Leadership

The Network, Mentoring, and Sponsorship Gaps have a disproportionate impact on Diverse talent.  Sign Up to Mentor Diverse colleagues. Start this week!

How Diverse is your Network? A diverse network brings richness & depth to our thinking  Try this: Create a Diversity Map. Look at your contacts, LI connections, or FB friends. How many cities, countries, industries, organizations, functions, roles, religions, gender, race, organization levels, socio-economic classes would they represent? Is anyone missing? Reach out! Try this …

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Seek out Diverse Role Models Having diverse role models,  shows curiosity, openness and an expansive diversity mindset. Try this : Create a list of Diverse Role Models, and what you want to learn from them. Start by making your first connection this week.

Is ‘Assume Positive Intent’ a good mantra for Inclusion? NO. Isn’t it better to understand the intent, rather than just assume that it is positive? EXPLAIN your intent and seek to understand others’ intent.

Maximize the Power of 1:1s They are an opportunity to get to know each other, bond, build rapport and trust, share experiences and learnings, seek and provide feedback, appreciate and recognize, as well as to stretch, challenge, learn and grow.  Remember, it is not just about work! 

Your calendar shows if you are inclusive or not… As a leader, who you make time for, and how much, says a lot about how you value the diversity of your team. When a leader makes time for our peers, but not us, it breaks trust, and makes us feel like we don’t belong. Try …

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Inclusion is about MOMENTS of TRUTH. Leaders can come across as either as Inclusive, or Not, in every critical interaction from career conversations to team meetings, 1x1s to interviews, hiring assessments to promotion selections. Unconscious bias is an excuse. Let’s focus on conscious actions. 

Everyone has a story. It is what makes us who we are. Share yours, learn someone else’s.

Stereotypes are the enemy of Inclusion They prevent us from seeing people as individuals, and reduce unique individuals to a simple demographic. In our inextricably interconnected world, we are shaped by varied influences, and we are all much more than our  nationality, race, gender or religion. Try this : List all the stereotypes you know, …

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