience in diversity programs has shown that it's only when people take diversity personally that they are able to turn it into a practice at work. In our nationally recognized diversity training, we do make the business case for diversity. But the way we make this last is by inspiring people to develop a personal commitment to diversity that enables them to manage it effectively everyday on the job. Take a look at our Diversity At Work Training Program below, which we can deliver at your site, or you can have your trainers deliver it themselves with our Off-The-Shelf program or our Train-the-Trainer Certification program. Call us for more information and a proposal: 1-973-427-3004 Or Email us at: service@communicationideas.com

We Can Train and Certify You To Deliver Diversity At Work to Your Internal or External Clients Learn and Get Certified to Deliver Two Most Popular Workshops In One Exciting Event: You will receive: ·         Cross Cultural Communication / Global Competency Certification ·         Diversity Training Certification   PLUS three more popular workshops in one exciting event: HumaNext 2007 Diversity & Inclusion at Work, and Cross Cultural Competency workshops are now part of our HumaNext 2007 event. Click for complete details: http://www.humanext.com/humanext-seminars.html

Our Special Approach to Diversity Training: We Bring You These Powerful Advantages 1- We Deliver Diversity as a Highly Positive Experience   Because our mission is to help people create a workplace where they would say, “Thank God It’s Monday!” our training delivers diversity as an upbeat experience that touches the hearts and minds of participants, contributing to a more enduring impact on behavior. From the first moment in the workshop, our “Opening Exercises” deliver mind-opening experiences that shatter participants’ comfortable “Business-As-Usual” frame of mind, and put them in touch with an exciting new possibility of learning and openness. Participants move from one dramatic experience to the next, absorbing powerful insights, sharing new thoughts and feelings, and learning to think and relate to others in new, more positive ways. Participants leave the workshop feeling highly committed to diversity and empowered to celebrate it and live it at work.

2- We Use a Variety of Delivery Media to Appeal to Various Learning Styles Our continuously interactive onsite training is a multi-sensory, multi-style experience that stimulates and appeals to participants' various learning styles. Our workshops use a Blended Media / Experiential learning approach for maximum learning impact. We using music, language, images, stories, activities, role-plays, and self-discovery tools to meet a variety of learning styles. We use stimulating quizzes, powerful role plays, mind-expanding activities, videos, music, and slides, all working together to deliver an exhilarating, passionately positive experience about diversity at work.

3- The Personal Case Leads to the Business Case Our extensive experience has shown that people will not commit to the business side of diversity without first adopting diversity as a personal commitment. Our training helps participants develop this all important “missing link” of diversity programs. The presenter, Francois Basili, offers his powerful, personal experience with diversity as a vivid example of how diversity touches everybody's life in a personal way, before even looking at its value to business life. We offer diversity training in a balanced blend between the business and the human sides of diversity. This presents diversity at its best. It helps people adopt it as part of their value system as well a way of doing business in working with colleagues and customers. We never present diversity in a heavy handed way, or in a condescending style. We deliver it with great respect to participants’ values, in a way that provides a model for participants to learn from and adopt.

4- Real Learning: Moving from Awareness to Skills for Working Together A lot of diversity programs stop at providing “awareness” of the concept of diversity at work, leaving participants with no specific skills that help them put this awareness into practice. Our training moves from awareness to specific skills in the areas of communication, interviewing, supervision, performance management, coaching and feedback, and teamwork. We don’t just deliver a highly positive motivational experience. We deliver real learning, with powerful concepts, day-to-day work examples, and practical skills people can use at work. A skeptical highly educated executive at the largest public library system in the US wrote in the evaluation sheet after one of our workshops:              “I thought the session would be a waste of time. I learned a lot.” Our simulation exercises / role-plays with coaching from the trainer provide practical opportunities for learning the   know-how of communicating and working together with sensitivity to diversity. The general concepts are put to actual work experiences right in the workshop.

