Smith Barney agreed to post available branch management positions and provide all management personnel with diversity training.
"All members were offered equality and diversity training when the new Council was formed in 2009, " it said.
In some ways, I believe diversity training does more harm than good.
The report concluded the overall picture regarding diversity training was one of inconsistency, an absence of agreed national standards and proper evaluation.
When I wrote my book, The 2020 Workplace, in 2010, I made a prediction some considered bold: I said that by the year 2020, social media training in the workplace would be as common as ethics and diversity training.
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Additionally, there are books, inexpensive seminars, podcasts and webinars that cover a tremendous diversity of training options for little or no cost.
Leaders and HR directors attempt to address the issue every day, and they commit diversity dollars, initiatives, training programs and networking events to moving the needle, but rarely have the hard data, research and findings from men and women in the organization as to why women are leaving before they reach leadership levels, why they are plateauing or not being promoting effectively into leadership.
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Second, if a company understands the value of engagement, it is going to understand that this takes a number of forms, including individual leadership training activities, work committees, diversity or gender based resource groups, or involvement in the local community.
Presentations will focus on themes directed towards education and training for tackling cultural and ethnic-racial diversity as African-Brazilian and Indigenous Culture and History become mandatory classes in Brazil, establishing that schools, teachers and other education professional as well as pedagogic resources must be overseen and questioned regarding the re-dimensioning and reorientation of studies on the formation of Brazilian society.
Because the link between people and plants is so fundamental to the conservation of both biological and cultural diversity, it concentrates on the core of our capacity building: training in applied ethnobotany, providing people with inter-disciplinary skills highly relevant to conservation action.
But police departments around the country are working very hard to fight these ill-conceived notions and, in recent years their diversity recruitment and selection processes, paired with modules in sensitivity and multicultural training, have had an impact.
In a statement Cornwall Council said it "takes its responsibilities around equality and diversity extremely seriously and is committed to ensuring that all staff and members receive appropriate training" and were "fully aware of the importance of this issue".
Through these training sessions, participants acquired a broad understanding of how the Convention works and recognized diversity within a community regarding their ICH, as well as the importance of the inclusion of youth, elders and women as part of multiple voices on ICH.
UNESCO: Culture Sector - Intangible Heritage - 2003 Convention
This means spending (and yes risking) money on training initiatives that give an employee a useful and potentially marketable new skill other than things like diversity and team bonding courses.
The idea to focus this training on white males, while sounding inherently racist and sexist, is effective because those benefiting from diversity policies are not likely to be have problems with it, at least not for now.
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