Conference Sessions By Track
Track: Managing Your D&I Initiatives
Get both innovative and practical how-to ideas for developing a harmonious workplace that not only accommodates differences but leverages them for greater productivity. These sessions provide practical steps backed up by solid research for recruiting, managing and accommodating disabled employees, different generations, cultures, ethnicities, religions and more.
You will learn how to move beyond just a surface-level diversity initiative to a culture that fosters an engaged, innovative and best practice-driven workforce. Monday, October 22, 2012 | 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM | |
How to Successfully Recruit, Hire and Retain Veterans with Disabilities This session will share This session will share lessons learned and will show you how to apply best practices to welcome and effectively support veterans with disabilities in your company.our company. Monday, October 22, 2012 | 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM | |
Understanding the Business Impact of Workplace Bullying This session will show you how to effectively deal with the devastating effects of workplace bullying as well as demonstrate its effects on your ability to attain your organization’s strategic goals. Monday, October 22, 2012 | 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM | |
Weaving Inclusive Networks: Putting Social Network Analysis to Work This session introduces a valuable tool, SNA (Social Network Analysis)/ONA (Organizational Network Analysis), for guiding your efforts toward increasing the social capital of women and people of color. Monday, October 22, 2012 | 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM | |
Your Brain Is Good at Inclusion … Except When It's Not! Robbins will take you on an insightful and humorous look at the brain and how its natural, built-in biases make it difficult for the average person to inhabit diverse and inclusive environments. Monday, October 22, 2012 | 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM | |
Disability and Physical Difference Attend this session and gain a better understanding of the disability culture and how it relates to other cultures in the workplace. Tuesday, October 23, 2012 | 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM | |
Traversing the Generational Divide: What You Need to Know to Benefit from Generational Differences This session will show you how to defuse tension at work and allow the four generations in the workforce to learn about and appreciate their differences. Tuesday, October 23, 2012 | 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM | |
Moving Beyond the Inclusion Illusion This content-rich session is filled with the tools to help you accelerate your D&I initiative into a business-focused imperative your leaders will embrace. Wednesday, October 24, 2012 | 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM | |
The New Workforce: Social Networks, Internet Revolutions and Hypertext Thinking This session will share research on successful practices various organizations have used to respond to the changing preferences and needs of the newest entrants into the workforce. Wednesday, October 24, 2012 | 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM |