Appreciating

Differences
Conditions for achieving a respectful environment.

Appreciating Differences is a highly

interactive program that helps create an
inclusive environment.
This program helps managers and employees achieve their full
potential through exploration of their personal attitudes
toward differences and how those perspectives link to
behaviors on the job. This program is a fundamental building
block for diversity and inclusion initiatives.
Overview
With a pressure-free approach to exploring diversity, this
AT A GLANCE:
n Audience: Managers and employees at all
levels, across all functions; senior
executives.
n Flexible delivery options: One-day
classroom program, half-day program,
online facilitated webinar, and 60-minute
eLearning program.
n In addition, a four-hour senior executive
version is available.
n Realistic scenarios that challenge learners
out of their comfort zones.

program enables learners to discover how diversity impacts

business, and provides participants a private examination of
their reactions toward human differences. It also motivates
them to embrace the role of a diversity change agent to
Appreciating Differences
promote workplace inclusion, employee engagement, and builds critical skills that
productivity. leverage the broad spectrum
of human diversity, which
Outcomes creates a competitive
advantage.
Appreciating Differences teaches participants that diversity
extends far beyond age, ethnicity, and gender, to include work
style, location, education, religions, tenure, physical attributes
and abilities, family status, sexual orientation, and more.

As participants move through the program, they are reminded

that mere tolerance of others is not enough—truly appreciating
differences is a necessary component for all organizations
developing an engaged and highly functioning workforce.

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The program reinforces and motivates participants to
see the clear connection and benefits of being a
diversity change agent for the organization and within
their own teams. This realization is vital as it helps to
drive the performance of others, regardless of role or
title. Organizations that expect change agent
behaviors build a highly functioning, inclusive culture
that strengthens employee loyalty, attracts and
increases retention of top talent, and strengthens
customer relationships.
Learning objectives:
n Expand thinking about diversity and inclusion to
include marketplace as well as workforce diversity
issues.
n Explore personal worldview and examine how it
shapes beliefs and behaviors when working with
others.
n Recognize bias, where it comes from, and how it
affects our interactions, decisions, and behaviors.
n Understand why, how, and when to act as a
diversity change agent to leverage differences for
shared success.
n Apply decision-making frameworks to make higher
quality decisions about interactions with others
who are different.
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APPRECIATING DIFFERENCES
PROGRAM.
Agenda:
n Diversity Makes a Difference.
n Attitudes Toward Differences.
n Promoting Inclusion.
Topics covered.
Sessions on increasing personal awareness,
understanding the business case for diversity and
inclusion, conscious and unconscious biases and
behaviors, change agent responsibilities, practice skills,
action planning, and more.
Learning methodologies.
Interactive exercises, self-assessments, comprehension
checks, video vignettes, discussions, self-reflection
modules, role-plays, simulation, and exercises.
Language.
English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese,
Simplified and Traditional Chinese, with additional
translation services available.
Reinforcement tools.
The Appreciating Differences toolkit is available for
managers who need to share the program’s diversity
foundation with employees who could not attend a
classroom or online program. The toolkit consists of
three one-hour manager led meetings “in-a-box.”
Train-the-trainer certification.
Program licensing and trainer development is available
with the Korn Ferry certification program.
About Korn Ferry
Korn Ferry is the preeminent global people and
organizational advisory firm. We help leaders,
organizations, and societies succeed by releasing
the full power and potential of people. Our nearly
7,000 colleagues deliver services through our
Executive Search, Hay Group and Futurestep
divisions. Visit kornferry.com for more information.