- Diversity
Adapting our environment for accomodation
Monday, June 2nd, 2008In the May newsletter of the Oregon Business Leadership Network(OBLN), Neil Ramano who is the Assistant Secretary of The Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) within the Department of Labor shared this insight:
I like to tell people who I meet about the people with the worst disabilities in the history of America… people who couldn’t [...]
The Turkey and Stuffing–getting dirty with Real Work
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007The Diversity Inclusion team met last night at my place; we met for 3 hours and walked away once again with a deeper understanding of each other as well as specific strategic steps to take to help ASTD Cascadia become a more inclusive organization. This team is committed, spirited and dedicated. Piggy backing [...]
Strategic Inclusion Plan–Drinking and Diving in
Thursday, September 20th, 2007A group of people gathered last night at Pyramid Breweries’, MacTarnahan’s Taproom last night for great beer, food and fantastic conversation. We were together to discuss the next steps in ASTD-Cascadia’s Strategic Inclusion plan. At first glance, I stumbled over the words “strategic inclusion plan”. I was not entirely sure what [...]
Increasing diversity by becoming more inclusive
Monday, September 17th, 2007For the past two years, ASTD-Cascadia board has focused on creating a more inclusive professional association. Much of this work has been behind the scenes, building the foundation for a long term initiative. In the next phase, we will be involving more people and bringing the work forward to the center of how we operate.
Where [...]
Emotional Intelligence and Diversity
Sunday, July 22nd, 2007Jorge Cherbosque and Lee Gardenschwartz Program
ASTD-Cascadia welcomed Jorge Cherbosque PhD and Lee Gardenschwartz PhD to Reed College for an afternoon program on Emotional intelligence and diversity: Strategies and skills for training professionals. Jorge and Lee are partners with Anita Rowe in the Emotional Intelligence and Diversity Institute.
Bringing his wisdom as a psychologist, Jorge told [...]
SIIC Evening Programs
Sunday, July 8th, 2007The Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication (SIIC) offers a series of free evening programs at Reed College in Portland, Oregon July 11-27, 2007 . I will be presenting one of the programs with Peggy Pusch on Monday July 23 at 7:00 PM in Elliot 314.
Developing Culturally Competent Professional Associations
What makes culturally effective professional associations? How [...]
Recognizing strengths
Thursday, July 5th, 2007I just got a fund raising mailer from the Search Dog Foundation. They train dogs to work with firefighters and first responders to save lives. Their dogs worked after 911, Katrina, the mud slides in California and other serious tragedies where people are saved from dire circumstances.
They have identified a series of behaviors that [...]
Meeting and Event Planning
Sunday, July 1st, 2007What helps people feel included when they come to an event?
As the ASTD-Cascadia board has explored how to make the chapter more welcoming to people of diverse backgrounds, we often get to the place of asking, but HOW? Of course, it’s tough for the board members to see or understand why/how we would not be [...]
Donna Stringer Program
Monday, June 25th, 2007Improving Individual and Organizational Cultural Competency
On June 11, 2007 Donna Stringer Ph.D presented a program at the Ambridge Event Center. Dr. Stringer is the president of Executive Diversity Services, Inc. based in Seattle, Washington. The program was packed with exercises, information, discussions, and tools. It was a pleasure to attend a program with high quality [...]
Why Diversity and Cultural Competency, AGAIN?
Thursday, June 21st, 2007Haven’t we already done that?
Many training professionals have sat through diversity training. So we know we’re not supposed to discriminate, make comments that hurt other people, tell jokes that target particular groups and be sensitive to how other people are different.
You may have even been in a training where you came out feeling kind of [...]