Length: Half day session
Audience: Employees / HR Managers/HR Assistants / Managers
Valuing Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace is designed to provide staff at all levels of the government with an opportunity to participate in D&I training, become familiar with diversity concepts, as well as practical tips on acknowledging diversity in the workplace and supporting inclusive work environment. Departments are encouraged to use workforce planning as a strategic approach to identify and address the workforce in regards to representation, developing diversity, and inclusion strategies in order to foster a diverse, inclusive and welcoming workplace.
Objectives:
- Learn diversity definitions, dimensions and importance of diversity management
- Acknowledge people's differences and recognize these differences as valuable
- Understand what cultural diversity is and its importance in the workplace
- Learn the different issues related to diversity and some ways on how to approach them
- Learn how culture affects communication
- Recognize how assumptions related to diversity can influence outcomes in and program implementation
- Have an appreciation for the cultural diversity on Prince Edward Island
- Understand your own responsibility in promoting diversity in the workplace
- Learn the necessary skill and practical tips required in the diversity management process
- Make personal commitment to diversity
- Review employee/employer rights & responsibilities under the PEI Human Rights Act
Facilitators: Thilak Tennekone, Sarah Muthee, & Amanda Blakeney
Upcoming Session: More TBA for Fall 2024
Location: Sage Room, 40C Burns Avenue