Diversity Training

This section contains diversity-training resources and best practices from leaders in the DiversityInc Top 50 companies, the military, academia and more. Subscribers to DiversityIncBestPractices.com have free access to DiversityInc’s online diversity-training courses, available now on four topics: employee-resource groups, mentoring, diversity councils and generational communications.

• Diversity Management 101
  

  Four comprehensive diversity courses offer an in-depth roadmap to build successful diversity initiatives.Read More

• ‘Blacks Should Not Be Satisfied With Food Stamps’: The Danger of Stereotypes
  

  Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are the latest politicians to perpetuate negative stereotypes about Blacks. Dr. Claude Steele, educator and expert on stereotypes, gives advice on the dangers of these kinds of misstatements, their impact on the workplace and how to handle them. Read More

• How Does DiversityInc Determine the Top 50?
  

  Can you game the DiversityInc Top 50? CEO Luke Visconti provides inside info on what you can—and can't—do.Read More

• How to Eliminate Your Company’s Promotion Gaps
  

  Chief diversity officers at our diversity conference gave specific advice on expanding the talent pool for openings and assessing talent and experience. What can you learn from them? Read More

• Why White Men Must Attend Diversity Training
  

  Diversity training's purpose is to help people develop relationships to people who are not like them. So why should chief executives demand support for diversity training especially from those who may think it doesn't apply to them? The White Guy explains.Read More

• What Lessons on Corporate Culture Can You Learn From the Navy Video Scandal?
  

  The Navy relieved Captain Owen Honors of his command of the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier after he produced and aired raunchy and homophobic videos aboard the vessel. What workplace lessons can be learned from this?Read More

• Real Diversity-Management Progress: ADP & AXA Equitable (VIDEO)
  

  Want to know why some companies are moving their diversity efforts and how you can learn from them? Senior diversity-management professionals at some of the nation's most improving companies share their journeys at a recent DiversityInc roundtable. Read More

• Delivering Culturally Competent Healthcare (VIDEO)
  

  WellPoint's Chief Diversity Officer Linda Jimenez tells how healthcare can resonate with all patients, from the language used in marketing materials to the photos displayed on hospital walls.Read More

• ‘I Have Black Friends’ Doesn’t Mean You Aren’t Racist
  

  Question: Why is it whenever white people defend their racism, the first thing they default to is "I'm not a bigot" and the second thing is "I have friends who are black"? I could scream.Read More