5- Beyond the Classroom: Diversity as a Force for Culture Change Diversity training can be a powerful agent for changing the organizational culture and creating a positive, productive and respectful workplace. Diversity is not just a valuable concept in itself, but it also acts as a means toward other worthwhile ends. The applications of diversity concepts at work make it a force for helping people work together more effectively in a supportive, respectful environment. We help participants see and work with diversity as a corporate culture “state of mind” and “a way of doing business.” The training includes built-in tools to apply the learned skills on the jobs for months to come, helping create an organizational culture that values and celebrates diversity at work.

Basili's Diversity Training Covered by National Magazine Francois Basili ( currently president of Communication Ideas) as appeared in his interview piece by Hospitals Magazine, which covered his early pioneering work in diversity training in 1990. The Bureau of National Affairs invited Basili to participate in their video- based training program, “Bridges.” In 2003, Basili was twice interviewed by Diversity Inc. magazine on his views of the impact of cultural differences in the situation in Iraq. in July 30, 2003, Basili made a presentation on diversity to the attendees of the Strategic Research Institute's conference on Multicultural Equity in New York City.

We Pioneered Diversity as a Cultural Force. We Continue to Renew It and Move It Forward Our early work in diversity training in the nineties attracted national recognition from prestigious publications like Hospitals and organizations like The Bureau of National Affairs. Now we are pushing the envelop again. Our current work in taking diversity to its logical next step is achieving similar recognition. Our new training workshop, "Diversity at Work" is already helping leading organizations set a new standard for their diversity programs. Diversity At Work now offers the most comprehensive treatment of diversity in a training program.   We cover all key aspects of diversity, from CULTURAL ETHNIC DIVERSITY, to GENDER DIVERSITY, to GENERATIONAL DIVERSITY, to DISABILITY / ADA DIVERSITY. All with case studies, activities, and step-by-step instructions, supported by PowerPoint slides and participant workbooks.   How Men and Women Can Work Together More Effectively                                                Our Diversity At Work training program covers this fascinating area of inquiry into the different ways men and women think, communicate, and work together. The research-based content, case studies, and discussion in this area – often neglected by some diversity programs, adds an important, highly relevant aspect to your diversity program.     How the Mature Generation Can Work Effectively with Generations X and Y   Diversity At Work program also covers the new area of Generational Diversity at Work. We cover, with research based content and case studies, the key characteristics of the four generations of workers in today’s workplace; The Mature Generation; the Baby Boomers; Generation X; and Generation Y. Participants will be able to identify and better understand the value system and preferences of each generation, enabling them to work more effectively together.   How to Work with Persons with Disabilities   Diversity At Work also covers the area of ability and disability at work and offers guidance and case study relevant to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and its requirements for organizations and managers. Participants will be able to understand what the law requires and how to work more effectively and fairly with persons with disabilities.

Francois Basili: The Developer and Presenter of Diversity At Work Mr. Basili is a multi-cultural consultant with more than twenty years of US and international experience as a training/ HRD executive and communication expert. He led a number of major organizational/ cultural transformations in the US and abroad. He developed nationally recognized training programs and culture change initiatives that dramatically improved performance at some of the toughest work cultures in the US and overseas. Basili's innovative and pioneering work in diversity training has attracted national attention, with articles and interviews in The Ragan Report, Hospital Magazine, Diversity Inc. magazine, and others. He also collaborated with the Bureau of National Affairs in developing their pioneering Bridges diversity program, one of the most successful early diversity programs in the field.

Why Bring HumaNext (Communication Ideas) for Your Diversity Needs HumaNext / Communication Ideas is a consulting company that provides the full range of training and organizational development consulting. Having expertise in all the key skills needed by today’s workplace, from leadership, supervisory skills, and HR training to team building, cross cultural communication, emotional intelligence, and creativity means that these issues will be handled expertly by our consultants whenever they arise during a diversity training session. In addition, if you need training in other skill areas in support of your culture change or diversity initiatives, you do not have to bring in yet another training company with a different style and knowledge base.

