50 Activities for Diversity Training

The 50 activities in this resource book have been tested with hundreds of participants to ensure their appropriateness and effectiveness for a variety of diversity training needs. Employees at all levels will be stimulated by interactively learning about cultural and gender differences, and mastering new skills for communicating more effectively in our diverse workplaces. Each activity is ready to use and includes trainer's notes and all necessary handouts and overhead transparency masters. They each take between 15 and 45 minutes to complete.

Activities Cover:

• Diversity icebreakers
• Change
• communication
• conflict resolution
• Gender at work
• Culture and career transitions

Training Objectives:

• Illustrate how cultural differences may impact behavior
• Increase awareness of the impact of culture in the workplace
• Demonstrate skills for managing a culturally diverse work force
• Address issues of gender in the workplace

Training Methods:

• Icebreakers
• Participative exercises
• Role-plays
• Mini case studies

About the Authors

Jonamay Lambert, M.A., is President of Lambert & Associates, a Chicago-based consulting firm specializes in research, training and development for minority targeted populations.

She designs customized training programs for a wide variety of public and private institutions. She also provides English language programs. Her diverse clients include Peat, Marwick, Main & Company; Illinois Bell; Illinois State Board of Education; Illinois State University; Department of Commerce and Community Affairs; Cook Country Adult Probation; Selstrom Manufacturing, and Orval Kent Foods, Inc.

Selma Myers, M.A., co-author, is President of Intercultural Development Inc., a California-based company that specializes in intercultural training for industry, government and education.

She consults with industrial clients such as Hewlett-Packard, Northern Telecom, TRW, Fujitsu Systems and Levi Strauss; private universities, such as the California, Michigan and Wisconsin; financial institutions, utilities, health care organizations, government departments, trade associations, etc. She also brought intercultural training to the L.A. Olympics '84 Host Training Program.

Ms. Myers helped found, and was Director of, the American Lanugage institute at San Diego State University, and taught American Culture to professors at the Beijing Institute of Technology, Peoples' Republic of China, was a senior lecturer and a summer teaching fellow at Harvard University.