Debora Bloom Associates helps organizations design and strengthen their Diversity and Inclusion strategy through assessment, facilitation, on-going consultation, and training. We work with you to:

• Identify and leverage diversity strengths your organization already has

• Mobilize what needs to be developed

• Position Diversity and Inclusion as an integral part of how your organization conducts its business and meets its business goals.

In getting started, some areas we explore with you are:

• How diversity and inclusion connect to your business goals

• Level of executive support for diversity and inclusion in your organization

• What you do to attract, retain and develop diverse talent

• How you build cultural competence

• Policies and practices that need to be modified

• Data that support your Diversity and Inclusion actions

• Communication practices with employees, customers, vendors, and the public

We believe in starting Diversity and Inclusion work with an assessment. Our assessments can include interviews, focus groups, assessment tools, and other data sources. We then review our findings with you so you can make sound choices about where to focus the company's attention and how you might like to continue with our services.

Diversity and Inclusion Training can result in:

• increased cultural competence for your staff,

• expanded staff awareness of impact and scope of diversity,

• enhanced collaboration skills,

• improved practices for managing staff fairly,

• customer attraction and retention.

The starting point for your company's diversity learning depends on what you want to accomplish. It is most powerful when linked to your company's business strategy.

Three approaches: Some topics work well as stand-alone programs. Others can serve as building blocks for deepening knowledge and building skills. A third approach is to embed the Diversity and Inclusion material into other kinds of training you offer.

Debora Bloom Associates' training solutions create intercultural understanding, enhance organization effectiveness and reduce conflict using a experiential learning approaches. Contact us to explore ways we can help you develop, position and reinforce Diversity and Inclusion Training.

Click our Workshops tab to learn about the range of programs we offer.

In a perfect world, a company would not need expert guidance on how to prevent harassment in the workplace. But sometimes it is in the best interest of a company to get such guidance, and Debora Bloom Associates has extensive experience in this area.

Whether a monitoring agency has mandated that your firm have harassment prevention training, or you, as the firm's management, think it's good practice to make your employees aware of the current laws on this topic, we can provide the necessary training.

Debora Bloom Associates offers employee-level and management-level harassment prevention training. We conduct training on-site or at a location of your choosing. In addition, we can provide your staff with update training on an annual basis. This allows all new employees to be informed and experienced employees to stay current.

Our harassment prevention training begins with our understanding of why you want to conduct training at this time. The training itself consists of three components:

• First, we look at the essential elements of the law, both federal and state;

• Second, we ensure participants become familiar with your policy and practices;

• Finally, we have the group work through examples of varying kinds of harassment, and how to deal with them.

We deliver learning that is comprehensive and readily understood. Throughout the harassment prevention training, we stress that the law and your policy are designed to protect everyone from unwanted and illegal behavior and to provide a hospitable work place. Employees themselves need to be educated about what may or may not constitute unlawful harassment.

Participants leave with an increased understanding of the boundaries between appropriate and inappropriate workplace behavior.

Sometimes both new and experienced managers lack certain basic management skills. Debora Bloom Associates can help you structure your management development process, provide consultation on management practices and offer a range of workshops that address specific management competencies, including the following:

• Managing Performance

• Coaching and Developing Staff

• Interviewing and Selection

• Leading Change

• Team Building

We recognize that there is a clear relationship between management issues and diversity management. Managers often have problems managing their diverse workforce if they can't handle conflict, manage expectations, communicate expectations and give appropriate performance feedback to their staff. Our management development services are designed to strengthen these skill areas through assessment, coaching and training.