The following is a list of programs and training available that New to the Sault provides to the community. For more information on any of these programs, please contact us today!
Diversity in the Workplace
The workshop will initially help participants explore their own value systems and cultural experiences. This perspective will serve as the starting point for delving into issues in cultural diversity in the workplace, cross cultural communication, participants’ cultural values and beliefs, and the impact that they have on the newcomers who they connect with.
Main Topics of Diversity in the Workplace
Main Topics:
- - What is Cultural Diversity?
- - Dimensions of Culture
- - Definition of Diversity and Inclusion
- - Immigration statistics (in Canada and Sault Ste. Marie)
- - Why is cultural sensitivity/cross cultural communication important?
- - Newcomers: Barriers and Challenges (Stereotypes, prejudices, and cultural differences)
- - Acculturation model of Adjustment
- - Assessment of Individual Cultural Competency
- - Diversity Awareness Continuum
- - Assessment of Organizational Cultural Competency
- - Becoming a Welcoming Community, organization, and individual
- - What does a welcoming community look, smell, feel, taste like
- - Resources and Activities in a Welcoming Community
Learning Outcomes of Diversity in the Workplace
At the conclusion of the workshop participants will be able to:
1. Define Culture, inclusion, welcoming environment, and cultural competency.
2. Identify, Understand and Manage the barriers and factors (culture, language, family, housing, employment, education, etc.) that influence the attraction, welcoming, and retention of immigrant newcomers
3. Understand the changing demographics in their community
4. Analyze, Assess, and Identify individual, organizational, and community cultural competency
5. Understanding of knowledge and resources in community that will be useful in building level of cultural competency
The workshop is designed to provide people with an opportunity to explore the cultural makeup of one’s own self, their organization, and also their community at large. It encourages people to examine their own values and beliefs and to open their eyes to different ways of thinking and being.
This is purely an introduction to a series of issues that can be expanded and explored in greater depth. It is to have people start to open their patterns of thinking in regards to themselves, their workplace, and their community.
It does not provide you with ‘must dos’ or ‘absolutes’. What it does it make you think and see things in a new light. It provides insight and understanding of why people they way they are. It starts to get organizations to assess all dimensions of space to see if it is as accessible, inclusive, and inviting for everyone.
Building from this we have the resources and workshops to help an organization with the strategic planning needed to begin to put absolutes in place with regards to cultural awareness and competency.
English Conversation Circles (Every Wednesday and Friday)
Conversation circles are held at the Sault Community Career Centre every Wednesday and Friday at 1:00PM-2:30PM. To know more information about the English conversation circles, contact us today!
Attracting and Retaining Skilled Immigrants – Hiring Practices for small, medium, and Large business
