Human Relations and

Diversity Training

Agenda•What does diversity look like?

•Cornerstones of Diversity

•Characteristics

•Summary/Questions

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What does Diversity look like?

Differences Diversity

Recognizing, accepting and appreciating human differences

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Definition of Diversity

“To capitalize on the unique mission- essential talents, strengths, and

perspectives to gain a competitive advantage.”

PRIMARY—the characteristics that you cannot change

SECONDARY—these characteristics can be influenced and can changed during a person’s life (possibly several times).

Patreese D. Ingram, Ed.D Penn State University

What difference can one person, or one deed, make?

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Fast forward to July 2, 1863

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3rd 4th

5th

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X 60

“Bayonets!”

“A gentleman is magnanimous in victory”

Communication video

The power of wordshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzgzim5m7oU

Baseball Heroes

http://www.livinglifefully.com/flo/floshayashomerun.htm

Cornerstones of Diversity

KNOWLEDGE

BEHAVIORUNDERSTANDING

ACCEPTANCE

Doing what is right--Capitalizing on talents--Coordinating diversity

“The day people stop bringing you their problems, is the day you stop leading them.”

You cannot teach what you don’t know. You cannot lead where you won’t go.

How we define ourselves is the measuring stick to how we see others.

The Cold Within By James Patrick Kinney

Six humans trapped by happenstanceIn dark and bitter coldEach one possessed a stick of wood,Or so the story's told.

Their dying fire in need of logs,The first man held his back.For on the faces around the fire,he noticed one was black.

The poor man sat in tattered clothes,he gave his coat a hitch.Why should his log be put to use,to warm the idle rich?

The rich man just sat back and thoughtof the wealth he had in store.And how to keep what he had earnedfrom the lazy, shiftless poor.

The black man's face bespoke revengeas the fire passed from sight.For all he saw in his stick of woodwas a chance to spite the white.

The next man sitting cross the way,saw one not of his church.And couldn't bring himself to givethe fire his stick of birch.

The last man of this forlorn groupdid naught except for gain.Giving only to those who gavewas how he played the game.

The logs held tight in death's still handswas proof of human sin.They didn't die from the cold without,they died from ---THE COLD WITHIN.

It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.

~ John Wooden

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

~Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.