Tuesday, June 21, 2005

 

Leading the Culturally Diverse Workplace

Leading Workplace Diversity

In our fast transforming world, company and organisational leadership often lags the reality of their client-base. (And Cultural diversity in the workplace is as critical as religious, gender and language diversity.)

The gap between their clients and is often superficially bridged at the image level by advertising, sales teams and marketing. Advertising agencies manage at times to put on a face of a culturally-aware organisation; sales teams are reasonably representative of their client base and marketing is occasionally targeted on the right market groups. But back at the office many decisions are made in the old traditional ways.

An individually-focused organisation (IFO) will motivate its teams on their individual performances. Everything will be "Key Performance Indicator" (KPI) driven and individual success, at the expense of the less visible, will be encouraged.

A community-focused organisation (CFO) will be focused on community and its all about us together as a community. They will often limit praise for individual successes and highlight group/ community successes.

In both IFOs and CFOs there will be inter-level, inter-team and inter-personal challenges, resulting in workplace conflict. When the issues of uniqueness, culture, religion, race, beliefs, gender, age, ability, generations, qualifications and historical experience are added to the picture then workplace conflict is a given.

These problems will be born of prejudice, jealousy, ignorance and the suppression of individual and workplace community aspirations and ideas.

Much of the challenge will emanate from the lack of representation at the highest level. This can be alleviated through transformation of the senior leadership. In such change comes all of the challenges of diversity in the boardroom.

How do you lead change, in diverse boardrooms and the workplace?

Some of the challenges are:

Some of the solutions are:

The outcome through diversity training, team-building and clearing conflict is a powerful peer-driven workplace management system, led by the diverse team that it seeks to guide.

The results:

Leaders who choose to lead their culturally diverse work-teams, to great success, will involve each and every team member in the day to day processes of workplace diversity management. Ultimately, through the new diversity team unity and participation, they will be able to grow their services into burgeoning and exciting new markets.

It is time to lead and build diverse teams that are focussed and excited to be a part of their organisation.

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Wednesday, May 25, 2005

 

Cultural Diversity in the Workplace

Cultural Diversity in the Workplace

This is the most exciting aspect of business in the modern world. The incredible amount of fresh ideas and new ways of doing business derive particularly from cultural diversity in the workplace.

Yet, within these opportunities lie many challenges.

Challenges of:
  1. Misunderstanding
  2. Mis-communication
  3. Lack of commonly understood respect
  4. Prejudice
  5. Racism
  6. Xenophobia
  7. Superiority and Inferiority clashes
  8. Tribalism
  9. Language confusion
  10. Varying value systems

All caused by the ever-increasing cultural diversity in the workplace.

What can we do?

How do we:

  1. Build Respect?
  2. Get Common Understanding?
  3. Build Professionalism?
  4. Reduce and Control Prejudice?
  5. Improve Communication?
  6. Clear past Interpersonal Conflicts?
  7. Develop Accountability, Ownership and Responsibility?
  8. Build Teamwork & Unity?
  9. Get the Commitment of the entire Team?
  10. Ensure cultural diversity in the workplace works for our clients, our teams and our company or organisation, well into the future?

Opportunities

Yes! Within the these challenges, of cultural diversity in the workplace, lie many opportunities.

Opportunities to powerfully and excitingly build your business and your organisation, with your diverse team!

Let us help you to:

Build unified, respectful and accountable teams that work together in an emotionally safe workplace, free of past inter-personal challenges and focussed on supplying professional services and products to your internal and external customer base.

We will give you the tools to make this a long-term programme of transformation and unifying of your cultural diversity in the workplace.

Yes! Ensure that cultural diversity in the workplace works for our clients, our teams and our company or organisation, well into the future. Read our eBook today!

Remember!

Cultural Diversity in the Workplace, when seen as an opportunity, is your organisation's next big leap into the 21st Century success!


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Workplace Diversity Specialists - Brian and Arthie Moore & son