Move your training to the next level – Increase awareness…Improve staff engagement…Enhance skills…Encourage action.
| CASE STUDY: NEW LIFE FOR AN IMPORTANT CORPORATE OFFERING |
One of Sue’s corporate clients, a large pharmaceutical company was already doing diversity training but it just didn’t have the “Wow! Factor” they were looking for. Sue designed a new course that is fun, interactive, challenging and practical. Now 8000 employees are going through her course with an average rating of 4.5 out of a perfect score of 5.
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| CASE STUDY: NONPROFITS TURN GOOD WORKS INTO RIVETING STORIES |
Community Media Workshop (CMW) was training nonprofits to give better TV, radio and press interviews, but what the organizations were saying just wasn’t forceful enough. Often, because they were doing such good work, nonprofits and foundations thought their purpose and impact was obvious. CMW called in Sue to create a story seminar so that nonprofits would create more compelling, newsworthy stories. That partnership started over 10 years ago. In Sue’s Story Power seminar, nonprofits and foundations learn to turn their data into stories that appeal to donors, attract new leadership, appeal to media outlets and inspire quality volunteers while spreading their organization’s message and goodwill throughout the communities they serve. Thousands of nonprofit communicators have been through Sue’s seminar with an average of 4.7 out of 5 on CMW’s online evaluations.
| CASE STUDY: FROM BULLYING TO CULTURES OF RESPECT |
Teachers were witnessing their students treating each other with disrespect. Rather than a feeling of one organization, the school was divided into clear insider and outsider groups. The teachers who had taken Sue’s seminars asked her to create lessons plans to teach their students what they had learned in their staff seminar. The result was a two-year curriculum, Kaleidoscope: Valuing Differences and Creating Inclusion, with a self-paced teacher’s guide and a dedicated website, called InspireAClassroom. Teachers who felt they “didn’t have a clue of how to deal with the students’ racism and other bullying behaviors” reported three years later that the school climate had changed so much that inclusive behaviors were ingrained in every aspect of the school and that bullying was “rarely an issue anymore.”
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| CASE STUDY: BEING PRODUCTIVE IN A NEW COLLEGE ENVIRONMENT |
Students from rural areas were suddenly rooming with students from big cities. Students with radically different learning styles were being asked to study together. A predominantly white school was seeing its demographics change – new faces, religions and cultural backgrounds were on campus. The college’s orientation program and the student activity groups knew their fellow students weren’t interested in being lectured to. They called in Sue to design and offer presentations that would entertain while they spoke directly to the students’ concerns of cross cultural comfort and understanding.
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| CASE STUDY: IN ALIGNMENT WITH CORE VALUES BY BECOMING AWARE OF UNCONSCIOUS BEHAVIORS |
Faith-based organizations were concerned that their white members were unaware when it came to diversity and inclusion while their members of color were getting frustrated and losing hope. They knew that all their members genuinely cared about uncovering barriers to inclusion and their own unconscious exclusive behaviors. They asked Sue to design and deliver training that would bring their communities together to develop common language and empower them to work toward common goals. The communities have rated Sue’s seminars “excellent” and “beyond expectation”. So that these communities could continue to develop their awareness and skills, Sue created Walking the Talk a self-paced train the trainer diversity and inclusion seminar for nonprofit groups.