WCTE Diversity Training

Mr. Morris Irby, a trustee of the Upper Cumberland Broadcast Council, will conduct a three-hour diversity training session on November 13, 2012. A recently-retired Senior HR Manager/Master Investigator for Cummins Filtration, Mr. Irby has extensive experience in diversity training. The session will include the following elements:

• Welcome
• Kick-off exercise
• Training Objectives
• Ground Rules

• Employees introduce themselves and describe what WCTE pays them to do
• Employees identify their learning goals and their specific plans to achieve them

• Employees participate in a differentiation exercise to provoke thought toward diversity awareness

• Employees discuss the workplace of the past
• Employees discuss the workplace of the future and the skills necessary for success

• Employees learn the definition of diversity
• Employees participate in an exercise to illuminate both visible and invisible factors affecting diversity
• STAE Model is discussed

• Employees discuss how to achieve 100 % effort in their work for 100 % of their pay
• Employees learn about the pluses and minuses of diversity

• Employees learn about cues, filters, behaviors, and stereotypes/assumptions in relation to diversity awareness.

• Mr. Irby will close the session and answer questions