When I first started my career in journalism 24 years ago, companies didn't provide diversity training.
During the mid-1990's diversity training became a mandatory element of office life, but it always centered on a black/white, male/female balance.
Dr. Bill Hunter, president of Global Competence Consulting out of Nazareth, Pa. takes a global approach with a goal of making participants "the others". Hunter ran a program this week at Northeastern Senior High School in Manchester, Pa.
The goal today is to make you feel as though you are "the other". "The other" for every one of you is different. You each fit into your own cultural box in some way.
Your kids, my kids need to be ready for the global workforce. And in doing that they're not going to be living in that bubble I grew up in. They're are going to be working in a multi-national, multi-racial, multi-cultural, multi-linguistic workforce and if they can't thrive and in fact succeed in that environment they're going to be lost.
--- Dr. Bill Hunter
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