3.  Awareness (Exercise)  Barriers to Diversity Reduce Mission Effectiveness  Effective Management of Diversity Improves Mission Effectiveness, a FAIR way  Diversity in Practice Overview

4. EExercise MP1 Awareness Awareness of our own perceptions and biases is essential to managing diversity in the work place.

5. MP1 What is Diversity? MP1 What is Diversity? Diversity simply means Differences in people. RACE PERSONALITY DISABILITY GENDER AGE RELIGION EDUCATION NATIONALITY

6. MP 2 Barriers to Diversity ETHNOCENTRISM -the tendency to view the world from one’s personal or ethnic perspective and to judge others’ values, norms, and behavior as wrong if they differ.

7. MP 2 Barriers to Diversity  Stereotyping  Prejudice  Discrimination  Collusion

8. MP2 What is Stereotyping?  Categorizing  An oversimplified standardized image of a person or group

9. MP2 What is Prejudice?  Preconceived  Biased  Directed against

10.  Unfairness  bigotry  The act of drawing a distinction MP2 What is Discrimination?

11. MP2 What is Collusion?  Silence  Denial  Active Participation

12. MP3 Effective Management of Diversity  BENEFITS Wider perspectives on problem solving Improves mission effectiveness Positive organizational image that helps in recruiting the best people for the organization Larger set of knowledge, skills, abilities, and experiences for meeting the organizational mission

13. The FAIR Way to Manage Diversity MP3 The FAIR Way

14. FFeedback AAssistance IInclude RRespect

15. MP4 Diversity in Practice Mission- ensuring fair and equitable treatment for all members, creating an environment that optimizes the contributions of a diverse workforce, and advising the commander of all matters pertaining to human resources. Goal-to create and maintain a fully developed, skilled, motivated, enthusiastic, and diverse workforce. AFRC Strategic Plan – www.demoi.orgwww.demoi.org Human Resource Development Council

16. WHY DO WE SERVE “The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.” ~Gandhi “We make a living by what we do, but we make a life by what we give.” ~Winston Churchill “Everybody can be great because everybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve... You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love...” – ~Martin Luther King Jr.

17. Summary Awareness (Exercise) Barriers to Diversity Reduce Mission Effectiveness Effective Management of Diversity Improves Mission Effectiveness, a FAIR way Diversity in Practice