XD Business Consulting

These are the services offered by Xamining Diversity (XD) consulting along with the requisite rationale.

Diversity “Needs” Assessment

The needs of every business operation vary greatly. Detailed and intimate conversations about the nature, goals, and expectations of the company or business are invaluable to assessing the mission and vision. Successful querying of the varying company stakeholders regarding the needs and necessities of the business, positions XD to fully examine diversity.

Developing and Accessing Resources

Diversity resources are often readily available, but not accessed because of the lack of knowledge about diversity or irreconcilable perspectives on diversity. Recognizing and revealing the organizations resources and developing the resources that are pertinent to an organizations success are essential to enhanced efficiency. Developing and accessing resources is accomplished through some of the various methods:

- Organizational Eyes and Ears

- Marketing the Message

- Programming

Employee Education

While an effort should be made to educate all the employees within the organization, a critical mass of employees, eager to immerse themselves in the educational moment that Xamining Diversity provides, is what will sustain, if not continue to advance the initiative. XD has progressive strategies that can assist businesses in this effort.

Training Facilitators

Consultation is an ongoing process. When consultation is done thoroughly many participants are empowered to become activists with the necessary skills to facilitate the diversity initiative(s) that are necessarily needed. XD recognizes that it is impossible for any one individual to literally do it all, so the next logical step is educating and mentoring employees to become facilitators and possibly even educators themselves.

Planning the Work and Working the Plan

Ensuring that the diversity effort is institutionalized within the organization may be the most significant effort a business can undertake when endeavoring to advance a diversity initiative. Creating a diversity plan that clearly identifies the primary diversity practitioners and their respective connections to one another is as much a necessity as seeking and celebrating diversity is itself.

Diversity Enlightenment II

If your organization was enlightened and empowered from the Diversity Enlightenment Session they attended, wait until your business operation is exposed to DE II. Once the labor force has been diversity enlightened it is reassuring to know that, for the most part, the employees are all operating from a more communal perspective on diversity. Now it is time to build on that perspective by seeking further enlightenment, and DE II is all that and much more. Suffice it to say, DE II is where the conversation gets more personal, and so the enlightenment becomes more personal.

**By the way, if you have not experienced a Diversity Enlightenment session yet, what are you waiting for?**

Diversity Conversation – Diversity Lectures

Attempts at educating people about diversity are more viable if they are creatively finding ways of getting participants involved. If a diversity initiative is structured around a so-called expert only talking to the participants and not with them, that initiative is suspect in terms of its viability of challenging those participants to own diversity. Conversations that are challenging and yet some how comfortable are what we specialize in when we assist a business to “examine diversity!

Interestingly enough, some of the best moments you can experience are attending very relaxed, honest, and sincere lectures on some worthwhile topics followed by rigorous question – answer sessions. This is what a diversity lecture on genuine, problematic human interaction can actually provide. Business interests of the company withstanding, an investment in its employees professional and interpersonal development is one of the best investments a company can make it its productivity. These are very often the types of lectures that are 40 minutes long, but only seem like 15minutes. They are also the type of conversations that stay with you weeks later.

Diversity Film Series & WRAP Session

With proper advertisement, enticing incentives, and an engaging facilitator, this is a diversity event that you simply can’t miss. XD’s experience in utilizing film as a point of departure for diversity discussion is steeped in a tradition of success, having created and facilitated the SUNY Plattsburgh CDPI Diversity Film Series & WRAP Session as well as created the general education course that also served as a faculty professional development tool and a student leadership development course. How can a film as an educational vehicle serve three different groups. You will only discover the answer to that if you examine diversity.

A Diverse Recruitment Effort

Recruitment and retention of a racially diverse labor force in a predominantly racially limited environment are the woes that ail many businesses in rural areas or remote regions located outside of the larger cities. How do you get past the traditional obstacles that have not only prevented, but intimidated businesses from exploring creative strategies? We believe that answer lies in how far you are willing to go to examine diversity?

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Previous XD clients include: Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Chazy, NY; Pace University, NYC; Paul Smiths College, NY; Excelsior College, NY; UVM, VT; Bombardier Corp., NYC; City of Seattle, WA; and Princeton Junior Scholars, NJ

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