About Dr. Nelva Lee
Dr. Nelva Lee is the Founder and CEO of MiTio Inc. a Medical and Court Interpreting and Translating Training Institute. MiTio Inc. trains and employs Interpreters and Translators directly to healthcare/legal organizations in need of its services. Dr. Lee was a Subject Matter Expert in the creation of the CMI exam for the NBCMI and was respectively its first Chair.
Dr. Lee has over 20 years of experience in healthcare and over 10 years in academia as an adjunct professor. She is a Governor Kemp appointed board member to the Department of Community Health. She is Chairman of the board of the Henry County Pregnancy Resource Center (Bridge Wellness South), and a former Republican candidate for State Senate in District 17. Dr. Lee has authored several books including: “The Good Christian Wife” and “Be the Super Hero of Your Story.”
Dr. Lee volunteers at TPC, her local church, and has been married to her best friend Donnie for over 20 years, together they have 3 children.
Dr. Nelva Lee's Talks
Personal Responsibility when Engaging with Your Diverse Workforce
My goal is to help organizations create a culture of personal responsibility when engaging with your diverse workforce, so that you can improve your employee communication and retention rates, and we are going to do this with my signature RETAIN Process.
Talk Takeaways:
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Setting Measurable Diversity Retention Goals
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Improving Communication with Diverse Employees
Setting Measurable Diversity Retention Goals
The challenge for most organizations isn’t in hiring diverse individuals, it’s in keeping them, retaining them. Once you have hired your diverse staff, the problems you then face is in your turnover rates of your diverse workers
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If you are simply hitting diversity metrics for hiring, but not looking at promoting them from within, you are conveying by this omission that you just want to appear to care about diversity
Improving Communication with Diverse Employees
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Does your team come from a high context or low context culture
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Does your team hail from a hierarchical or egalitarian culture
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Are decisions in that continent generally made top down or by consensus
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Is feedback given directly or wrapped in positives
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Are strategies implemented with little or with much discussion?
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The one pertinent component of Engagement is to be vulnerable with your team, to open up and be willing to learn something new each day
Thank Dr. Nelva Lee for guiding our school to be well known and respected in the United States. God bless you all”
Jose Cuello Espinosa