We Also Offer Online Diversity Courses To Support In Class Training Our full training capabilities include offering online learning courses where employees can have access to a library of some of the best self-learning interactive courses available today. Free demo to try some of these courses is available. For example, after attending a workshop on diversity, employees can take our online course, Valuing Diversity for 90 days to strengthen their learning and practicing of diversity at work.

We Offer Diversity Assessment With or Without the Training We can perform diversity assessment for your team, department, or the entire organization. We offer both paper-and-pencil diversity profiling tools and online diversity assessment capability. We can do this in conjunction with our training programs, with it or without it according to your needs. Few other training organizations can offer these various capabilities.

What Participants Said About our Diversity Session at Stevens Institute of Technology Francois Basili delivered a ninety minute presentation on Diversity at Work and Cross Cultural Communication to the Graduate Program at Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey. Here are some of participants’ comments in the evaluation sheets: "Excellent presentation. Very informative." "Very helpful to understand our differences." "The speaker was very well prepared. Nice sense of humor." "Excellent role playing activities." "Very informative. I can change for the better." "Surely it is applicable to my work."

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We Offer These Options: We Can Deliver the Workshop at Your Organization, Or You Can Deliver It Yourself with our Workshop-In-A-Box Training Template Package. Or you can attend our Train-The-Trainer Certification program to learn how to teach diversity and cross cultural competency. Read below..

Option I: We Deliver at Your Organization You can have us deliver our powerful, nationally acclaimed “Diversity At Work” workshop at your site. Email Us at: info@communicationideas.com

Option 2: You Deliver It Yourself With Our Training Template or Certification Programs Internal training professionals and facilitators can purchase Diversity at Work Off-the-Shelf program in a customizable and reproducible MS Word Template format to deliver it themselves to their staff for just $395.00. (Regularly $495.00) We have created the ultimate tool to help you produce and deliver a Diversity at Work workshop that projects your organization's mission, message, and culture. We put all the key elements of our pioneering Diversity at Work Workshop in a friendly MS Word file template that you can customize and use. You will get all the important information you need to deliver, from the business case for diversity, the value of diversity at work, the respectful workplace, the relationship to Affirmative Action and EEO requirements, to creating diversity councils, and implementing diversity programs. The complete, customizable package of materials included in this program: Facilitator's Guide, Slides, Assessments, Handouts, and Participant Workbook, makes this ready to use program all you need to customize and deliver a powerful diversity awareness training at your organization, with minimum investments in time, effort and money. Just plug in your organization's logo, mission statement, diversity statement (We give you examples) and you have a complete program. Complete Diversity at Work Training Workshop in MS Word and PowerPoint Slides- License for one trainer: Buy Now at $100 Off the Regular Price of $495.00 - Just $395.00 Independent consultants  purchase a Consultant/ Multi-Organization License for $495   OR: Attend our HumaNext 2007 to learn with an optional post-event certification on diversity and inclusion and more. Diversity & Inclusion at Work, and Cross Cultural Competency workshops are now part of our HumaNext 2007 event. Click for complete details: http://www.humanext.com/humanext-seminars.html

Or Get Certified to Deliver Diversity and Cross Cultural Skills Unprecedented Opportunity.. Learn and Get Certified to Deliver Two Most Popular Workshops In One Exciting Event: You will receive: • Diversity Training Certification • Cross Cultural Communication / Global Competency Certification In two days of intensive learning, training, and certification. Click here for more information: http://www.newtrainingideas.com/global-competence-training.html Independent consultants may get certified to become a HumaNext Affiliate to deliver this workshop by attending the Certification Process above, or, if not interested in becoming a HumaNext Affiliate, may purchase a Consultant/ Multi-Organization License for $495

