Feliz Consulting

  Corporate training is an essential part of developing key expertise and competences in our employees and in any business. As we learn more about the importance of inclusivity and diversity, how can we incorporate these important ideas of inclusivity at work into our corporate training plans, actions and company culture? One of the main challenges of embracing inclusivity in training is cultural barriers, and language can be one of these key barriers. Employees from different cultures and backgrounds may better comprehend and absorb training content in their mother tongue, but it can become tricky and expensive for businesses to run stand alone training programs in different languages to cater to everyone. Businesses then have to hire different trainers that speak fluent languages and understand different cultures well. The language barrier in training may create several issues and these are some of them for your consideration: 1. Discrepancy in content understanding – Separate ...

In order to answer this question, we must first understand what unconscious bias is, then look at the content and format of such unconscious bias training to see the possible impact. It is crucial to look at how unconscious and conscious biases, diversity and inclusion programs affect the workplace.  Can they help embrace diversity and promote true inclusion?! If done well, we believe they can. What is Unconscious Bias? As the words suggest, unconscious bias refers to a bias that we are unaware of, which happens outside of our control. It is a bias that happens automatically and is triggered by our brain making quick judgments and assessments of people and situations, based on our background, including our cultural environment, our values, and personal experiences. When we hear the words “Unconscious Bias,” many people still tend to have a negative reaction and think of it as something bad that “others have” but “not me”. However, it is important to understand the con...