Diversity: The Online Game
Join us and test your knowledge on diversity issues again this year! The anniversary edition will be available from mid-April. You want to start right away? Then use our basic and pro quizzes
Diversity Get-Together
THE IDEA
What object do you associate with diversity? Use it as a practical example to talk about diversity! We associate memories of people, places and situations with our objects. Whether it's a rainbow flag or a certain dish - many things also stimulate thoughts about diversity aspects. As a team, share personal stories and impressions about diversity based on the selected objects. This exercise is also an excellent icebreaker in meetings.
HOW IT WORKS
Invite your colleagues to choose an item that they associate with diversity and bring it to a get together, picnic or lunch. Each person presents his or her object. Use the personal thoughts to start a conversation about diversity.
Doing Diversity: The Online Learning Session
What is diversity? What are the diversity dimensions and what do they mean? What role does diversity play in the world of work? Get answers to all these questions and more in our Doing Diversity. Our entertaining 60-minute online learning session contains various media and task formats that can be worked on without prior knowledge and individually or in teams. Are you curious and would like to know more? Then take a look at our Doing Diversity one-pager.
"Stand up for DIVERSITY": How to debunk slogans against diversity
THE IDEA
"You can't be considerate of everything and everyone!"
We've probably all heard such sayings about diversity at one time or another. How would you like to have quick-witted arguments ready in such situations. This is where our Stand up for DIVERSITY card set comes in!
With Stand up for DIVERSITY you can practice your repartee with your colleagues - for more self-confidence and for more diversity in the workplace. For this purpose, we have compiled 20 nonsense sayings about diversity as printable info cards and provided them with suitable counter-arguments. This way you can convince everyone of the success of diverse teams and promote successful diversity management.
HOW IT WORKS
You can simply download the card set, print it out and assemble it following the instructions. Then exchange ideas with your colleagues in a playful way by starting with an open question and answer session: Who has come across which sayings before? Who has perhaps had individual sayings as thoughts themselves? Afterwards, in the group or in smaller individual groups, you can deal more intensively with the most frequently mentioned sayings and especially the counter-arguments to them and discuss them.
Have heard other sayings in the past? Use the blank cards and find a good answer in the team. After a round of Stand up for DIVERSITYyou will be equipped to stand up to critical voices.
The playing cards are currently available in German language only.
Lunch & Learn and Chat Roulette
THE IDEA
Get to know your colleagues and their perspectives on diversity issues over lunch. Offer a thought-provoking lunch on diversity and diversity management served as a "fast food snack". With keynote speeches or a podcast on the individual diversity dimensions, on exciting topics such as unconscious bias, on lifelong learning, allyship or on gender-equitable language, you can give your colleagues important impulses. At the Chat Roulette afterwards, you can exchange your newly acquired knowledge over a coffee and get to know each other better. Of course, this is also possible offline.
HOW IT WORKS
Ask your staff if anyone would like to share a personal experience on a diversity topic, invite a speaker for the Lunch & Learn or prepare a topic of your choice, or choose a podcast to listen to together over lunch. Prepare a short thought-provoking or questions for the chat roulette.
Action: American Express
Diversity Walk'n'Roll
THE IDEA
Learning about diversity on an ongoing basis? Get some impulses on diversity topics on your ears: Use our podcast recommendations and start to discuss diversity in your organisation!
HOW IT WORKS
On a walk, teams of two listen to a diversity podcast and exchange ideas. Check out our podcast recomendations (German only). Tip: You can also organise a larger group discussion with a quiz about a selected podcast afterwards.
Action: BRICKMAKERS GmbH
Privilege Walk
THE IDEA
How privileged am I? For yourself, this is sometimes not so easy to answer. With the Privilege Walk, you approach the topic of privilege - on site or digitally.
The Privilege Walk is a popular diversity training exercise. With this group exercise, participants are asked to look at their own privileges. Together they find out which factors promote privilege - all without prior knowledge.
For inspiration, we recommend this video (original language: English; automatically generated German subtitles can be selected).
For both the digital and on-site versions, we have created
different materials (german only) that you can use to carry out the Privilege Walk.
HOW IT WORKS
- On site:
Print out our template in the appropriate size and have sticky dots to hand. Find a quiet place where the Privilege Walk will take place. All participants start at the beginning of the lines or boxes. Now the statements come into play. All persons to whom the statement applies symbolically take a step forward. When all statements have been dealt with, the participants stick their sticky dot in the corresponding box.
If you want to do the Privilege Walk in your organisation, we recommend that participants get space and time to answer the questions independently and voluntarily, as the questions are very personal and concern sensitive data. Each team member could also complete the privilege walk on their own and then discuss the result with all participants at the end.
- Digital:
The gameplay is the same as the analogue version. Instead of a floor with chalk or a poster, the participants move on a digital "playing field" with the help of a digital tool of your choice. Simply load our template into your Miro board, padlet or whiteboard.
- Reflection:
The question: Where will everyone end up? The further forward a person ends up, the more privileged they are. Afterwards, the group talks about the experience of the privilege walk: Did the participants expect their final position or was it a surprise for them? How did it feel to walk forward? What do you take with you for the future?
Scavanger Hunt
THE IDEA
With a scavenger hunt, you and your colleagues can
approach the topic of diversity step by step - literally.
HOW IT WORKS
The scavenger hunt consists of different stations, each of which deals with different aspects of diversity. How many stations is up to you. You can set up and plan them according to your ideas and needs. It can be a short one-hour tour through the offices or a day trip through the city with stops at thematically appropriate places - for example at the city hall or at stumbling blocks. Of course, the scavenger hunt can also take place digitally. One possible tool for this is Microsoft Forms.
The length of the scavenger hunt and the number and type of stations are entirely up to you. Let our suggestions inspire you:
- Diversity dimensions: Get to know the diversity dimensions and use our entertaining videos. Click here for the videos: Diversity Dimensions Part 1 and Diversity Dimensions Part 2.
- Diversity Walk'n'Roll: listen together to a podcast on the topic of diversity dimensions and discuss what you have heard afterwards.
- The Privilege Walk: deal with your own privileges.
- Stand up for Diversity: train your repartee against nonsense slogans about diversity.
- Diversity Quiz: Test your knowledge. Who is already your diversity expert?
- Doing Diversity - The online learning session: Start your scavenger hunt with an introductory workshop on diversity in the workplace with our online learning session.
Background information, facts and figures from the field of diversity can be found in our Factbook and factsheet.
If you want to make your scavenger hunt a little more playful, turn it into a small competition. There are points to be won per station and at the end you hand out participation certificates and choose a winning team.
