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Three Steps for Disrupting Bias on Your Team
High-performing teams foster a culture of feedback on unconscious bias through consistent, compassionate rituals, as proposed by Kim Scott, encouraging open dialogue, shared vocabulary, and a commitment to normalize bias correction in order to build lasting habits.
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Seven Ways to Speak Truth to Power
Executive coach Kim Scott outlines a strategic approach to addressing harmful workplace dynamics, emphasizing the importance of documentation, building solidarity, considering exit options, communicating with management and HR, seeking legal advice, and sharing experiences publicly to foster change.
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What to Do When You’ve Been Disrespected
In this video lesson, Kim Scott provides a framework for addressing bias, prejudice, and bullying, emphasizing the importance of strategic responses and offering specific language to help individuals decide when and how to speak up effectively.
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What is Democracy?
The term “democracy,” derived from Greek meaning “rule by the people,” encompasses evolving principles of freedom, equality, and justice, as discussed by Judith Butler, who emphasizes the necessity of challenging societal norms to foster progress and redefine these ideals over time.
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How Can We Think About Gender?
Philosopher Judith Butler emphasizes the importance of adopting a growth mindset to understand and accept diverse gender identities, encouraging patience and active listening to navigate the complexities of individual experiences that may challenge our fixed assumptions.
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What is Gender?
Emma Watson advocates for viewing gender as a spectrum rather than a binary, a perspective supported by Judith Butler’s theory, which emphasizes the fluidity of gender identity shaped by societal norms, cultural influences, and historical contexts.
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A Guide for HR Professionals
In a video lesson, Michael Kaufman emphasizes that HR departments need support from all business leaders to effectively drive gender equality and change, highlighting the importance of leadership involvement, measuring workplace metrics, and fostering a supportive environment for parental leave.
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Practice Inclusive Hiring
In this video lesson, inclusion specialist Ruchika Malhotra outlines strategies for standardizing interview processes to enhance inclusivity, including anonymizing resumes, leveling expectations, reducing affinity bias, and customizing questions for diverse candidates.
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Broaden Your Recruitment Efforts
To create a more inclusive work environment, organizations should prioritize hiring for “culture add” by diversifying their candidate pool, rethinking job listings to attract underrepresented demographics, and ensuring at least 50% of candidates are non-male and non-white.
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Rethink the Term “Microaggressions”
In a video lesson, inclusion strategist Ruchika Malhotra emphasizes the importance of recognizing “exclusionary behaviors,” such as mispronouncing names and stereotype-based assumptions, which can significantly impact marginalized individuals’ well-being and sense of belonging, and suggests asking for correct name pronunciations as a simple act of inclusion.
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Recognize and Address Unconscious Biases
Code-switching, a natural behavior adjustment based on context, becomes unhealthy when it requires suppressing one’s identity to avoid discrimination, as explored by inclusion strategist Ruchika Malhotra, who highlights its psychological toll and suggests methods to identify unconscious biases.