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IBM and the Center for Hispanic Leadership to Host a Free Webcast on July 29, 2010 that Will Address the War for Talent in the Workplace

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Sunday, December 26th, 2010

IBM and the Center for Hispanic Leadership to Host a Free Webcast on July 29, 2010 that Will Address the War for Talent in the Workplace













Los Angeles (Vocus) July 23, 2010

The Center for Hispanic Leadership (CHL), in partnership with IBM, will co-host a free webcast on July 29, 2010, at 10:00am PST / 1:00pm EST — that will address the key issues surrounding the nation’s next 24 months. Specifically, the war for talent and its role in today’s brave new workplace.

With the recent announcement of the Monetary Policy Report by Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, who reported a slow economic recovery, the role of talent and productivity in the workplace represents a critical component of an accelerated renewal and reinvention of the economic development rebound.

Luis Cuneo, Marketing Executive for IBM will lead the discussion alongside:


Glenn Llopis — Founder and CEO, Center for Hispanic Leadership, Institute for Talent Development
Andrea White — Chief Privacy Officer, Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.
Andrés Tapia — Chief Diversity Officer and Emerging Workforce Solutions Leader, Hewitt Associates

“Organizations have been forced to redefine their leadership roles, growth objectives, brand identities and relationships with their partners, clients, customers and employees,” says Llopis. “These activities have impacted the manner in which businesses think about the war for talent in the workplace and the need to renew methods to most optimally utilize and develop talent. Corporations’ approach in how they develop talent from a leadership, ethics and value and inclusion standpoint will play a key role in redefining the roadmap for the country’s financial recovery and workplace innovation.”

The webcast will address several issues that will include (but will not be limited to) the following:

As workplace cultures and employees seek trust, empowerment and transparency, what role does this play in the war for talent?
What role does the entrepreneurial spirit play in propelling greater innovation in the workplace and what are the talent development program requirements?
How does the role of diversity and generational influence change the way talent is evaluated and developed to optimally secure a workplace culture that is sustainable and profitable?

To sign-up for this free webcast, please go to: https://events.webdialogs.com/register.php?id=0af529af3f&l=en-US.

About the Center for Hispanic Leadership (CHL):

CHL is a Hispanic Talent Development Institute located in Irvine, CA. CHL’s mission is to empower the professional growth and talent development of Hispanic Employees through the use of culturally-tailored curriculum that helps accelerate the awareness and potential of their unique skill-sets and capabilities in the workplace.

On September 18, 2010, CHL will be hosting its first annual Leadership Summit, themed “Embracing Innovation through Diversity,” is designed to explore the role of Hispanic professionals and diversity at large, as well as its impact and influence on propelling innovation in the workplace. This Summit that is sponsored by IBM, Toyota, AOL, O’Melveny & Myers, State Farm and The Sanchez Ricardo Agency will take place in the Junior Achievement Finance Park Mike Curb Center for Free Enterprise at 6250 Forest Lawn Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90068. Proceeds will be donated to Junior Achievement, a volunteer driven, not-for-profit organization dedicated to educating students about entrepreneurship, financial literacy and work readiness, through experiential, hands-on programs.

Early bird registration begins at $ 395 per person by August 15, 2010. To register, and preview the summit agenda, please visit http://www.centerforhispanicleadership.com .

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Workplace Spanish Training Now Available Onsite at Companies

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Monday, December 6th, 2010



(PRWEB) May 13, 2008

Workplace Languages, LLC is now offering customized onsite “Survival” Workplace Spanish Training & Seminars (other languages offered) to management in a variety of industries. Workplace Languages, LLC also teaches a very functional workplace English to those employees with limited English proficiency. Classes & seminars are always taught on-site at the company 24/7.

What They Offer:

Participants are taught a functional language that can be used immediately.
Industry, company & job-specific materials designed for your company.
Not a “canned” product. We take the time to learn about your business.
Always on-site at your company for your convenience.
Offered 7 days a week / 24 hours a day.

Their Approach:

Zero-stress classroom environment.
They do not teach grammar.
Workplace Languages, LLC bridges the communication gap through basic Spanish phrases and commands designed to meet your company’s specific needs.

Return on Investment:

Increase cost-effectiveness, productivity & retention with improved understanding between supervisors and workers.
Develop an awareness of cultural behaviors unique to your company.
Demonstrate that your company is attempting to reach out to the Spanish-Speaking community.
Offer resources for participants to continue learning outside of this class.

