Leading Inclusion: How To Get It Right

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‘Business leaders can help eliminate race-based workplace disparities by listening to and connecting with employees of all races.’

It is difficult to build and lead an inclusive organization without first understanding the experiences of those who have been traditionally excluded.

‘You must create and maintain an environment in which traditionally underrepresented groups do not face systemic hindrances and are unequivocably safe to voice the injustices they experience.’

‘To understand how to enhance the experiences of employees from traditionally underrepresented groups, leaders must connect with all employees.’

‘Although it is vital to address both interpersonal and systemic bias in organizations, focusing on the systemic bias will have a faster and more scalable impact.’

Leaders must recognize and fix their own implicit biases.’

To really understand employee experience, understand how managers behave.’

‘Employees who are subordinated and waiting for systemic change know that disproportionately focusing on ‘the money’ only perpetuates the very problem that needs to be solved.

Your executive team members can make or break your efforts to build an inclusive culture.’

Multicultural competency should be an essential leadership expectation, like financial and marketing acumen.’

Source

Gena Cox (2022). Leading Inclusion: Drive Change Your Employees Can See and Feel

Tearing Other People Down Will Never Make You Happy

Life is not about tearing other people down. It is not about making other people feel terrible about themselves. It is not about bringing other people down, taking what belongs to them. It is not about thinking negative thoughts about other people.

Life is about loving people. It is about showing them the way. It is about accepting them for who they are, not for what they can do for you.

If you want to get ahead in your own life, tearing other people down won’t get you there.

If you want to be happy in your life, beating other people down won’t get you there.

If you want to get better at what you are doing, tearing other people down won’t do it for you. Instead, it will make you even weaker.

If you want other people to love you, to follow you, to accept you for who you are, don’t tear them down.

That is life! If you don’t love them, they won’t love you. If you don’t care about them, they won’t care about you.

Before you go, remember this: If you want to go far in your life, you have got to learn how to carry other people along. You have got to lift other people up. Why?

Because no one is good enough to know everything.