Diversity and Cultural Awareness Profile

Use the Diversity and Cultural Awareness Profile to gauge your organization’s commitment to cultural diversity and identify things like:

The Diversity and Cultural Awareness Profile will help individuals understand how much awareness and commitment exists towards the diversity of individuals with different backgrounds in their organization.

What It’s Best Used For

• Evaluating Workplace Inclusivity: Benchmarking internal company perceptions to discover exactly how employees feel about the organization’s current climate and commitment to diverse backgrounds.
• Guiding Executive and Managerial Coaching: Helping leadership teams spot and actively correct dysfunctional workplace behaviors, implicit biases, or negative attitudes regarding cultural diversity.
• Setting New Corporate Standards: Serving as a foundational baseline learning exercise when an organization plans to introduce modern diversity policies, metrics, or compliance standards.
• Facilitating Corporate Training Workshops: Acting as the core centerpiece for a half-day or full-day guided workshop, utilizing the available Facilitator’s Guide to navigate difficult conversations and build custom development action plans.
• Improving Individual Self-Awareness: Offering everyday employees an objective, structured look at their personal cross-cultural strengths and developmental blind spots.

Overview

This assessment compares perceptions of the organization’s commitment to cultural diversity against the respondents own commitment to cultural diversity. Useful from an organization and an individual perspective. Competencies include:

• Awareness and Climate
• Levels of Inclusion
• Degree of Empathy
• Degree of Adaptation and Change
• Persistence and Commitment

When to Use the Diversity and Cultural Awareness Profile

• With all employees who need to improve their own awareness of cultural diversity issues through a structured assessment of their strengths and weaknesses.
• As an OD tool to uncover perceptions about the organization in regards to commitment toward cultural diversity.
• As an entry learning exercise when the organization intends to set new standards or policies related to diversity.
• As an introductory training activity on diversity and cultural awareness to expose participants to their own, and the organizations, commitment to diversity issues.
• With managers and executives who need to be able to recognize and correct dysfunctional attitudes and behaviors that may exist in the organization as regards cultural diversity.
• As the center piece of a 1-day facilitated training workshop on diversity and cultural awareness.

Features

• Measures 6 core diversity and cultural awareness competencies through 48 items, and collects ratings for the self as well as the “self’ perception of how the organization is performing.
• Worded in simple, understandable and behavioral terms allowing any participant, regardless of education or English language proficiency, to understand and provide accurate ratings.
• Individuals or the organization can use questionnaire results to identify problem areas at the competency or specific behavioral item level.

Facilitator’s Guide Kit

This Facilitators Guide enables a trainer to lead a half-day workshop administering, scoring, and interpreting the Diversity and Cultural Awareness Profile. Includes templates for development planning and 48 sets of expanded explanation and implications, built around each diversity item. This information will enable an individual or the organization to ask and answer the difficult questions related to effectively promoting diversity in the organization.

The Diversity and Cultural Awareness Profile will help individuals understand how much awareness and commitment exists towards the diversity of individuals with different backgrounds in their organization.

Also available in online format.