Greetings!

I could use some assistance with a response (not too lengthy) regarding a project I am designing for leadership regarding DIVERSITY & INCLUSION (OLHS-115). I kindly ask please to LIMIT AI sources and please provide your own response. AI will not assist me, thank you very much!

You are to design an educational workshop that will bring a group of senior-level managers together to explore, discuss, and strategize about how to address and advance diversity and inclusion in their respective departments, divisions, and entire organizations. The organization you have been invited to present to has 300 employees with multiple leaders and managers.

Here is the situation one must consider as you build the workshop process, details, and strategies.

1. This organization is taking its first steps to implement and diversity and inclusion (D&I) strategy for all employees. All efforts previously have been informal and built around mandatory compliance training (as advised by the legal counsel for the organization). There is now a strong push to move from D&I training as compliance to D&I training as deeper understanding leading to commitment and then leading to compliance.

2. These senior leaders and managers are have not openly discussed together their personal and thoughts and feelings about diversity and inclusion. The tension and stress among the senior leadership team is palpable.

3. Many employees have felt that D&I has not been a priority for these leaders and thus for the organization. As a result, this organization is starting to lose talented and diverse employees who feel as though the communities of diversity they represent are not valued or wanted.

4. These leaders and managers will need support, encouragement, and honest conversation to implement strategies and approaches that will help address the issue retention "and" beginning to build a culture where D&I become a part of this organization's culture.

5. There will need to be personal metrics and organizational metrics that the leaders and managers can use to know they are making progress as individual professionals and also as an organization. Students are to design a specific, implementable, and operational workshop strategy that will address all 5 of the items mentioned above.

Thanks again!