Cultural Awarenewss Training for Organizations

Helping to Create & Support a Culturally Aware Workplace

Embracing individual differences is essential to creating a highly functional and thriving organization. Everyone’s unique background contributes valuable talent, enhancing overall success. While teams may gravitate toward similarities for convenience, doing so can limit creativity, innovation, and productivity.

The Colorado Center for Nursing Excellence offers programs designed to help organizations recognize bias, celebrate differences, and foster a rewarding work environment for all. Our programs guide participants through a journey of personal and professional intercultural awareness, equipping them with the skills necessary to build a supportive and dynamic workforce.

If you are interested in any of the programs listed below, please reach out to amanda@coloradonursingcenter.org for more information. We are happy to meet with you to discuss your specific organizational needs and develop a customized program that works for you.

Available Training Programs

Bias Buster I

This 2-hour interactive workshop is designed to increase awareness of bias and to explore how conscious and unconscious bias impacts communication and decision-making when we interact with individuals and groups that are different from us. The program includes:

Implicit Association Test Prework
Bias Buster Action Planning Support

Bias Buster II

This workshop builds on Bias Busters I to allow participants to further explore the effects of bias in everyday situations and determine alternative behaviors that stop bias in its tracks. This is a 2-hour skill building learning experience takes participants on a journey designed to develop skills that will transform behavior and systems of bias. The program includes:

A Skill Building Practicum
Problem Based Learning Community Group

Becoming Culturally Inclusive

Becoming Culturally Inclusive takes the learners on a journey of self-awareness and reflection as they assess intercultural competence, as an individual and a group, using the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI)®.

This program includes:

Intercultural Development Inventory – IDI®- registration and online self evaluation.
A 4-hour group workshop/coaching
Inclusive Coaching Circle

Assessment Tools

Intercultural Development Inventory

The IDI is a tool used to assess intercultural competence and provides guided development along the Intercultural Development Continuum. The Center has trained Qualified Administrators who administer, and coach individuals, teams and organizations on effectives strategies to develop an intercultural mindset.

Emotional Intelligence / Emotional Quotient Inventory

The Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i 2.0) is considered one of the most rigorous tools to assess emotional intelligence and frequently used in research due to its level of validity and reliability across cultures and organizations. The inventory measures an individual’s emotional intelligence within five sub-scales of self-perception, self-expression, interpersonal, decision-making, and stress management with 15 different competencies.

To learn more about these programs and how we can can meet your organizations specific needs please contact:

Amanda Quintana: Amanda@ColoradoNursingCenter.org