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Secrets of Becoming a Successful Diversity
Expert
Are
Online Courses Effective?
The Need for Courses With Information You
Can Use Immediately
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Programs
Training
Programs Overview
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Secrets
of Becoming a Successful Diversity Expert
The key to becoming a diversity expert is to have an arsenal
of tools available for managing the landmines of the profession,
and the ability to access the tools at will. This will enable you to
recognize what an organization or individual needs, and command
attention in the delivery of services. Unfortunately, these competencies
are not taught in most programs due to limited time and limited
understanding of competency development.
Many diversity
professionals burn out from fighting uphill
battles and the resistance to their work. Those who get the most
out the profession have learned that reframing the work and developing
skills that get the attention of those in authority can make a
huge difference. You can get in on what they have discovered with
DTUI courses.
Ideally, you will have developed your expertise as a diversity professional
by attending a fulltime program. Given the scarcity of degree
programs, you will likely find yourself traveling here and there
to a course at a local university or attending a weekend seminar
at an institute. If possible, you can move to another city to
commit to a fulltime post-graduate degree program. If you work
for an organization in which developing diversity expertise will
increase your opportunities for a promotion, then leaving your
organization is an unlikely option. Those of you who are already
serving as an in-house diversity expert are likely in need of
continuous education to help you do your job
more effectively. Even managers, healthcare professional, educator,
police officers, human resource professionals, and others prefer
and need accessible continuous learning resources.
The working
professional’s fast-moving, ever-changing organization makes
it difficult to get away from the desk sufficiently long enough
to receive proper training. Even going to that intensive training
session in another city will take you away from your family and
social life, which is already strained by competition with work
life. DTUI’s online format is ideal for the growing group
of people who seek distance learning programs to develop their
competency in a 365-day a year, 24-hour a day, 7-day week format.
Are
Online Courses Effective?
Online universities are springing up everywhere to offer the alternative
educational resources needed for on-the-job continuous learning.
Is on-line training effective? The answer is unequivocally yes
based on the evidence. People, in fact, learn more. The reason
is that the distance learning format places more responsibility
for learning on individual students compared to the typical classroom
course. Highly motivated people who work well independently thrive
with online classes.
Recent innovations
offer technology that heightens the interactive experience of
those in online classes. The Chat-Line is one feature, but you
have to be able to type really fast to get the most out of it.
Professors often give group assignments that require email, and
sometimes telephone, contact among student teams to complete the
work. These help students feel connected to other students even
beyond that experienced in many classrooms. However, the professor
remains at a distance. Ideally, you want a professor who you can
hear lecture, ask questions, and hear other students’ comments
about the lecture and respond to their thoughts. DTUI offers professors
with credentials from respectable universities, such as University
of California, University of Oklahoma, University of Oregon, and
University, who are proficient in online course delivery. Our
e-learning support specialist assists faculty in maximizing the
use of the online technology for learning purposes.
The
Need for Courses With Information You Can Use Immediately
Many university courses are designed to offer theoretical work
with little attention to applying what is taught. Seldom is a
course designed with your everyday workplace needs taken into
consideration. Learning to be a diversity professional requires
hands-on experience. DTUI is proud to boast that most of its students
state that they learn things that they can immediately use in
their organization and personal life. In fact, within the first
few weeks of instruction our students start to feel and be looked
upon as experts due to the competencies they acquire.
Is it possible
to learn diversity expertise on-line? This is great question.
Diversity expertise requires learning ways of thinking and developing
facilitation skills that only face-to-face, hands-on methods have
been known to develop. However, in both face-to-face and distance
learning formats, the key is a good command of how to teach. Clearly
the use of technology is unique in the teaching methods required.
Our e-learning staff, under the expert guidance of DTUI President
Billy Vaughn, PhD, utilizes state-of-the-art teaching strategies
to offer students a rewarding learning experience that offers
real-world competencies. We have been trained by reputable organizations,
such as the College Board, the Western Association of Schools
& Colleges, and Syllabus, in effective online class delivery.
We continue to learn more by the day. In addition, we are contributing
to the online course delivery field by developing innovative strategies
for competency training in the work that we do.
The secrets
to being a cultural competency expert are at your fingertips.
Whether you desire to become a diversity trainer, you are an experienced
trainer, or you want to be a diversity resource person in your
organization, you need the courses DTUI offers. It doesn't matter
if you have never conducted a training, you need more experience,
or you are a seasoned trainer, the information you learn in the
courses is more than you can imagine receiving even from a classroom
course.
You'll save
time and money, avoid the mistakes most experts have made, and
learn secrets many wish they knew. Here are a few things covered
in the DTUI curricular that will put confidence in your heart,
blossom your expertise, and make you a valuable asset.
If you are
serious about becoming a diversity expert, you cannot afford to
miss out on DTUI's training program. Here is what each DTUI course
offers:
- An on-line
manual for each course
- You will
work alone and in small teams (at a distance) on homework problems
- You don't
have to travel
- You complete
all course work quickly
- Courses
are small. We will keep each course to 15 people .
- You will
receive coaching from faculty to address everyday work-related
issues concerning diversity
- You can
take a single course, or sign up for a certificate program or
masters degree program.
- On-line,
web-based courses that you can attend from wherever you have
access to the internet from home, office, mobile phone, your
hotel room, etc.).
Training
Programs Overview
DTUI
now offers two training programs at this time: Diversity Trainer
Certificate Program (DTC) & Master's Degree in Culture and
Organizational Behavior (COB)
CLICK HERE to learn more about the program, seiminar date schedules, past clients, and read testimonials. Don't forget to ask about our benchmark study of how our program performs in comparison to the competition.
