The College of Business believes that developing cultural competence is necessary for every business professional to actively participate in our global society. Through workshops, programs, and outreach efforts, we aim to promote a work and study environment that is welcoming to people of all cultural backgrounds. The Social Justice Workshop Series is one means by which we accomplish this goal. These one-to-two hour interactive workshops engage students, faculty and staff members in various social justice issues designed to ignite discussion and broaden participants’ perspectives.

Fall 2011 schedule

Essential Communication Skills for Leaders
Date: Thursday, October 20, 2011
Time: 4:00-6:00pm
Location: Rockwell 103
Presenter: Micki McMillan, CEO and Founding Partner of Blue Mesa Group

The goal of this session is to improve leaders’ effectiveness by helping them to develop awareness of how their thoughts impact communications, and to learn a tool for productive communication.
During this interactive workshops, participants will:

• Examine personal mental models
• Study the Ladder of Inference and relate it to individual’s thinking skills
• Practice internal, focused and generative listening
• Advocate a point of view that enables the others to understand

We offer 2-3 workshops a semester that help raise awareness and educate participants on the issues of social justice and diversity. These interactive sessions are open to College of Business students, faculty and staff to aid in learning the skills needed to live and work in our ever changing global community.

Previous sessions have covered topics such as gender; privilege; racism, classism, emotional intelligence in a diverse world; diversity and corporate decision making.

View information on previous Social Justice Workshops in the Archive!