DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT

	This is achieved   a) Through the transfer of know-how, to enable managers and staff alike to develop an understanding of Diversity Management   b) Where Diversity Management competence of managers and staff is trained and furthered

Diversity Management Competence Is:

• In-depth understanding of Diversity und Diversity Management
• the ability to recognize and create company relevant Diversity in group composition
• the ability to overcome tensions and to constructively integrate differences =>
  mediative decision-making
• the ability to select an appropriate course of action to control diversity in terms of
  corporate goals
  

CULTURE CONTACT OFFERS YOU

CULTURE CONTACT accompanies you in your introduction of Diversity Management in
your company.

Diversity Management

STRATEGIC CONSULTING

The consulting is aimed at strategic management and diversity managers,
who would bring in the diversity management approach in their departments. The
consulting answers core questions regarding opportunities and risks as well as regarding
the introduction and implementation of diversity management in your company.

SEMINARS on conveying Diversity and Diversity Management

• Diversity - Seminars for managers who want to capitalize on multifaceted
  experience and perspectives (based on culture, skills, sex, age and experience,
  etc.) of clients and staff alike to achieve corporate goals).
• Diversity - Seminars for staff, who learn through integrated handling
  to create a climate of openness and curiosity and thus a constructive means of
  dealing with of diversity.

TRAINING on the teaching and promotion of diversity management competence

• Training for specialists and managers on the teaching of diversity management
  competence, such as corporate handling of diversity and meditative decision-
  making.
• Diversity - Workshops for heterogeneous teams, who recognize and utilize
  synergy potential and who also want to reduce loss due to friction.
  

METHODS and INSTRUMENTS for the teaching of
DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SKILLS

CULTURE CONTACT has developed methods and instruments to teach the practical
and entrepreneurial use of Diversity Management.

• The talk “Diversity – Out of the blue?” conveys information about Diversity
  Management, and thus an understanding of it. The creation and application of the
  approach are highlighted, its opportunities and risks and also its corporate relevance.
• “Diversity Compass” conveys the ability to recognize and create corporate
  relevant diversity in group composition
• “Diversity Compass Enterprise”* trains entrepreneurial competence in the
  handling of diversity and identifies the possibilities of heterogeneous team
  structures
• Exercises on “Mediative Decision-Making” trains the ability to overcome tension
  and to constructively integrate differences

DIVERSITY DEMO WORKSHOP
In our Diversity Demo-Workshop you will gain an insight into the approach and its
instruments and methods.

SOME BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON THE COPORATE RELEVANCE

The corporate relevance of Diversity Management

Diversity Management as the answer to changed requirements on companies

There are many influences which make the corporate world ever more dynamic and complex.
Internationalization leads to markets and workforce becoming more pluralistic. The increase
in the number of mergers and joint-ventures means that companies are required to show a
greater extent of flexibility and ability to integrate.
Only by speeding up these processes and increasing innovation is it possible to keep up with
the pressure of competition. At the same time, social changes in values, the growing number
of women at work and demographic developments pose additional challenges to human
resources management.

Management, executives and staff have to use appropriate measures to cope with these
developments. This means finding and committing the right specialists and managers.
Not only must the ability to innovate be improved, but also the ability to integrate where
there are mergers and joint-ventures. Structures need to be made more flexible and
processes need to be speeded up. Corporations have to integrate more with their social
environment in order to be able to react quicker to the market and to be able to commit
customers better.

Diversity Management focuses on supporting managers and staff in coping with
diversity and the increase in complexity it brings.

Opportunities for companies brought by Diversity Management

• Innovation comes from the working together of a variety of perspectives,
  experience and background knowledge.
  Heterogeneous teams are proven to be more creative and have a higher
  innovation potential.
  In this way heterogeneous teams create more innovative products and services.
• Heterogeneous Teams have a greater ability to solve problems.
• Customer structures and markets are heterogeneous and diverse. Companies
  which can reproduce this structure are able to make decisions which reflect the
  market, thus increasing customer satisfaction and commitment.
• Diversity Management increases the awareness of the staff to the corporate goals.
• Diversity Management improves the social and entrepreneurial skills of the staff
  and creates a more positive, constructive and communicating working environment.