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Campaign to create a more inclusive workplace.
Campaign to create a more inclusive workplace.
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Before starting a conversation in your workplace, ask yourself a few questions:
- Am I comfortable bringing new ideas to team meetings?
- Will my team support me if I make a mistake or be quick to blame me for the consequences?
- Does your environment support outside the box thinking or are you in a “stay in your box” culture.
Before starting a conversation in your workplace, ask yourself a few questions:
- Am I comfortable bringing new ideas to team meetings?
- Will my team support me if I make a mistake or be quick to blame me for the consequences?
- Does your environment support outside the box thinking or are you in a “stay in your box” culture.
These questions are related to psychological safety in your workplace and before you can dive into random conversations, to reduce the possibility of negative impacts, start by improving your awareness of your surroundings.
How open is your workplace? Your team? How open are you?
Not everyone will be receptive, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t proceed. Below are some tips to help you get started.
How open is your workplace? Your team? How open are you?
Not everyone will be receptive, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t proceed. Below are some tips to help you get started.
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Educate yourself:
Increase your awareness and align on language and terms used in equity and inclusion. Try this tool for learning more about gender identity and read tips for talking about racial inequality.
Practice active listening skills to improve understanding.
Read how some of our clients have used their voice in their work in our DEI Impact Report.
Learn bias interruption techniques such as Calling Out or Calling In.
If you have Stacey’s book, Unbias: How to Address Unconscious Bias at Work, read page 88-89 which prepares you to pause a conversation that may go off the rails or give yourself time to reflect on how to proceed at a later date.
Engage in a courageous conversation.
Here are three tools to help you start a conversation.
This exercise is used to improve the quality of listening and tuning in to each other, as well as one-on-one reporting relationships.
The conversation café works well for group conversations and was designed for exploring a new topic or trend that is not well understood or for handling a topic where there will be strong feelings expressed.
At Rework Work, we devised a comprehensive program to improve team dynamics, increase awareness of the concepts that affect workplace culture (e.g. diversity, equity and inclusion) and facilitate inclusive leadership behaviors.
Here are three tools to help you start a conversation.
This exercise is used to improve the quality of listening and tuning in to each other, as well as one-on-one reporting relationships.
The conversation café works well for group conversations and was designed for exploring a new topic or trend that is not well understood or for handling a topic where there will be strong feelings expressed.
At Rework Work, we devised a comprehensive program to improve team dynamics, increase awareness of the concepts that affect workplace culture (e.g. diversity, equity and inclusion) and facilitate inclusive leadership behaviors.
#100Kconversations
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