Business Express: Embracing diversity within your team

Embracing diversity within your team

Get the best out of every member of your team

Douglas Miller

Objectives

Specifically, the learning objectives are to understand:

• your attitude to diversity and to understand how you can, as a manager, climb into other people’s words
• the different roles that are played in an effective team and how to work best with the individuals who perform these roles
• how to manage and work best with team members displaying the differing cultural characteristics.

Context

In justifying diversity in organisations and, by extension, within teams, there are two core arguments that were historically presented as justification: ...