Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace - Celebrating Uniqueness

As our society and culture changes and becomes more diverse, so does our workforce. Workplace diversity encompasses many differences including cultural, intellectual, gender-related, religious, personality, racial, generational, physical, mental, and more. Regardless of these dissimilarities, all employees in the business community share a common goal of corporate and individual success and deserve consideration when applying for employment openings, promotions, educational opportunities, benefit participation, and all aspects of employment. In order to avoid being viewed as discriminatory, your company should consider evaluating its current hiring, placement, and promotion requirements and business practices to ensure not only diversity tolerance, but also appreciation. By recognizing, valuing, and promoting employee differences within your organization, you will be increasing staff morale and job satisfaction, thereby promoting success for individuals and your business as a whole. 

With this resource-loaded, fast-paced, and relatable course, you will receive tools, tips, and techniques to use to successfully lead your team. By the end of the training, you will have actionable items and tools to implement the learning objectives and achieve sustained success. 
 

• Understand what workplace diversity, equity, and Inclusion (DEI) means 
• Identify reasons why DEI is important 
• Recognize avenues to reach DEI goals 
• Explore best practices 
• Learn tips and techniques 
• Determine expectations and responsibilities

• DEI Overview 
• Diversity 
• Explore Differences 
• Illegal Discrimination – Protected Classed 
• Personality/Cognitive Uniqueness 
• Advantages of a Diverse Team
• Equity 
• Equal Pay Act (EPA) 
• Inclusion 
• DEI Strategy

Attending this training will help you and your team grow professional skills and discover how to work towards continued success for yourself, your team, and your organization. It will help you to advance your current success, boost your chances to meet your future goals and aspirations, and to inspire others to follow your lead. Further, this course will help your team better understand company-wide expectations of individuals and teams to achieve desired results. When workplaces incorporate these cultural principles, the work environment becomes a place to look forward to coming into with enthusiasm. 

If developing your skills aren’t prioritized by you or your organization, you risk individual, team, department, and organizational failure without everyone reaching their full potential.
 

Everyone that interacts with others and aspires to continue their professional development will benefit from this training. That includes anyone from front line workers to the leadership team. It is also general information that is relevant to all industries including human resources, medical, legal, hospitality, transportation, government, sales, communications, education, insurance, science, engineering, banking, non-profit, fitness, investment, realty, marketing, construction, and more. Human Resource Professionals, Supervisors, Managers, Business Owners, CEOs, COOs, CHROs, Presidents, Vice Presidents, Employees.

Deborah Jenkins is a workforce and leadership trainer, keynote speaker, business management consultant, executive coach, and writer, who helps entrepreneurial organizations of any size or industry to leverage their corporate culture advancement through development of their leadership and human capital assets.

In addition to having a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resource Management and Professional Certifications from renowned organizations including a SHRM-CP from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and a PHR from the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI), she has over 25 years of real world experience in human resource management, business consulting, and training and development in a variety of industries including higher education, manufacturing, construction, accounting, telecommunications, retail, health care, fitness, government, union, and nonprofits. She serves her clients by using her expertise in leadership growth and development, teamwork and collaboration, change management, emotional intelligence and agility philosophies utilizing neuroscience principles, employee engagement, motivation and innovation, problem-solving using critical thinking skills, and most passionately, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Deborah is also an Authorized Everything DiSC® Partner, offering her clients the valuable personality assessments and solutions that address personal tendencies, preferences, and approach agility.  Further, she has been a active member and board member for SHRM local and state chapters as well as Toastmaster’s International local chapter. Deborah is a life-long Montanan and when she isn’t busy with her business, HR Solutions, LLC, she enjoys roaming the mountains with camping, hiking, and 4-wheeler adventures, tooling the lakes on her SeaDoo’s, tending to her yard and garden, entertaining family and friends, and indulging in meditative pi-yoga.