Leveraging the true power of Diversity inside your teams has never been more important. Engage your employees and gain your competitive edge.

Workplace Diversity: The Team Advantage™ is designed to improve the ability of your workforce to engage and interact more effectively with co-workers who are different than themselves, and to learn the characteristics and value of High Performing Teams.

• 74% of employees indicate that they “like their work, and are willing to do more than is expected”.
• Only 2/3 of respondents indicate they are “committed to staying” with their company through the remainder of the year.
• As few as 21% of these individuals indicate that they may be fully engaged.
• Increased global competition has caused many organizations to reduce headcounts to cut costs.

Four courses in The Team Advantage™ series leverage multimedia technology to create an individualized and highly interactive learning environment. The program engages the employee with a virtual workgroup of individuals who are diverse in many ways and have just been assigned to a new team to develop a high performance initiative for their company. Each course is a 30-45 minute interactive learning experience of realistic workplace dynamics.

MODULE 1: HIGH PERFORMING TEAMS

• Participants meet and engage with the “virtual team”
• Explore the definitions, characteristics and skills used by High Performing Teams and Organizations
• Learn why this training is important to the bottom-line impact of every organization

MODULE 2: STRENGTHENING DIVERSE TEAMS

• Explore basic concepts about diversity
• Learn about leveraging experience and strengths to increase performance
• Discover “filters” that can hinder a High Performing Team and discuss potential barriers to success

MODULE 3: INTERPERSONAL SKILLS & CONSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACK

• Learn tools to help the process of handling conflict and addressing tough issues, including Intent versus Impact, addressing inappropriate remarks, and establishing norms of support for each other

MODULE 4: TEAM SKILLS & ACCOUNTABILITY

• Develop skills for listening and hearing ideas and solutions, problem solving and making decisions
• Each participant develops an interactive, personalized Action Plan