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expand your customer base and skillfully utilize your diverse workforce |
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Business strategy |
Preventing harassment |
Diversity training |
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Employee coaching |
Corporate culture analysis |
Professional development |
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From the factory floor to the executive suite - we have experience and knowledge. |
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We know the challenges of profit and loss responsibility and can bridge the gap between sensitive subject matter and workplace productivity. |
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Strategy and Training Partners, LLC takes diversity training and analysis from the subjective toward utilizing diversity as a business strategy. |
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Would your team benefit from a knowledgeable partner in creating an inclusive workplace? |
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Does your team . . . |
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consider all aspects of diversity-such as thinking styles, technical skills, and educational levels-when forming teams? |
Notice any common characteristics of employees chosen for challenging and critical team assignments. |
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feel comfortable communicating across cultures? |
Look at the organization's response to customers, coworkers, and direct reports who grew up in a different socioeconomic class, speak English as a second language, or have a physical disability. |
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see strength in differences? |
Think about whether many employees merely tolerate the differences between other groups and themselves. |
If you answered "no", or even "not sure", to any of these, contact us. We'll help you get to "yes"!
According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, nearly half of companies with a diversity initiative expect to be enabled to tap diverse customers and markets.
To compete today, you and your team must be able to communicate with many different customers.
Let Strategy and Training Partners, LLC help you pursue an inclusive organizational culture where all employees produce to their capabilities.
We'll train your managers to focus on employees' skills and output, rather than on groups.
Our training and coaching programs can protect your company--demonstrate you've taken reasonable care to prevent harassment.
There are three steps to an inclusive environment:
#3. Implement strategy, including training & coaching
Assessment: We design and analyze employee and customer surveys, focus groups, and interviews to determine how the organization is experienced by different constituents.
Strategy: we devise actionable plans to create an inclusive environment.
Implementation: we help you institute a diversity initiative- from training employees to designing inclusive work practices.
Interactive small-group workshops
Engaging large-group presentations
Targeted one-on-one coaching and work group retreats
Program descriptions are shown here.
Or, we'll customize a program to meet your needs.
Let us partner with you to create an inclusive,
harassment-free, productive workplace.
Tell us what you what you're working on--we may have a program to meet your needs.
Since 1994, Strategy and Training Partners, LLC has assisted corporations, government agencies, educational institutions, and not-for-profit organizations-including:
ACI Telecentrics Health Extras
Atlantic Pharmaceutical Services IBM-Canada
Business Seminar Series (Carroll Community College) Impressions Marketing
Cendant ING Direct
Choice Hotels INTELSAT
Datatel Merrill Corporation
Enterprise Rent-A-Car NationsBank
Wilmington Trust
Goucher College University of Texas Medical Branch
Sidwell Friends School Numerous Public and Private Schools in St. Louis, MO
University of Maryland
American Red Cross Maryland Aviation Administration
Andrews Air Force Base Maryland Transportation Authority
Baltimore's Office of Employment Development National Institute of Standards and Technology
Howard County Government (including Police and Fire departments, Department of Public Works, etc.) Washington DC Metro Authority
HUD-St. Louis
WIC-Arizona
Not-for-Profit Agencies and National Associations:
Adventist Health Care The Nature Conservancy
American Nursery and Landscaping Association National Wildlife Federation
American Urological Association Nursery Growers of Lake County Ohio
Maryland Committee for Children A World of Difference
What Our Clients Have Said About Us
"Strategy and Training Partners took our diversity training ideas and created comprehensive Leader's Manuals. These Manuals enable us to use line supervisors as workshop facilitators, saving our in-house training team time and money.
Illysa is a well-rounded training resource. She brings strong content knowledge to the subject of diversity. In addition, her design and writing skills enable her to produce excellent results with fast turnaround."
Beth Chesterton, Director of Training for Boatmen's Bancshares (now NationsBank)
"My experience working with you (Strategy and Training Partners, LLC) was quite positive and produced some very concrete results. More specifically, your help in creating several strategic business plans, developing some financial and demographic models as well as competitive industry studies were key to our company obtaining new development . . . opportunities."
David Smith, President of One-on-One Senior Living Centers
"She (Ms. Izenberg) has the ability to read the group and respond to its needs. She understands group interactions and questions participants in a timely and effective manner. She has a very professional air, yet is amiable. She is a joy to work with; I will hire her again."
Patricia Clark, Director of Social Services for the National Benevolent Association/HUD-St. Louis
What participants in our training programs have said
"I thought this session was going to be a complete waste of time. However, I have learned so much about what an inclusive environment is and what it would take to get us there--I have to say that this class is crucial to our future success. I'm going to send my whole team to the next one offered."
Senior manager of a multinational corporation
"My supervisor asks me, 'where is your schedule? What is your plan?', and I think to myself, 'I'm an engineer! I didn't go to school to learn this stuff.' But now I see what tools to use when, what my supervisor needs to get his job done, and what I need to do to get him off my back. I feel much more prepared to manage my projects from start to finish without so many things falling through the cracks or turning into major fires."
Senior Engineer
"The information shared here today taught me new aspects on how to deal with difficult situations I've had in the past in a more professional manner."
Manager of architectural team
"I have taken a lot of training programs before but this was absolutely the best I've ever attended!"
Retail Manager
"I have renewed confidence in my company -- if it can make such a smart decision as to bring you in maybe the new management team really is going to change things around here for the better!"
Engineer in newly merged firm
"This program has been a good use of my time because it provided some simple tools to help organize the planning prcoess of a project. It demonstrated the collaborative buy-in potential that good planning can enable."
Team Leader, Government Agency
"This program was a good use of my time because as managers we need to have good coaching skills to make our work group more effecient. If I can train 5 of my team leaders to be able to resolve their own problems, we can accomplish much more than if I attempt to resolve all the problems myself."
Supervisor of construction crew
"Through the workshop, I learned the different communication styles of men and women and I have expanded my cultural comfort zone. I used to believe that treating people equally meant treating them the same. Now I realize that in many ways I was making assumptions that did not fit individuals with whom I work and to whom I sell. As a result, I am able to minimize misunderstandings previously caused by cultural differences."
Salesperson
"Illysa is a dynamic yet thoughtful workshop leader. She and her team take participants on a journey through self-exploration to understanding of difficult and sometimes controversial issues. They bring a business perspective to diversity education-which surprisingly is what we needed!"
Not-for-profit agency manager
"I applied the tools I learned in the first session to a project I am currently working on and I'm looking forward to the second session because I know there will be more I can use."
Manager, Transportation Firm
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