Ithaca College

Often, managers and educators put together diverse teams or groups, but then work in ways that fail to reap the benefits of that diversity. This highly interactive workshop offers both a framework and practical tips for leveraging the power of diverse teams, optimizing innovation, and strengthening organizational decision-making. It invites participants to become intentional and strategic about this work. Designed for supervisors who lead diverse teams and faculty members who want to leverage diversity to enhance classroom learning or to strengthen students’ readiness to embrace diversity in community settings. Open to all interested in the topics covered.

Topics include:
·        Examining the power of diversity for innovation and learning
·        Cultivating an inclusive group process that invites the sharing of diverse and divergent perspectives, experiences and ideas
·        Mastering the art of “asking” vs. “telling”
·        Fostering innovation-generating, constructive “task or content conflict” while reducing the innovation-destroying traps of “relationship conflict,” false harmony, polarization, and the pull toward conformity
·        Intentionality: From “good intentions” to “intended results”

Facilitator: Margo Hittleman, PhD. Co-founder and Coordinator, Natural Leaders Initiative. Margo is a Senior Fellow with the Dorothy Cotton Institute in Ithaca, NY and a former Cornell Civil Leadership Fellow. She has designed and led numerous educational and professional development workshops and curricula on leadership; staff and organizational development; diversity and inclusion; human rights; social and organizational change; alliance-building, university-community and school-community partnerships, participatory action research; and evaluation. She has also written several professional development books and publications, including Winning Decisions: Getting It Right the First Time (Doubleday, 2002), and Counting Caring: Attending to the Human in an Age of Public Management (Cornell Cooperative Extensions, 2007). She has a PhD in Adult & Extension Education from Cornell University.

DATE: Tuesday, October 20th, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. 
Location: Peggy Ryan Williams Center, HR Training/Conference Room

To RSVP for this event, please visit the following link: http://form.jotform.us/form/52790963926166

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Michelle Rios-Dominguez at mriosdominguez@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-1506. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.