Diversity & Inclusion Training for Organizations
Diversity training for private companies, non-profits and government organizations
Background
Diversity exists in every organization, community and group.
Research and experience from around the world show a direct connection between successfully managing the organization’s diversity, improving employees’ sense of belonging, increasing creativity and improved business performance.
In Israel’s highly diverse society, employing a diverse workforce without the right approach for integrating and including them in the organization, or providing service to diverse customers, can cause difficulties and make the diversity a burden rather than a value.
The Merchavim Institute holds workshops for managers and teams to improve management in diverse environments, increasing the sense of belonging of diverse employees, the creation of a safe environment, increased trust in the organization and guarantee of successful inclusion and integration over time. Additionally, the workshops help organizations conduct themselves better with diverse audiences.
Our advantages:
- · Over 20 years of experience working with diverse organizations in Israel, with over 5,000 participants in our workshops.
- Experience with all of the different identity groups in Israel: sex, nationality, religion, age, heritage, socioeconomic groups, geographic locations, sexual orientation and more.
- Merchavim’s “Shared Citizenship Model” – a practical tool
- Over 20 studies that have proven the value of Merchavim’s programs over time.
- Learning through experience – connecting to the experience and needs of each organization.
- An experienced, skilled and diverse team of workshop leaders.· An experienced, skilled and diverse team of workshop leaders.
- Creating an environment that enables an open, respectful and save dialog.
Main Activities:
Merchavim offers organizations a variety of activities that help in successfully managing diversity: mapping the current situation in the organization and raising awareness, changing perceptions, establishing work practices and building assessment tools.
The activity is tailored to the organization’s needs and includes lectures, workshops, activities, training and support.
Merchavim’s activities include:
- Lectures
- · The potential in diversity
- · Unrecognized biases (in providing service to diverse populations, in recruiting employees and more)
- Social cohesion o the basis of the Shared Citizenship Moe.
- Diversity panel.
- Workshops
- Introduction to diversity
- Dilemmas, challenges and tools in diversity management
- Deep-dive workshops on creating equality.
- Supporting managers and employees:
- Mapping the diversity in the organizations
- Service with an eye on diversity
- Implementing policy that advances equality
- Supporting the building of an ethical code or service code for the organization
- Supporting the organizations ethical team
- “Train the Trainer” program
- Excursions
- “What you see from here you don’t see from there” – excursion workshop in Jasar A-Zarka or Jaffa
- Excursion group days on diversity topics
- Workshop for leading diverse groups.
Main Activities:
Title
Goal
Framework
The potential in diversity
Understanding the inherent advantages in employing people of various backgrounds, together with the challenges involved, and presenting the ways we can turn challenges to successes. Engaging lecture that touches on questions of subconscious bias. How do they come about? What is their impact and how can we overcome them?
90 minutes, in person or via zoom
Subconscious biases
The lecture is relevant also for those of us with high awareness, for people providing services to diverse audiences, recruiters, managers, and…everyone!
90 minutes, in person or via zoom
Social cohesion
The lecture is relevant also for those of us with high awareness, for people providing services to diverse audiences, recruiters, managers, and…everyone!
90 minutes, in person or via zoom
Disability or to be?
A fascinating lecture on the perspectives of people with disabilities, and the inherent potential of integrating in the organization and society. The lecture includes the personal reflections of Odely-a Fitussi, Israel’s representative in the UN Forum for people with disabilities, and a leading speaker and expert on the integration of teachers with disabilities.
90 minutes, in person or via zoom
Title
Goal
Framework
Diversity and inclusion – what and how?
An introductory workshop for managers to help understand the significance of diversity and inclusion in the organization – challenges, advantages and how to approach diversity and inclusion in the right way.
9 hour workshop
Introduction to diversity and inclusion
An interactive workshop which exposes participants to the connection between diversity, accessibility and justice. The workshop’s goal is to provide participants with a unique perspective on optimizing diversity in the workplace.
9 hour workshop. Number of meetings: 3 Each meeting: 3 hours in person or via Zoom
Dilemmas, challenges and tools in diversity management
Diversity without inclusion does more harm than good. Optimal management of diversity is complex and requires awareness, skill and care. In this workshop we will examine the challenges in diversity management and learn how equality and inclusion can be implemented day to day.
15 hour workshop. Number of meetings: 5 Each meeting: 3 hours in person or via Zoom
Establishing an equality scale together
A deep-dive process of learning and joint development of organizations tools and formal and informal ways to create an equal and inclusive work environment for employees, suppliers and customers with various identities. At the end of the workshop the organization will have a set of tools for a more equal and inclusive functioning.
