Cultural Diversity and Awareness Skill Builder

Cultural diversity can be defined as the ways in which people differ to each other. This doesn’t relate to minor aspects such as physical height or eye colour, but to associations such as race, ethnicity, language, sex, nationality, or religion.

A healthy team or organisation will encourage diversity and understand that people with different backgrounds, viewpoints, or ideas help build strength into the enterprise. They will also ensure that any processes or structures make the most of diversity, rather than inhibiting or discriminating against certain groups.

This Skill Builder aims to raise your awareness of the differences in how people think, see and act, as well as the areas your team or organisation may need to address in order to foster, and benefit from, cultural diversity.

The Cultural Diversity & Awareness Skill Builder covers:

1. Build - profiling the individual and their cultural experience
2. Evaluate - determining relative differences yet seeing others as equal
3. Create - building rapport, empathy & understanding
4. Empathise - learning to understand and tolerate others
5. Adapt - fostering adaptation and change
6. Persist - commiting to a concerted effort

What are Skill Builders?

These short, sharp and succinct resources provide best practice thinking on a range of key topics and are currently available in 35 titles. Skill Builders are 12 page black and white booklets printed on 140gsm paper and hole-punched for easy insertion into a 3-ring binder. They are designed to provide a practical method for improving skills and focus on explaining the main steps in the process. On the back page of each booklet, a template illustrates how the process fits together for practical and immediate application.

What can Skill Builders be used for?

• Staff meetings or other group gatherings where time is limited and you want to discuss a specific skill or topic
• Pre-course work (to provide a brief and practical introduction to a topic)
• One-on-one or group coaching
• Self development
• Any other situation where a practical best practice process is required and time is limited