K. Iwata Associates, Inc. offers customized consulting services in a wide array of strategic diversity management.



Leadership Commitment and Strategic Planning
• Creation of Conceptual Framework
   + Business rationales for strategic diversity
   + Organizational culture - inhibitor or enhancer?
   + Process vs. program
   + Roles and responsibilities of leaders
   + Fit to achieve business objectives

• Development of a Strategic Diversity Process Plan
• Identification and Design of Infrastructure Support and Resources
• Coaching for Those Who Must Champion the Process
   + Self-assessment
   + Advocacy roles
   + Formal and informal coaching

• Building Skills and Competencies for Leaders



Infrastructure Development
• Identification of Appropriate Staff Structures and Procedures
• Executive Steering Committee
• Diversity Councils
• Site Task Forces
• Assessment Teams
• Action Planning Teams
• Orientation Sessions
• Team Building Sessions
• Project Management Skills Training



Assessment
• Tailored Cultural Scans
• Methodology Framework
   + Review of existing data
   + Interviews
   + Culture scan workshop
   + Surveys, as needed
   + Data collapse
   + Root analysis

• Findings Report
   + Key environment (business challenges)
   + Current prevalent behaviors/practices and values
   + Roots (basic beliefs or assumptions) that drive the organization
   + Impact on organizational diversity objectives

• Gap Analysis
• Strengths
• Weaknesses
• Recommendations
• Action Plan
   + Identification of target action areas
   + Recommendations for improvement
   + Establishment of base line measures
   + Selection of an index of progress measures



Strategic Diversity Education and Competency Building
• Grounding Sessions to Establish Strategic Diversity Concepts
   + Definition
   + Components (representation, understanding/valuing differences
       and strategic diversity)
   + Organizational business rationale
   + Strategic fit
   + Requirements
   + What the organization is doing

• Personal Strategic Diversity Competencies
   + Inclusionary awareness/sensitivity/behavior
   + Developing talent
   + Communicating across various dimensions of diversity
   + Cultural awareness/sensitivity

• The Effective Diversity Respondent (Source: R. Thomas
   Consulting and Training)
   + Six characteristics of diversity maturity
   + Managing diversity tensions

  
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