You are designing a diversity awareness training session. You have created four

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You are designing a diversity awareness training session. You have created four learning objectives. Upon completion of the training session, managers should be able to: Define diversity and terms related to diversity State the company's policy regarding diversity Describe three benefits of having a diverse work force Identify three behaviors that foster a more inclusive workplace Review this week’s lecture and readings. If you had to choose two traditional methods to use in the diversity awareness training session, which two would you pick and why? Be sure to tell us which objective(s) each training method addresses.

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The two types of traditional training methods I would use for diversity awareness training session are:

1. Lecture - The objective would be to make employees aware of the meaning of diversity in the workforce, associated terms, company's policy and benefits of a diverse workforce. Each company has a different policy so the trainer needs to educate employees regarding the exact stand of the company on diversity. The idea would be to first enhance the knowledge of workforce about the overall importance of diversity and throw light on appropriate behaviors for an inclusive workplace. A short video can be played which describes these behaviors.

I am using this method as it is inexpensive and we can use audio-visual methods to explain appropriately about the topic.

2. Case Study - This method would be used to reinforce the learnings from lecture training and cover all objectives to be achieved. The idea would be to present real-life situations/problems in a diverse workforce and how people have dealt with them. Trainees would be asked to analyze result in the case and then relate it to company's policy, appropriate behavior and benefits of diversity. A small case study on a successful company built using diverse workforce can also be presented to showcase benefits of a diverse workforce.

Please read thru the example below to understand more about using case studies for training:

I used a case study method as trainees would relate more to real-life situations, they would remember the learnings and it would help them in making appropriate choice when they face a similar situation in their workspace.

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