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Diversity and multicultural issues

Indian Grandmother On Snow Skis Quite Inspirational

Indian Grandmother Skier Sometimes I meet the most interesting people as part of my ski teaching during the winter.  This week was a good example when I was called to teach a private one on one ski lesson at the … Continue reading

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More Human Diversity In The Workplace

More From Diversity In The Workplace Event Here is more from the Asian Heritage Month event I posted on recently.  Last time, I featured some Chinese cultural dancers and indeed, the representation from this Asian group was quite high at … Continue reading

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Workplace Diversity Event For Asian Heritage Month

Workplace Diversity In Corporate Canada I was a performer at a major Canadian bank’s workplace diversity event yesterday as part of Asian Heritage Month.  Apparently, this bank has an internal Asian employee network and this was one of the events … Continue reading

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Gender Diversity Example Smashes Stereotype

  Gender Diversity Example Although I usually do not want to generalize, but I can’t help but notice that in many cultures, girls are not encouraged to be very active in sports.  As a result, when many of these girls … Continue reading

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Diversity In Schools Show On Ski Slopes

photo credit: Park City Mountain Resort Diversity In Schools Part of my ski teaching involves big school groups where many of the students from grades 4 to 6 are trying snow skiing for the first time.  Ski days as part … Continue reading

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Groups Recognize Importance Of Managing Diversity In The Workplace

photo credit: PRSA National Managing Diversity In The Workplace After a relatively quiet summer, I’ve headed into a string of paid speaking engagements for the fall with types of organizations ranging from colleges to non-profits groups with some further opportunities … Continue reading

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Drums From Africa Another Motivational Music Video

African Drums Motivational Music I usually attend a big multicultural festival in Mississauga, Ontario each year called Carassauga as part of my ongoing human diversity exposure. I was lucky enough to catch an all female African drums music group at … Continue reading

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Interpersonal Skills Tip From Diversity Training

photo credit: caffeina Interpersonal Skills Tip With Other Cultures Since I’m in the midst of doing some diversity training presentations at colleges and non-profit organizations, I might as well outline one of the tips I present.  This is a very … Continue reading

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Motivational Stories About Ethnicity In Hockey

photo credit: antifuse Motivational Stories From Hockey I love hearing about motivational stories especially from high profile sports like ice hockey that has a ethnicity angle.  For generations, ice hockey was considered a ‘white’ sport.  No ethnics or people of … Continue reading

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Stretch Out Your Examples Of Diversity

photo credit: bernardoh Explore Other Examples Of Diversity It’s great to broaden your horizons and get more diversity exposure.  However, sometimes when we begin to take efforts to get that exposure, we often stick with the most ‘popular’ or obvious … Continue reading

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