This Is Where Our Public Seminars Takes Place Simply, it is in the most exciting, and diversified, place in the world: New York metro area. New York has been called the Capital of the World, and the list of its credentials is almost limitless. You will be in the world’s most important center of business, finance, media, culture, arts, theatre, architecture, diplomacy, entrepreneurship, advertising, fashion, shopping, tourism, and, just about everything else. You may want to give yourself time to explore the many exciting things that are available only in New York; from the UN building, the Metropolitan Museum, the Empire States, the Statue of Liberty, Wall Street, Madison Avenue, Fifth Avenue, Rockefeller Center, Madison Square Garden, Central Park, Lincoln Center, Museum of Modern Art, Broadway, Radio City Music Hall, Tiffany, Sacks Fifth Avenure, the Hudson River, China Town, Little Italy, The Village, Soho, and so many other places we can’t even remember them all. Diversity & Inclusion at Work, and Cross Cultural Competency workshops are now part of our HumaNext 2007 event. Click for complete details: http://www.humanext.com/humanext-seminars.html

Imus and Five Diversity Lessons – A Case Study Imus is a famous radio and TV talk show host in the US. Last week, he made a racist, sexist remark about the young women Basketball team players of Rutgers University, who reached the final game and lost, to achieve second place in the country, a great achievement by all accounts. Even though Imus was used to insulting people and groups on racial and ethnic grounds under the disguise of “humor” and in the American tradition of protecting freedom of speech, he was fired first by MSNBC and then by CBS. What are the diversity lessons other organizations, and leaders, should learn from this? Read the article below. For no clear reason, Imus used a racist, sexist language to describe the young women athletes after their achieving a second place in the national college women basketball competition. Instead of saluting them, he insulted them, an act many people found shocking and offensive. When the word spread, the Rutgers Basketball team gave a press conference that captivated the nation. The young athletes, mostly in their late teens and early twenties, came across very mature and dignified. They, and their coach, spoke eloquently and logically about the needless, uncalled for insults directed at them by Imus and showed restraint and respect that was a glaring contrast to the street-level language and juvenile “humor” offered by the Imus show. The country immediately took the side of the young women. Meanwhile, a number of Black civil right leaders organized marshes and called for Imus’ firing. Proctor and Gamble, a huge advertiser on Imus show, decided to pull their ads, and a number of other advertisers followed. MSNBC, then CBS, canceled the Imus show for good. The episode was the talk of the country for several days. Five Lessons Learned Even though most businesses in the US provide extensive diversity training to their employees, it’s clear that some have not gotten the diversity message still. The consequences, as in the Imus case, could be the loss of tens of millions of revenue dollars, not to mention the loss of productivity and the cost of high turnover by offended employees. In many organizations, top leaders and the stars of the organizations do not attend the diversity training. They perhaps think that they already know the message. Often the organization’s leaders and big-name stars are the ones who need the message the most, as it has been proven by the Imus episode. Employees have a role to play and a power to exert in ensuring that their workplace is one of respect and dignity for all. In the Imus episode, MSNBC president said that their own employees raised their voices against what Imus said and the company found itself in a position that required it to live up to its own values and ideals so it decided to fire Imus, which it has every right to do. The organization’s other stake-holders, like vendors, advertisers, customers, and the public at large, also have an important role to play to ensure that the organization they deal with is a good corporate citizen that plays fair and respects people and the values of diversity. Diversity training is still needed in the US and in other countries. Because of diversity and sexual harassment prevention training, the American workplace today is much more respectful and hospitable to employees than a decade or two ago. But we need to continue the great effort to ensure that the remaining few who still cling to an old notion of a destructive and negative work culture learn their lessons, before they are forced to leave the workplace all together.

Your  Staff  Can Learn To Value Diversity Online We offer a dynamic, interactive online course “Valuing Diversity” to provide you and your staff an opportunity to learn to value diversity. The course costs only $29.95 per user for 90 day access. And if you have 50 or more employees the cost can be even less. For Online courses on this and other topics Click here   For info on a group of users email us at: info@communicationideas.com Or Call Us at: 1-973-427-3004   Get the Thank God It's Monday Newsletter Email: Send Page To a Friend