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Diversity competence for managers

Understanding, promoting and professionally integrating diversity

This training is held in German.
Diversity in business is more important than ever before and is gaining in social and economic significance. As a manager, you need to understand the importance of diversity, promote it and integrate it professionally. In this training , you will learn how to create a framework that enables diversity in the team and innovative cooperation. You will manage the interplay of different skills, experiences and personalities and promote fruitful cross-generational working. In addition, you will raise your awareness of discriminatory actions and structures (e.g. everyday discrimination, bullying and sexual harassment) and receive effective strategies for dealing with them professionally. Expand your skills as a manager for optimal results. Life is colorful and challenging - and so is our cooperation!

Contents

Diversity@Work: Diversity in business

  • Target transparency: Why do we need diversity?
  • Diversity factors: social or ethnic origin as an initial reality.
  • Diversity dimensions: Gender, skin color, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, age, disability.
  • Conscious and unconscious levels of judgment.

Generations - what makes them tick!

  • Values and needs often clash in the work context.
  • Socialization influence on the four key generations in everyday working life.
  • Baby boomers vs. generation Z.
  • Generation X and Generation Y in business.
  • Leadership skills for the generation mix.

Gender know-how in management

  • Bringing women into leadership - how can this be done better?
  • Understanding power and cooperation structures.
  • The opposite sex - communicative differences.
  • Development and empowerment of:gender supporter:in.

Sounding Future - Sounding Board

  • The intersectional approach to improving team skills.
  • Fairness for different groups of employees.
  • Equal opportunities vs. prejudice.
  • Leadership as a role model - how much courage do we actually have?

Recognizing and preventing discrimination

  • Discrimination as the dark side of diversity.
  • Types, effects and forms of discrimination.
  • Communicative strategy in cases of discrimination.

Bullying has many faces

  • Definition and characteristics of bullying.
  • Your management task and management responsibility in the event of bullying.
  • De-escalation and escalation strategies.
  • Resolving difficult team dynamics.

Me too - Sexual harassment

  • Clearly defined: What is sexual harassment in the workplace?
  • Strategies for prevention and prevention.
  • employer and managers are responsible - confront, protect.
  • Conduct conversations with "victims" and "perpetrators" skillfully and empathetically.

Expanding diversity competence

  • Dealing with similarities and differences.
  • Know the legal requirements and rules.
  • Promote self-reflection: I am like you - only different!
  • Further develop levels of action competence.
  • Living the Diversity Charter in business - we need colorfulness!

Learning environment

In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this qualification measure after you have registered.

Your benefit

  • You are aware of the various dimensions of diversity in business and know the connections for your management role.
  • You will receive concrete suggestions and develop individual options for your behavior as a manager.
  • You will know how to proactively integrate the topic of diversity into your leadership and how to react correctly to incidents and problems in the respective areas of conflict from your leadership position.
  • They understand what is important when it comes to social and communication skills.
  • As a manager, you are in a position to de-escalate situations, draw consequences and facilitate sustainable prevention.
  • You will expand your strategies for diversity and thus ensure future-oriented leadership.

Methods

trainer, case/best-practice examples, exercises, discussion, exchange of experience, work aids, checklists, role plays, video analysis.

Recommended for

Executives and managers at all levels, equal opportunities officers and mentors who are confronted with the issues of diversity, bullying, sexual harassment in the workplace and discrimination and need sustainable diversity competence.

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