Creating Partnership

Second phase of the Opening Doors Diversity Project’s organizational development approach:

2. Building knowledge and skills

Maintaining a balance in professional development between building knowledge and increasing skills is critical to creating partnership. Workshops that focus on building knowledge through education expand individual awareness and provide the philosophy that guides day-to-day decision-making. Training provides the expanded skills people need to be successful across a broad array of needs

Examples of Education Workshops:

• The Role of Vision in Our Work
• Providing Service in Partnership
• Latino/Hispanic Culture: Deepening our Understanding of the People we Serve
• Our Circle of Influence and Our Circle of Concern in Troubling Times
• Working in Partnership: The Ethics of Collaboration
• Nurturing Partnership in a Dominator Context: A Focus on Immigration
• Are We Really Open to Multiple Perspectives? What will it take?

Examples of Training

• Decision Making Strategies for Working in Partnership
• Achieving Win-Win Solutions
• Communication: From inspiring openness and trust to stifling innovation
• Understanding and meeting the needs of English Language Learners
• Providing Service Through an Interpreter
• Time Management
• High Expectations and Accountability: The cornerstone of partnership

We will guide the planning process assuring that professional development focuses on the unique blend of knowledge and skills based workshops your team needs.

1. Developing understanding and commitment

3. Establishing partnership as a process of continual reflection, planning and growth