Studies show that more than 90 percent of the individuals entering the workforce will be minorities and women by the year 2010. This presents a major challenge to employers in the United States.  By having diversity training program in place organizations set themselves apart from its competition. Having a diverse workforce and training program in place allows everyone in an organization to appreciate and embrace diversity. This also makes the company more effective and can decrease workplace conflicts.

Alliance Financial is pleased to announce Global Beads ®  

Global Beads is an interactive game about diversity. The concepts of this life changing game explores the ways in which factors such as race, gender, age, and religion play role in socialization, and the impact is has with our interactions with others.

What makes Global Beads^® so powerful is that participants learn from their own lives and experiences. Through the use of colored beads individuals will learn how they personally view others based on their race, gender, and religion. Participants are asked a series of questions based on their life experiences and use colored beads to reference the different segments of the population based on various differences. Through debriefing discussion then helps participants to make a conscious effort to create larger zones of familiarity, comfort, and trust.

Global Beads^® Learning Outcomes

• Create a visual representation of socialization
• Understand how individual socialization affects interactions
• Learn how to make deliberate attempts to building healthy relationships with different groups