Thursday, August 16, 2012
Diversity Training in South Africa
Diversity Training in South Africa - a member of the Celebrating Humanity International stable has a brand new website. So too, does the founding director, author and diversity speaker - Brian V Moore. Learn more about fellow director, writer and powerful catalyst of change - Arthie Moore. 
Read up and contribute to Arthie Moore's blog on Relationships, and visit our Transform Your Diverse Teams blog and the Ways we Learn, Teach and Present blog.
Get your diversity training proposal, team building proposal or team conflict resolution proposal from either site.Spirit of African Leadership.
Traditional and Western Leadership has a legacy of “I tell - you do.” Although there is a growth in the concept of participative leadership this is not enough.
The young man and lady slouched back in their chairs during a recent 1 day Celebrating Humanity diversity training session.
She spoke up, “This is brilliant. But where are the managers and directors?”.
“Yes.” the young man agreed, “They always send us on courses, yet it is they who need the most change. They just decide that we must be trained. And they don’t know what it is about, nor do they follow the “new” way.”
Simply put team members are no longer pawns. They can be fully participating members of any organisation as long as:
• there is full ownership for their personal behaviours and actions, from all members of the organisation - from board level to the general workforce.
• all team members are valued, feel valuable and value the uniqueness and difference in others.
• all are part of a team where everyone operates within a peer-selected, peer-managed set of positive and values and behaviours and actively exclude non-acceptable behaviours from their interactions.
• a peer-controlled inter-personal values-based structure is constituted and managed on a regular basis.
• A separate set of organisational values/ principles has been developed and accepted by all role players to ensure that issues such as client relationships, theft, corruption, fraud, professionalism are all adequately covered by company regulations.
It is critical that no-one is above the rules of inter-personal respect and organisational values.
Leaders lead and work with people. Leaders are accountable to self, team and company.
Traditional managers manage resources. They are only accountable to their seniors.
Brian V Moore
www.brianvmoore.com
