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2013 Diversity Conference Session Planner
Workplace Application: This session will help you improve your cultural competency skills with a framework to increase the level of cultural competency in your organization, and be an effective leader in today's global business reality.
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Thirteen skills for culturally competent communication, and a four-element model for building diverse high-performing teams, help you create an inclusive organizational culture through cultural competency. You will learn how to:

• Develop the skills to become a more inclusive leader.

 

• Increase your ability to help others identify their personal biases and assumptions, which create barriers to inclusion, fairness, and higher performance.

• Be empowered with language, a set of mental models, and cultural competency skills, to engage in a healthy dialogue leveraging diversity of thought and backgrounds, to foster innovation.

 

 
Date(s) & Time(s): 
Tuesday, October 29, 2013 - 10:15am to 11:30am
Presenter: 
Steven Jones
CEO
Jones & Associates Consulting
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Nationally known as one of "America's Top Experts on Diversity" (Diversity, Inc., 2005), Dr. Jones’ philosophy is to lead with listening to support clients in finding a strategy and solution that works for them.

Dr. Jones has been heralded as a dynamic keynote speaker, transformational facilitator, phenomenal organization effectiveness consultant, and innovative executive. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a master’s in Multicultural Counseling, and a Ph.D. in Industrial/ Organizational Psychology. He is the author of Journey to Excellence, a transformational book helping people define and achieve excellence in their lives.

Dr. Jones founded Jones & Associates in 1993 in order to build a firm committed to making a widespread positive impact in the world in the area of diversity, inclusion, and organizational excellence. The company's team of certified Jones & Associates consultants provide diversity, inclusion, organizational change and organizational development services to corporations, educational institutions, government agencies and non-profit organizations.

SESSIONS:
Location: 
Yerba Buena Ballroom 1-3
Amount of Credit: 
1.25
Credit Type: 
•HR Credit
Session Type: 
Concurrent Session
Competency: 
Relationship Management
Leadership & Navigation
Global & Cultural Effectiveness
Intended Audience: 
Mid-Level
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