This is an opportunity to review and enhance your proficiency in listening, speaking, reading and writing. You will find that being aware of cultural and workplace influences will help keep them from creating barriers to communication. Practical information on selecting the right words, and combining them effectively to get your message across, will improve your verbal and written communication. Specific advice on email, videoconferencing, proposals, and selling your ideas will further improve your communication skills.

Here you are going to learn just what an employee recognition program is all about. You’re going to consider who falls under the definition of an employee and then decide why you should provide recognition for them. You will also look at the types of recognition programs, how to lay the foundation for one, and then how to actually build, implement, and follow up on a program in your office.

At the end of this workshop, you will: understand the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion for workspaces; be able to describe and analyze key issues of diversity, equity and inclusion in one’s work environments and community; grasp the power of diversity as a tool for creativity, and productive collaboration in the workspace; have the opportunity to share elements of one’s culture with others; and learn that norms and practices one thinks are universal may be culturally dependent.