Originating with the National Training Labs and Tavistock Institute in the late 1940s,
sensitivity training or T-Groups entered the business arena in the 1960s where it became a popular technique for lowering barriers between managers and employees to promote more open communication.
Sensitivity training has nothing to do with operational effectiveness.
The economic utility of etiquette is declared up-front in some contemporary etiquette guides, which, like the
sensitivity training videos, frankly posit that failure to master the new etiquette will hurt business.
Sensitivity Training was timed to coincide with Travelers With Disabilities Awareness Week (November 29-December 5).
In addition, our maintenance team is trained in first aid and CPR, as well as
sensitivity training, the same training we give our caregivers.
Don't always assume that having
sensitivity training is sufficient.
It contrasts OD with
sensitivity training and outlines contexts where OD fits or doesn't fit.
The flapdoodle auditing team might come to a major newspaper and find that the company had been requiring its senior managers to attend
sensitivity training sessions where senior editors had to crawl on the floor and wear signs around their necks so they'd know what it felt like to be the object of racial or sex discrimination.
Sensitivity training workshops strive to assist employers in developing more positive attitudes regarding the hiring of people with disabilities.
This process includes reevaluating facility accessibility and encouraging staff
sensitivity training.
The checklist that follows wil help you evaluate whether the attitudes of your staff encourage the return visits of disabled shoppers or whether some
sensitivity training is needed.
Dozens of local caregivers had the opportunity to "walk in the shoes of an older adult" recently, thanks to senior
sensitivity training hosted by SCAN Health Plan and Catholic Charities of Stockton.