Each Participant Will “Walk Away With”:

Customized materials & company-specific handouts.
Functional key phrases unique to your company.
The ability to make requests known.
Lessen frustration by closing the communication & cultural gap.

If your company needs to improve productivity, wants to retain great employees and values diversity, Workplace Languages, LLC has language solutions to improve your bottom line. Workplace Languages provides an easy, effective and immediate way to close the communication gap at your company.

If you would like more information about: written translations, ESL or survival Spanish Training or their bilingual training products, please call Ed Rosheim at 651-330-9419 or email at erosheim@WorkplaceLanguages.com.

Contact:     

Ed Rosheim, President

Workplace Languages, LLC

1702 Regatta Drive

Woodbury, MN 55125

Phone: 651.330.9419

Fax: 651.330.9426

E-mail: erosheim@WorkplaceLanguages.com

URL: www.WorkplaceLanguages.com

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The 3 Biggest Workplace Diversity Blunders, Revealed in Free Nation-Wide Teleseminar

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Wednesday, October 27th, 2010

Carmen Van Kerckhove, president of New Demographic


New York, NY (PRWEB) January 20, 2009

Many organizations are dealing with a serious case of workplace diversity fatigue and don’t even realize it, says Carmen Van Kerckhove, president of diversity education firm New Demographic.

“You probably hear groans of exasperation every time a diversity training session is announced,” says Van Kerckhove. “Your boss, who claims to be so committed to advancing workplace diversity, has somehow managed to skip every single diversity council meeting this year.”

For those organizations who know there has to be a better way to manage workplace diversity in 2009, Van Kerckhove is offering a free teleseminar titled The 3 Biggest Diversity Blunders Your Organization Could Be Making Right Now (And How to Avoid Them).

On this 60-minute call, participants will learn:

1) Why their colleagues are right to scoff at diversity training — it actually doesn’t work! Van Kerckhove will share why not, and reveal what does work instead.

2) Why executives should never proclaim that they’re colorblind and that they just don’t notice race, unless they want to offend a lot of their employees.

3) The one thing an organization must avoid at all costs, unless it wants its workplace diversity efforts to fail spectacularly.

This free call will be chock-full of specific information that will demonstrate exactly why an organization hasn’t become the leader in diversity it wants to be. Then, Van Kerckhove will provide the resources to change that around so that an organization can gain a crucial competitive edge by recruiting and retaining top diverse talent.

Limited lines are available for this call. Register to reserve your line, and receive the complete call details via email.

Carmen Van Kerckhove, president of the diversity education firm New Demographic, specializes in working with corporations to facilitate relaxed, authentic, and productive conversations about race. She has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, and has visited as a guest lecturer at Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia, among many other colleges and universities across the country.

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Benefits of Workplace Diversity

By Brian Lanegan
Monday, October 25th, 2010

As almost every market grows more global every day the number of cultural influences on companies grows daily. While embracing those changes can be a daunting task we need to realize that embracing diversity yields a great number of benefits. Every company or organization should put some effort into not only accepting of diversity but actively embrace it – their success might depend on the ability to do so. The benefits of doing so are numerous: the company is going to be a lot more capable of adapting to customer wishes, the range of service that can be provided becomes larger, more opinions are available, and almost all operations can be completed more cost efficiently.

It should be obvious: the more cultural diversity your organization owns, the easier it will be to adopt to customer wishes. Depending on the cultural background of your customer you will have to do business differently, communicate differently, process differently. If you have an Asian customer, for instance, it is greatly beneficial to have an Asian employee that can help you understand how to deal with your customer.

Skill diversity will broaden the range of services you can offer. What good does it do you to have a small army of highly qualified people, if all of them are good at the same thing? When hiring look out for people that possess skills that you might not yet have. Even if the skill’s usefulness is not apparent at first glance.

Decision making is always a very important part of any business operation, even for non-business organizations making decisions is an integral part of the list of regular tasks. The more diversity your organization possesses the more viewpoints are available. The more viewpoints available, the broader a range of possibilities will show up to chose from.

Finally, combining those benefits will greatly enhance your organization’s efficiency in executing its operations. A broad range of skills and cultural diversity will let you assign tasks to the people most suited for it. The result of this will be higher efficiency and productivity, more profit – all in all a greater return on your investment.

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