Build a Culturally Competent Organization--Part One

This course- Acquiring Knowledge on Belonging and Cultural Competence- is a game changer. This is the first course in a five-part curriculum that is designed to walk students through building a culturally competent organization. The major goals of the courses within this curriculum are to equip businesses, schools, places of worship, leaders, employees, and students of cultural competence (you!) with the foundational knowledge, skills, and frameworks necessary to structure your work around cultural competence. World renowned author and speaker Simon Sinek formulated what he termed the “Golden Circles”. The Golden Circles illustration is made up of three concentric circles. The innermost circle is the “why” followed by “how” and then the “what”. Sinek describes that each organization has to have a “why”, which is their purpose, cause or belief. This course “Acquiring Knowledge on Belonging and Cultural Competence” will give you the knowledge to establish your organization’s “why” around the work of cultural competence. After taking this course, students should understand the psychology and neuroscience of belonging, acknowledge the intersection of belonging and cultural competence, understand culture and the multiple layers of culture within an individual and organization, articulate the five dimensions of culture that ground our perceptions of culture, define and understand cultural competence and identify essential tools for implementing cultural competence.