Rosalind G. Brewer, How to Foster True Diversity and Inclusion at Work (and in your community).
Companies that consider diversity and inclusion too often focus on meeting metrics instead of building relationships with people of diverse backgrounds says Starbucks former COO, Rosalind G. Brewer. In this personable and wide-ranging conversation with TED current affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers, Brewer invites leaders to rethink what it takes to create a truly inclusive workplace and how to bring real, grassroots change to boardrooms and communities alike.
I can do question 1 just need you to do the other ones.
Discussion Questions: (Draw from the text and the videos when answering the questions.)
1. Who are you? Introduce yourself to the class. What are the different identities you hold? (race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, groups you belong to that are important to you)? What are the core elements of you as a person? Do you have any intersectional identities (e.g., Mexican woman)?
2. After taking the
Diversity Leadership Quiz,
determine where you are on the Inclusify Leadership Matrix. Report your scores and answer the following questions:
· What was your Meritocracy Manager Score?
· What was your Optimist Score?
· What was your Inclusifyer Score?
· What was your Culture Crusader/ Team Player Score?
· What was your White Knight/ Shepherd Score?
· What are your initial thoughts about the questions that were asked on this quiz, and how did you respond to them?
· Where do you think you are in your Inclusify journey?
2. Why should creating diversity and inclusion be important to the organization that you work for or are a member of? What is the relationship between diversity and innovation? How can diversity be a competitive advantage?
3. What do you think of the ways leaders go wrong when it comes to uniqueness and belonging? Describe a time when you felt 1) incomplete, 2) invisible, 3) insular, 4) Next, think of others in your organization. Can you imagine any situations where people might feel incomplete, invisible, or insular? What can you do to help people in your office not feel that way? What are the problems with being color-blind? Race-blind? Gender-blind?
4. What did you think of the visualization exercise with the rockstar and the nun? What does that tell you about unconscious bias? How could you implement the ABCs (admit it, block it, count it) in your workplace? What steps do you need to take?
5. What do diversity and inclusion look like in your organization (you can choose to discuss any organization that you are a member of)? What are the visible signs of diversity and inclusion? Do your website, materials, pictures, and signs demonstrate diversity and inclusion? Does the organization include instances of diversity and inclusion in the stories they tell? What are the structural barriers to diversity and inclusion (including the policies, procedures, and practices)? How can your organization foster real, grassroots change?
Address the above questions with at least one paragraph per question (i.e., a minimum of five paragraphs), and then respond to two of your classmates’ posts.
Full citations are only required for material that is not included as part of the assignment. However, in-text citations are required. An example of an in-text citation is (Johnson, 2020).
