BWH Diversity and Inclusion Training Courses:
Please note when enrolling for a 2 or 3 day workshop, you must register for each day separately.
You will notice that each code references a prerequisite. Once you have completed your registration please inform your manager that they will receive multiple requests for only two or three day workshops
Sign up for classes using PeopleSoft with the appropriate course code. These are listed alongside each course name. Any questions about the course or how to sign up should be directed to the bwhtraining@partners.org or (617)582-0120. Location of Courses is in PeopleSoft upon sign up.
BROWN BAG LUNCH SERIES
Course Code:BBL – then choose correct date you wish to attend
These sessions are typically held from 12:00PM – 1:00PM
Cost for materials: $0
No Credits for this Course
Open to all BWH employees, the BWH Employee Assistance Program and Organizational Development and Learning Departments are offering a series of bimonthly 1-hour Brown Bag Lunch seminars in collaboration with the Medical Area Federal Credit Union. The sessions will cover a variety of topics from tips on money management, managing credit, elder care considerations, stress management, balancing priorities, and dealing with teens. Come join us with your lunch in hand for a brief introduction to these topics and learn more about additional services available from these departments. Past Topics have included Money Management during Difficult Times: When Income Decreases But the Bills Don't, Managing Credit, Learning to Relax, Tips for Managing your Workload. Etc.
Brown Bag Lunch Series: Planning for Holidays on a Shoestring
Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Location: Anesthesia Conference Room (CWN L-1)
Dreading holiday spending is a problem many consumers face. Learning holiday saving tips and alternative gift ideas will reduce the stress. This workshop helps participants plan ahead and stay out of debt. Let’s bring the joy back into the holiday season. This session is brought to you by Organizational Development and Learning, Partners Employee Assistance Program, and the Medical Area Federal Credit Union (MAFCU). Please join Jackie Wiegleb from Consumer Credit Counseling Services to enhance your holiday planning knowledge.
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MULTI-GENERATIONAL WORKFORCE AWARENESS
Course Code: BWHLMW
This is a full day course running from 8:30AM – 4:30PM
Cost for Materials:$0
.7 IACET CEU Credit Available
Whether you are a nurse in charge, program manager, director, or unit supervisor, chances are you are managing an ever increasing age-diverse workforce. The current state of the American employment front has four generations-Matures, Boomers, Generation Xers and Generation Nexters-working side by side. And as they work together, their differences in outlook, values, communication styles, career expectations, and lifestyles collide in ways that are both simultaneously difficult and beneficial.
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify the differences and the similarities between the generations and appreciate how each generation's perspective can be an important workplace asset.
- Describe how age-related experiences and perspectives interact with other dimensions of diversity at work, such as job role, style and values, to create new workplace challenges and opportunities.
- Explain how employer/employee expectations are shaping the way we must interact and communicate as we reinvent our workplaces for the future.
- Provide explanation on how preferences, values, and backgrounds can help or hinder our effectiveness in communicating and working across generational differences.
- List the implications for workforce development as Matures and Boomers retire, Gen Xers move into leadership positions, and Nexters enter with new expectations.
- Gain new tools and tips for managing self and others in today's complex, age-diverse evolving workplace.
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MYERS BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR
Course Code:BWHMBT
This is a half day course running from 8:30AM – 12:30PM
Cost for Materials:$30
.4 IACET CEU Credit Available
Imagine you live in a 16 room house. You use each room, but there is one favorite, comfortable room where you always feel at your best. Your personality type is like that favorite room. In this session you will explore the Meyers Briggs Personality Type Indicator (MBTI) and gain an understanding of your personality type in the workplace. We will explore your preferences for expressing yourself, using information, making decisions and meeting deadlines. In the process, you will discover why we often consider "different" people to be "difficult" and you will find out ways to be flexible in your approach and interaction with coworkers, patients, managers, friends and relatives. Our focus will be on day-to-day behaviors. Learning Outcomes: Identify your individual MBTI type; Recognize the strengths and weaknesses of your type; Learn how others may perceive you; understand how you may perceive others; identify the pitfalls of communication; develop strategies for improvement; learn how to improve decision making.
Learning Outcomes:
Identify your individual MBTI ® type
Recognize the strengths and weaknesses of your type
Learn how others may perceive you
Understand how you may perceive others
Identify the pitfalls of communication
Develop strategies for improvement
Learn how to improve decision-making
Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009
Time: 8:30am to 12:30pm
Location: Crosstown Center, 801 Mass Ave. 7th Floor
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TRUE COLORS AND VALUING DIFFERENCES
Course Code:BWHVD
This is a half day course running from 8:30AM – 12:30PM
Cost for Materials:$30
.4 IACET CEU Credit Available
This course is typically given to departments as an intact training by consultants from the OD&L department on an as needed or requested basis.
This course focuses on the importance of recognizing and embracing individual and team differences. It discusses the importance of respect in the workplace and aligns it to the organization’s value of “Respect for the Individual”. The course provides participants with opportunities to discover what triggers disrespectful behavior as well as determine what behaviors are appropriate or inappropriate at work. In order to successfully complete this workshop and earn credit participants must attend all portions of the training and complete all related activities.
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify your True Colors ® personality style
- Explain the common traits associated with each of the 4 style types
- Identify people's personality style preferences
- Demonstrate effective techniques to communicate and interact more effectively with peers based on personality style preferences learned
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VALUING DIVERSITY
Course Code:BWHBIW
This is a full day course running from 8:30AM – 4:30PM
Cost for Materials:$0
.7 IACET CEU Credit Available
Managing one’s work relationships is the key to success in any work environment. In order to work most effectively with others, each of us should assess when and how to give and receive feedback. In addition to this, we need to be aware of and sensitive towards interpersonal communication styles, and individual differences. As each of us learns to develop our own ways to build trust among our co-workers, we learn to demonstrate integrity in the workplace. The morning will focus primarily on these issues using a variety of interactive learning activities and role-plays. The afternoon will focus on furthering what we have learned to better understand different communication styles and how to approach, respond to, and collaborate with each of these different types. We will work to formulate new ideas for building collaboration and fostering teamwork in the workplace. From this we will learn to identify ways for managing negativity and dealing with difficult persons in the workplace. These sessions are designed to provide practical tools for employees at all levels to take back to the work environment and apply them easily.
Learning Outcomes:
- Assess when and how to give and receive feedback
- Understand the role of interpersonal communication and demonstrating sensitivity to individual differences
- Develop ways to build trust among co-workers and demonstrate integrity in the workplace
- List communication styles and how to approach, respond, and collaborate with each other
- Formulate new ideas for building collaboration and fostering teamwork in the workplace
- Identify ways for managing negativity and dealing with difficult persons in the workplace
Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Time: 8:30am to 4:30pm
Location: Crosstown Center, 801 Mass Ave 7th Floor
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