Cornell University
Tier2-2: Employee Training Opportunities

Cornell offers programs to develop cultural competence in both supervisors and employees. The Supervisory Training Program for Academic Staff has a module dedicated specifically to cultural appreciation and understanding. (www.hr.cornell.edu/life/career/supervisory_training_academic.html).

Cornell Interactive Theatre Ensemble (CITE)offers programs which create safety around highly charged workplace issues, facilitating honest dialogue, self awareness and organizational learning on four levels: personal, interpersonal, group and institutional/community.

CITE has the unique ability to take concepts of diversity and inclusion and make them real and personal for participant groups. Interactive theatre and facilitated dialogue from multiple points of view create a climate for participants that builds inclusion, fosters collaboration and gives participants knowledge and tools to take back to their own work environments. Many Cornell employees and work groups have benefitted from attending this training (http://www.hr.cornell.edu/life/career/cite.html).

Cornell has established Employee Skills for Success as well as Leadership Skills for Success. Diversity & Inclusion are included in both sets of skills for success. These skill sets are at the corner stone of Cornell's performance management process as well as integrated into the design of programs available to all Cornell employees. In particular, the employee program Turning Point and the Leading Cornell Program, includes these skills for success in their curriculum. (http://www.hr.cornell.edu/life/career/leadership_s4s.pdf)(http://www.hr.cornell.edu/life/career/turning_point.html)