Diversity Issues

Dr. Moni Storz, Principal Consultant and Executive Trainer, Global Business Strategies

October 30, 2009
8:30 am - 4:00 pm
Registration includes continental breakfast and lunch

Event Description

“Asian” is often used as a catch-all term to describe people and cultures that are vastly different from one another. This workshop will reveal some of these differences and explore a model that enhances your intercultural awareness and communication skills. You’ll build an awareness that will inform and improve your counseling, teaching and training, leadership development, team building, and marketing efforts with diverse cultures.

Audience

This workshop will benefit people in the nonprofit sector that work with Asian people and cultures—both as colleagues and clients. Learn to more effectively build relationship, teams, and deliver services.

Discover:

• The wide range of Asian ways of life
• Major belief systems in Asia including Hinduism, Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, and Islam
• The psycho-spiritual model for understanding and distinguishing cultural  differences
• The KIT (knowledge, intercultural awareness, and tools) approach to cross-cultural interactions

The Presenter

Dr. Moni Storz is the principal consultant and executive trainer for Global Business Strategies, a company that bridges cultures for international business interactions. Prior to this, Moni was a lecturer at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Her non-fiction work includes Mind Body Power: The Self Help Book on Accelerated Learning and Dancing with Dragons: Chopsticks People Revealed for Global Business. Moni is the founder of the Australasian Centre of Chinese Studies and the artistic director of the Australasian Chinese Theatre Company. She is a novelist, poet, and playwright. Moni’s clients include IBM, Australian Migration Education Services, Victorian Education Foundation, Cisco Systems, ANZ Bank, Melbourne University, TACS, Anglican Church, and the International Federation of Women.

Cost: $150.00
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Location

TACS
1001 SE Water Ave, Ste 490
Portland, Oregon 97214
Recommended Parking: U-Park at the corner of SE Salmon and SE Water

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Cliff Jones, Senior Associate, TACS

September 10, 2009
8:30 am - 4:00 pm
Registration includes continental breakfast and lunch

Event Description

While many of us recognize the value of building diverse teams in the work place, we risk providing management and supervision in a culturally homogenous way. Failing to recognize unique cultural elements in our teams can result in missed opportunities for innovation, creativity, and dynamic problem solving.  

Supervising and Leading Teams towards Greater Cross Cultural Effectiveness is a primer for supervisors and managers to improve how teams work together across differences to provide products and services that meet the needs of diverse populations. Effectively valuing and utilizing diversity internally is an important foundation for developing team capacity that can make a critical difference in serving diverse populations and competing in today's nonprofit market place.  

This full-day interactive workshop will address:

• Frameworks and skills for leadership, supervision and cross cultural effectiveness
• Roles for management teams, supervisors, team leaders and staff members in building greater cross cultural effectiveness
• Team assessments to identify areas for cross cultural capacity development
• Activities for building team cross cultural effectiveness

The Presenter

Cliff is a human rights activist with over 25 years of experience in social service, community education, and human rights advocacy. He is co-founder of Tools for Diversity, a multi-cultural team that addresses problems caused by discrimination and prejudice and supports building culturally competent organizations.

Cliff's professional capabilities include skill-building for boards and supervisors, planning, mediation, workplace diversity, multicultural alliances, conflict resolution, and group facilitation. He has consulted for all kinds of nonprofits—grassroots groups, social service agencies, housing authorities, and government bureaus. He has experience as a frontline staff, supervisor, project manager and executive director.

Cost: $150.00
NAO Members: $135.00 Join the Nonprofit Association of Oregon (NAO). View the NAO member list.

Location

Ecotrust Conference Center
721 NW 9th Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97209
Recommended Parking: Station Place SmartPark at 720 NW Marshall

Regular Fee: $85.00
NAO Member Fee: $76.50

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Event Description:

Cross Cultural Effectiveness is a baseline skill for nonprofit staff and is central to high quality service delivery. Explore the individual and organizational skills needed to implement best practices in diversity, cross cultural effectiveness and cultural competency, including:

• Basics of cultural awareness and working across cultural differences
• Strategies for valuing diversity in your organization and your working relationships
• How culture impacts service delivery approaches

There are many effective approaches for providing services across cultural differences, and leading your organization towards cultural competency. Participants will complete a diversity self assessment and review six approaches to cross cultural effectiveness. Each person will pick one or a combination that is most relevant to their organization, constituency, personal style and/or work environment. Participants will also work individually and in groups to explore questions, review model strategies they have selected to increase their effectiveness, and identify an individual action plan for advancing cross cultural effectiveness in their workplace.

About the Presenters

Cliff Jones is a Senior Associate with TACS and a co-founder of TACS’ Tools for Diversity project. He is a human rights activist with over 28 years of work experience with well over 900 nonprofit organizations providing a variety of training and consulting services. His background is in community education, community development, diversity education and counseling. He provides a variety of training and consulting services in nonprofit organizational development, strategic planning, diversity in the workplace, community organizing, conflict resolution, supervision, time management, team building, and group facilitation.

Guadalupe Guajardo, PhD., is a Senior Associate with TACS specializing in organization development, board trainings, leadership development, and cultural competency. She is a co-founder of Tools for Diversity, a multi-cultural training team that presents solutions to problems caused by privilege, prejudice, discrimination, and oppression.

In addition to her work at TACS, Guadalupe worked for 12 years with the Center for Third World Organizing based in Oakland, California, developing and supervising leadership programs for young people of various racial groups. She holds a doctorate in Transformative Learning and Change from California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, an MA/ABS in Organization Development from the Leadership Institute of Seattle and an MA in Theology from Mt. Angel Seminary. Guadalupe is a member of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, currently headquartered in Marylhurst, OR.

Location

TACS
East Bank Commerce Center
1001 SE Water Ave. Ste 490
Portland, Oregon
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