“We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.”
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Tips for Managing Diversity in the workplace:
-Educate all employees about diversity and its issues including laws and regulations.
- Be open to change
-Take the time to become knowledgable about the skills, background, and knowledge of your staff
-Hold team sessions where employees can take the time to share ideas, values, heritage,and culture
- Always apply the platinum rule: Treat others as they wish to be treated.
-Try to overcome language barriers by having appropriate interperters and translating all written documents into languages that all employees can understand
- Attend and recommend formal diversity training to all employees.
- Focus on self awareness and be aware of your own personal biases and prejudices.
Tim Berners says......
We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges
A quote from Jimmy Carter
We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
