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A Network of Resources
Welcome to the nation’s leading resource for education and networking on workforce diversity. We are dedicated to creating a learning community in the business world to help your organization address diversity and its benefits.
 
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2008 E News Schedule
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  AARP Announces Best Employers for Workers Over 50 - YMCA of Greater Rochester Ranks #4 Nationwide! >>>
     
  Bausch & Lomb's Commitment to Diversity Earns National Recognition >>>
     
  Harter Secrest & Emery LLP Sharply Expands its Law School Diversity Scholarships >>>
     
  Call for ATHENA Nominations - Deadline for entries: Oct. 22 >>>
     
  Rochester Black Business Association Presents "Growing to the Next Level" Annual Luncheon and Trade Show October 31 >>>
     
  Re-Inventing Your Life: A Blueprint for Your Future >>>
     
  National Disability Employment Awareness Month Employer Recognition Awards Breakfast Oct. 8 >>>
     
  The Arts and Diplomacy: An American in Pyongyang >>>
     
  Five WDN Members Recognized by Human Rights Campaign Foundation >>>
     
  Sexual Orientation Workplace Discrimination: Know the Law and Your Rights! >>>
     
  NCBI Rochester Offers Half-day Community Workshops / October 1 >>>
     
  James M. Stewart Named Planned Parenthood President and CEO for Rochester/ Syracuse Region >>>
  Woman2Woman: Leadership in Action Program Starts November 7 >>>
     
  University at Buffalo Intercultural & Diversity Center to Host Diversity Conference / November 8, 2008 >>>
     
  Welcome New Member! QED Technologies >>>
     
  YMCA of Greater Rochester is featured in the book Encore: Finding Work that Matters in the Second Half of Life >>>
     
  Register Now for SHRM Diversity Conference & Exposition
October 27-29, 2008, in Atlanta, Georgia
     
  Three WDN Members - Kodak, Verizon and Xerox - Named to Black Enterprise Magazine's 2008 40 Best Companies for Diversity >>>
     

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Post Your Career Opportunities
Free to Workforce Diversity Network Members. Fees apply for non-members. >>>

 
 

September 18 an October 1, 2008
NCBI Rochester Presents Community Workshops

September 24, 2008
Sexual Orientation Workplace Discrimination: Know the Law and Your Rights!

September 25, 2008
Bridging the Gap: Building Community Through Diversity

November 8, 2008
Creating Climate for Change - “Team Work Makes the Dream Work” Diversity Conference

Welcome New Member
We are pleased to welcome QED Technologies to the Workforce Diversity Network. Since it was founded in 1996, QED Technologies, based in Rochester, NY, has built a reputation for producing high quality products based on revolutionary, patented technology, advanced computer numerical control machines and world-class software to provide shop-ready solutions for nearly any precision optics manufacturing need. >>>

 
Featured Member
Excellus: Valuing Diversity

Excellus BlueCross BlueShield's mission is to integrate diversity in all aspects of business with a focus on our workforce, members, suppliers and communities. its commitment is to build an inclusive culture that recognizes and values the uniqueness of each employee and all of their contributions and leverages its diverse workforce maximizing its competitive advantage, thereby enhancing company performance and profitability. >>>

 

 

     
Review of Ouch! That Stereotype Hurts: New Interactive Workshop by Leslie Aguilar
When we became aware that Leslie had developed an interactive workshop along with a 12-minute, skill-building video/DVD companion to her popular book, we wanted to learn more about it. >>>
 

Mixing Four Generations in the Workplace
By Cam Marston
Generation conflict costs billions of dollars in lost productivity to organizations like yours worldwide - not to mention the incalculable effects on motivation and morale. Now there's help with generational expert Cam Marston's new DVD course. >>>

 
The Leadership Secret of Gregory Goose™ Workshop
By Judith Glaser
This half day or full day workshop is for any organization or group of people who wish to define and strengthen their Leadership DNA. While the world agrees that "command and control" leadership is the dinosaur of the past, many of us disagree on what new leadership is all about. >>>
 

International Diversity & Inclusion Lexicon
By Diversity Journal
700 Ideas and Concepts Everyone Should Know
Diversity is about building relationships that respect an individual's inherent worth and dignity. At the heart of any relationship is communication. This lexicon is a valuable tool. >>>

 
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What Kind of Diversity Training Really Works?
By Gregg Ward, CMC
There are all kinds of diversity training methods out there: lectures, slideshows, videos, interactive games, online learning, role-play, group hugs, you name it. >>>

     
 

Why Sensitivity Training Is Insensitive and Patronizing
By Simma Lieberman
I found myself getting irritated by the very term "sensitivity training", and didn't know why I had such a visceral reaction. >>>

     
 

Obama, the Instability of Color Lines, and the Promise of a Postethnic Future
By David A. Hollinger
The focus of media depictions of Barack Obama as a "post-racial," “post-black” or "postethnic" candidate is usually limited to two aspects of his presidential campaign. >>>

     
 

The Imbalance of Life/Work Balance
By Simma Lieberman
As much as I love speaking, writing and helping people in organizations with work/life balance, I see imbalance in the work/life balance discussion.>>>

     
  Fake It Till You Make It: The Practical Bias Solution
By Sondra Thierderman, PhD
Have you ever had an attitude that, no matter how hard you tried, you just couldn’t seem to change? >>>
     

 

Review of Mixing Four Generations in the Workplace
Video program created by Cam Marston
By Mike Streeter >>>

 

 

 

 

Thinking About Diversity of Thought
By Susan Woods
Diversity of thought—the idea of more-than-one-way— is key to understanding the potential of diversity and inclusion as an organizational resource. >>>

     
 

Discovering Diversity Profile
By Bob Peter
As the dramatic shift to a highly diverse workplace continues, organizations know they must help employees understand, accept, and capitalize on differences. >>>

     
   

Study Points to a Need for Better Diversity Training
By Lindsay Edmonds Wickman >>>

     
     

 
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