How to Interact With People

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Communicating With Senior Leaders

• How to Interact With People
• National Guard Bureau EO/EEO Training Conf

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Communicating With Senior Leaders
AGENDA

• DX Organization 5-10 min
• MTT Purpose / Mission 5 min
• Day 1 2 Objectives 5 min
• MTT Methodology 15 min
• Requesting an MTT 5 min
• Communicating With Senior Leaders
• How To Interact With People
• (Model Socialization Block) 40 min

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• Secretary of Defense
• Donald Rumsfeld
• Under Secretary of Defense for
• Personnel and Readiness
• Dr. David S. Chu
• Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for
  Personnel and Readiness
• Charles S. Abell

Acting Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for
Equal Opportunity John M. Molino Commandant,
Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute
CAPT R.D.Watts, USN
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Communicating With Senior Leaders

• Enhance senior leader awareness of key equal
  opportunity/human relations concepts and their
  impact on cohesion, mission, and readiness.

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Communicating With Senior Leaders

• Day 1 Objectives
• Explore socialization concepts
• Explore the effects of communication upon the
  organization
• Explore the ISMs
• Explore the dynamics of power and their impact

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Communicating With Senior Leaders

• Day 2 Objectives
• Explore institutional discrimination concepts
• Explore the system and victim focused approaches
  to problem solving
• Explore diversity concepts and the distinctions
  between them, equal opportunity, and affirmative
  action
• Explore strategies to improve your organizations
  human relations climate

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MethodologyHow to Interact With People

• Adult Learning Model
• Tell me - Ill Probably forget Show me -
  Ill remember Involve me - Ill understand
• Contract Participate -Take risk, be candid,
  share personal experiences (non-attribution
  environment)
• Foster information exchange
• Increase awareness and understanding of self
  and others
• Explore new behaviors and skills

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Communicating With Senior Leaders

• MTT User Feedback
• 26,927 personnel trained 1994-2002
• Average of 3,300 personnel per year
• Since January 2000, seminar participant feedback
  ratings have averaged 4.5 overall- with 5.0 as
  the highest rating.

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Communicating With Senior Leaders

• Resourcing
• Requesting Organizations Pay Team Travel Per
  Diem
• No Course Fees
• Organization Prints Seminar Handbook
• 3 x DEOMI MTT Trainers/Facilitators Per Team
• MTTs Scheduled First Come, First Served
• Call LTC Knowles DSN 854-5979, COM (321)
  494-5979, Richard.Knowles_at_patrick.af.mil

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SOURCE AF Times 21 Aug 2000

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Communicating With Senior Leaders
Introductions What is your name? Where were you
born? Where were you living at age ten? Who was
President when you turned 18? If the Treasury
Department were to design a new 200 Bill, what
image would you place on the new bill and why?
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Socialization How to Interact With People
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The Capsule

• An accountant of Hispanic descent
• The accountants pregnant wife who has used
  cocaine
• A topless dancer who smokes pot
• A professional basketball player
• An intelligent female movie star
• A militant African-American medical student
• A famous Jewish novelist
• A Pharmacologist
• A 70 year-old Priest
• An armed policeman
• A feminist student of Chinese descent
• A 50-year old Kansas wheat farmer

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NOTE PAGES ONLY THE CAPSULE
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How to Interact With People
Objective Explore how our personal development
influences our interactions and the impact upon
the organization.
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How to Interact With People Perceptual Filters
S-E-A
Sex
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How to Interact With People Psycho-Social
Influences
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How to Interact With People Gender Typing
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How to Interact With People Gender Typing
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Socialization Continuum
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How to Interact With PeopleFood for
Thought...
What events, institutions, and individuals
influenced your individual values?
How might those values effect your decision
making processes today?
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How to Interact With People Methodology

• Intra-personal
• Inter-personal
• Organizational Approach
• Why

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How to Interact With People Methodology

• Other approaches guided discussions,
  lecturettes, exercises, etc.
• Devote 2/3 (Exercises, Group Discussion)
• Lesson Presentation 1/3 (Video, PowerPoint)