KnowMeNow offers many dynamic eLearning opportunities to enrich your understanding of identity, diversity and multicultural issues. Please select from one of the following courses to preview a sample from our library of offerings.

• Introduction to KnowMeNow
  

  Introduction to KnowMeNow provides users with an overview of the basic goals and objectives for utilizing KnowMeNow’s website.

  Concepts included in this course are:
  • KnowMeNow utilizes individual “Work Profiles” and sharing experiences
  • Competency training – what competencies can be gained by using KnowMeNow
  • Utilizing the Dashboard Community and Groups
  • 10 Dimensions of Identity – benefits and effects
  • Identity Dynamics and KnowMeNow Circles
  • Personal identity focus
  • Customer Profiles
  
  KnowMeNow offers this eLearning course to provide basic training and education on KnowMeNow and the 10 dimensions of identity. Users should take this course to be better prepared to use KnowMeNow effectively. The KnowMeNow website, will help you will gain the skills you need to build bridges, instead of barriers, with people you encounter in all kinds of day to day situations.

• Race Competency
  

  Becoming culturally competent is a dynamic process that requires cultural knowledge and skill regardless of your organizational level or function.  In this course, you will learn to recognize various definitions of the word “race”, how racial issues have evolved over time, identify considerations for racial discrimination in the workplace, review your own perspectives on race, and demonstrate sensitivity to racial issues in the workplace.

• Religion Competency
  

  Are you culturally competent regarding religion?  Becoming culturally competent regarding religion means understanding the importance of religion and spirituality for individuals and the larger society.  In this course, you will learn to recognize various interpretations of the term “religion”, how religious beliefs have affected cultures over time, identify legal and ethical considerations for religious discrimination in the workplace, review your own perspectives on religion, and demonstrate sensitivity to religious issues in the workplace.

• Managers and the Law Preview
  

  Questions about wrongful discharge? Do you understand Equal Opportunity Employment and the law? How do you protect your company from sexual harassment charges? These and many other helpful topics are covered in Managers and the Law.

• Getting Started Preview
  

  My Identity is unlike any other cultural training currently available.  It is a journey of discovery that illustrates who you truly are and this new insight allows you to create Identity Maps to enhance your understanding of the attitudes, beliefs, and drivers that motivate your actions.  My Identity provides you with increased awareness and provides new tools to help you build strong relationships with colleagues, customers, clients, and community members in a rapidly changing world.

  As you go through My Identity, you will gain the skills you need to build bridges, instead of barriers, with people you encounter in all kinds of situations every day.

• Discovering My History Preview
  

  We are all products of our time and the history that accompanies it.  Our world includes people of all shapes, sizes, colors, and backgrounds. When you were young, you heard others express opinions about demographic affiliations and internalized those messages.  Demographic affiliations are important because each one forms a piece of our identity.  In this lesson, you will reflect on those messages you heard growing up and gauge the impact they had on you, measuring how our past can impact our identity.

• Prioritizing My Dimensions Preview
  

  Our identities are a lot more complicated than you might think.  In fact, an identity is made up of many different dimensions that work together to make us who we are.  The importance you place on each dimension strongly influences how you will respond to a given conflict or situation.  Recognizing how different dimensions affect you will help you understand some of your own conflicts.  When you know why you are reacting the way you are, it’s easier to work toward the right resolution.  In this lesson, you will rank your 10 Dimensions of Identity to determine their importance to you and gain insight into your reactions and responses to others who might have different perspectives and rankings.

• Mapping My Dimensions Preview
  

  Now that you have learned about the 10 Dimensions of Identity, you are ready to dig deeper by completing the self-assessments that rank the factors making up each dimension.  Each dimension is the sum total of different parts and you may have many different core values or a variety of social roles.  The self assessments will help you identify your own specific core values and the specific social roles you take on and how important each of these is to your sense of identity.  The Self-Assessments and Coaching slide show will provide you with an overview on how to complete the self-assessments, review the results, and benefit from the coaching.

• Exploring My Perspectives Preview
  

  Our Identities are like a window we look through to see the world.  This lesson will introduce you to four frameworks that will help you discover how your own experiences construct your window on the world and your view of others. Discovering four frameworks - My Lenses, My Identity Zones, My Professional Fit, and my Micro Triggers – will expand your understanding of identity and how much depth we all have to offer.

• Building My Portrait Preview
  

  My Identity has a feature that allows you to answer a series of short questions about yourself.  The results come together as an online self portrait.  Building and sharing personal Portraits with coworkers is an important activity to build working relationships to the next level.  Sharing Portraits will help others to identify personal traits about you which will increase your mutual understanding and effectiveness.  You will learn how to view others Portraits to look for commonalities and differences and how each of these can form the basis for insights and conversations taking working relationships to the next level.

• Mapping My Team Preview
  

  Understanding your own identity only completes half the picture. The other half belongs to those you interact with, either one-on-one or collectively. This lesson will help you understand how to compare your own Identity Maps with that of your Team.  Comparing Identity Maps will help you spot areas where you might not be in complete synch with your team – which can lead to disagreement or misunderstandings. By comparing your top priorities with an aggregate of your team, you will find areas that are likely to produce synergy and find a cooperative approach to working together.  Areas where you differ may lead to conflict.  By the end of this course you will understand how to work with synergies and conflicts within a team in order to function more cooperatively.

• Mapping My Customer Preview
  

  Customers have identities too and it’s important to understand where they are coming from to gain a better perspective on their goals. Your customer represents a whole corporate identity – which you also need to understand if you want to work effectively with them. In this step of the journey, you will learn how to create Identity Maps of your customers and stakeholders and compare them to yours.

• My Self-Assessments
  

  This part of the Identity Mapping track will allow you to rate the kinds of messages your family, friends, and community sent you about people who were different from you in each of the demographic affiliations. You will prioritize the Dimensions of your Identity, map how the different roles and levels people can take on to your identity, build and share your Portrait, compare your priorities with an aggregate of your team and your customers. 

• Courseware Demonstration
  

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Multimedia is an integral component of knowmenow ELearning and is embedded throughout all of our courses. Please select a sample video to preview.

• Listen to a montage of global experts talk about identity from multiple perspectives
• Watch a workplace scenario explode onto conflict
• Listen to Knowmenow Founder Mark Williams coach members on our Comfort Zone
• Listen to Knowmenow Founder Mark Williams coach members on Privilege
• Watch Tanya Future Works Institute consultant talk about physical appearance
• Listen to Rob talk about growing up as a Quaker
• Listen to Caroline talk about growing up white and the messages she heard about race