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Seminar Agenda

DAY 1
Awareness of Cultural Diversity
  
  • Explore the many aspects of cultural diversity.
  • Discover how to eliminate racial and cultural barriers.
  • Learn how to prevent the ethnocentric reactions that can pervade your organization, causing exclusion of some, favoritism of others, intragroup conflict, and ineffective customer relations.
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    DAY 2
    Knowledge of Cultural Diversity
      
  • Discuss your opinions and hear how others identify with race, skin color, and other culture-related issues.
  • Examine "hushed and hidden" topics in cultural diversity, such as stages of racial identity development.
  • Explore the psychosocial history of racial groups and relate their communication and interaction styles to a race-conscious society.
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    DAY 3
    Skills in Cultural Competence
      
  • Learn how to develop trust and rapport needed to facilitate honest and open discussions of intense issues.
  • Determine your own level of competence in cross-cultural interactions and improve your cross-cultural communication.
  • Learn to recognize when cultural factors may be influencing personal dynamics and how to implement changes in conflict situations.
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    DAY 4
    Cross-Cultural Encounters
      
  • Apply techniques using your awareness, knowledge, and skills through role-playing that involves cross-cultural conflict.
  • Learn practical approaches to managing cultural encounters.
  • Develop a personal action plan to reduce tension, address cultural strengths and challenges, and recognize unconscious assumptions, motivations and actions.
  • Address: 900 Second Street, NE, Suite 202, Washington, DC 20002
    Phone: 202.783.3714    Fax: 202.783.3716
    Email: bacw@blackadministrators.org
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