Diversity Training

Diversity Training helps companies integrate teams made up of men and women from different cultures. Cross cultural people skills transform competent managers into excellent leaders.

Companies that train their experienced managers, as well as new recruits, can quickly create a common language that brings people together in highly motivated teams. As companies expand across borders and cultures, business leaders benefit from a global perspective and from uniting a wide variety of people into a unified work force.

Failure to integrate people across gender, colour, and culture creates endless misunderstandings and costly breakdowns. Even a few broken lines of communication can lead to loss of profits and bring damage to the reputation of an otherwise excellent company. Hidden resentments spark legal quandaries and subtle acts of sabotage that can easily catch the attention of the media and of regulatory agencies.

There are many diversity training services springing up--maybe too many. So making the right choice for your business is essential. Sage Innovations has over thirty years of experience in the US and the EU with companies of all sizes, from 80 to 80.000 employees. Our interventions have saved billions of dollars in costly breakdowns, lawsuits, and public relations damage caused by bad press.

Lessons from history demonstrate the cost of failure. The Daimler-Chrysler merger threw mostly white German male engineers into the same water with many black American female managers. The resulting communication breakdowns contributed to a public fiasco and the loss of untold financial value.

The AOL merger with Time Warner hit the same wall by mixing traditional New York broadcast executives with Silicon Valley nerds. The culture clash created repercussions that reverberated through the market destroying the fortunes of countless investors.

But when two great American power companies merged, the leadership sensed the danger of mixing roughnecks (Texas oil men) with a business made up of Carolina gentlemen. The merger also faced a class-action lawsuit from 80 disgruntled women managers. So they hired trainers from Sage Innovations to build a common language to create a win-win scenario for all. Two months later the lawsuits disappeared and the two companies merged seamlessly.