20 hour workshop. Number of meetings: 6 Each meeting: 3 hours in person or via Zoom + a 2 hour concluding meeting
Title
Goal
Framework
Customer service in a multicultural approach
Most organizations provide service to customers with a wide variety of identities. These identities can differ in religion, nationality, age, sex, socio-economic position and more. We will examine together wat are the challenges facing the organization in providing services to customers with differing needs and develop an approach for optimal resource management with customers.
9 hour workshop. Number of meetings: 3 Each meeting: 3 hours in person or via Zoom
Improving personal and interpersonal skills in dealing with diverse populations
Improving the personal and interpersonal skills of managers and employees in the organization, to bring about an effective, inclusive interaction with employees, customers and partners of various identities.
6 hour workshop. Number of meetings: 2 Each meeting: 3 hours in person or via Zoom
Building and strengthening trust amongst various customers in the organization
The workshop is focused on improving the personal and interpersonal skills of managers and employees who interact with people from different backgrounds, to strengthen inclusive behavior that breeds trust between the organization an its customers.
6 hour workshop. Number of meetings: 2 Each meeting: 3 hours in person or via Zoom
Title
Goal
Framework
Mapping diversity in the organization
Understanding that human identity is varied and complex, and in order to fully understand the depths of diversity, we need to dig deeper into the various identities in the organization. Looking at the identities of employees and their situations – with different audiences, in key positions and in different levels in the organization, we’ll examine together questions like the presence of diverse employees in senior positions, key forums and decision making roles in the organization. We’ll also look at what audiences the organization works with, targets and the diversity of the organization’s partners and suppliers.
Depends on the organization’s size and availability. Basic package is for 4 hours, with every additional hour at a rate of 480 NIS per hour
Support for diversity groups and organizational inclusion
Support for the process of forming a group at the organization whose goal is to establish and improve the process of recruiting and integrating people of diverse backgrounds in the organization, in order to implement a strong strategy for diversity implementation at the organization. Merchavim’s experts guide organizations in implementing an equal and inclusive policy through ongoing learning, identifying challenges and making adaptations.
According to the needs of the organization
Title
Goal
Framework
Variety panel – “This is how it works here”
Panel with diverse panelists which presents the similarities and differences between us.
90 minutes in person or via Zoom
“What we see from here is not what we see from there”
On-site tours which give insight to different groups in Israeli society who live “one next to the other” or “together.” It is a significant on-site visit that is accompanied by a workshop to understand the tour and the relationships that are formed by people from diverse backgrounds (the tours take place in Jaser-A-Zarka and Jaffa).
One or two full days
Fair teaching in a diverse environment
Israel’s higher education institutions are home to students from the rich variety of identities in Israel. A strengthening of an inclusive environment to the variety of identities of students in the classroom will help the teaching staff to address the needs of students. In this workshop, we examine the challenges, dilemmas and situations in which we find inequality in the classroom. We will work together on ways to overcome them on a personal and professional level and provide practical tools to empower students of various backgrounds.
9 hour workshop, 2 or 3 meetings, 3 or 4 hours per meeting, in person or via Zoom
Amongst our clients
We work various organizations including corporations, government organizations, educational institutions (schools, higher education etc.), municipalities and civic organizaitons.
Testimonials
- Diversity & Inclusion Training for Organizations
You helped us put a spotlight on the dilemmas that need to be addressed, to formulate solutions together, and to learn how to derive benefits from diversity.
Shlomit Meyers
- Diversity & Inclusion Training for Organizations
“The workshop allowed for a wide and open look at the topic of diversity and inclusion and not the recycling of buzzwords.”
Yael Ren
- Diversity & Inclusion Training for Organizations
“Faculty felt comfortable expressing themselves on sensitive issues… A significant advantage is that Merchavim offers activities that relate to all groups of Israeli society.”
Michal Barak
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The people that make it happen
Sharon White Galperin
Diversity Management in Organizations
Sharon makes her home in Katzir, Wadi Ara. She has a BA in Business Administration and East Asian Studies and a MBA, specializing in Marketing and Mediator. After a 20 year long career in marketing and business development in global companies Sharon decided to follow her dream and leverage her many years of social activism into a professional career creating social change. She has experience in community management and support, community-social processes, dialogue and civic action groups, and leadership programs on ecology, civic involvement and action. Sharon joined Merchavim in 2018
Contact Sharon at sharon@merchavim.net 054-9940444
