Part 4: Strategic Action Plan for Dealing with a Team Diversity Issue in Your Organization (4 pages – 50 pts)
How will you implement your goals? Describe the strategic mix of activities you intend to implement to achieve your goals. What actions will impact changes in behavior related to a diversity issue? Summarize the benefits this action plan will bring to your organization.
Who will take action? What will they do?
What small steps do you intend to take to get started and to build momentum on your team?
How will you prevent yourself/team members from relapsing into old diversity unfriendly habits or behaviors?
What is the time line for achieving each goal?
What resources will be required?
What obstacles might prevent you realizing each goal?
How do you intend to deal with them?
You should be able to identify strategies (a mix of actions) to maximize the benefits provided by diversity in teams. The strategies ideally should be complex and provide multiple alternatives that balance strengths and weaknesses that the various actions would present.
Part 5: Monitoring Your Action Plan (1 page – 20 pts)
For each goal indicate observable changes in behavior that would indicate progress toward your goal. What do you see as small milestones or wins toward your goal?
How will you measure success?
How will you keep the improvement going?
How will you reward yourself for forwarding progress- “approximations” to your goal destination?
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