Facilitator
Description
Our equity, diversity and inclusion strategies and approaches in our teams and organisations have not delivered on the outcomes that diversity has long promised. It appears that diversity management in organisations is more complex than originally understood.
Our cultural influences go beyond visible diversity characteristics of gender, ethnicity, age and accessibility, to include hidden dimensions of diversity such as values, worldviews and lived experiences within ourselves and others. This requires us to take a deeper dive into understanding the dynamic nature of culture, develop our perception management and self-management to navigate this complexity. This approach develops your intercultural agility to cultivate the third space/culture – where diverse perspectives, values and worldviews can be valued and unleashed for productivity, creativity and innovation.
In order for organisations to be sustainable with a hyper-diverse workforce, it requires everyone (especially leaders) to develop their intercultural agility, which is the ability to create win-win solutions by anticipating, correctly interpreting and adjusting to the culturally defined behaviours of others. This capability is critical in all aspects of organisational development from leadership, marketing, HR, coaching, and change management.
Learning Outcomes
Participation in this workshop will enable you to:
- recognise the complexity and multi-dimensional nature of diversity in yourself and others
- recognise the culture of ‘cultures’ that exist within yourself and in your organisation
- discover and identify your deep cultural worldviews and values that influence patterns of behaviours and recognise any dissonance with others through the Three Colours Worldview and Culture Mapping Frameworks
- develop a framework and some strategies to develop your intercultural capability and agility.
Content
- Recognition of the complexity of diversity and culture in today’s context
- Perception management to go beyond stereotypes to deep interactions with others
- Self-management in identifying the different cultural worldviews and values within and in others that go beyond visible dimensions of diversity
- Development of intercultural capability and mindset to grow intercultural agility
- An overview of the implications of these worldviews and values in our teams and organisational systems