This episode on incivility at work was soooo welcome. It doesn't matter if you're on the left or the right, it might make you uncomfortable!
I love it when this happens! After well over 200 episodes, it's thrilling to be unexpectedly challenged!
Sara Taylor has been a DEI expert for a long time. She started her company, deepSEE Consulting in 2002. She has authored two books including, recently, 'Thinking at the Speed of Bias'. She has been a Chief Diversity Officer. She was on my panel discussion around DEI. So, in light of these facts, you might think she would blindly advocate for any DEI perspective, but you would be wrong!
We all have biases. Every single one of us. Whether we're white, black, asian, gay, straight... etc. We all know it's true, it's just that some people with biases have power. Sara also said:
2️⃣ Most of the incivility that HR is dragged into have to do with people in the second stage of culture competence.
🤝 With cultural competence we are not talking about ethnicities or geographies, we're talking about our ability to interact effectively with people who are different.
👯 Everyone is different. It's a rather obvious statement, but this includes the people you think are in your tribe almost as much as the people you think are NOT in your tribe.
Don't get too smug: When we think we are so great because we're getting along and ignoring the differences, remember, we are NOT fully developed. Back to the previous point: all people are different.
So fantastic! You should watch it or listen and join me in feeling delighted by the new ideas! Links are in the comments!
Find Sara Taylor at https://www.deepseeconsulting.com/ or on LinkedIn.
You can find her books wherever you buy them starting with the most recent:
Thinking at the Speed of Bias: How to Shift our Unconscious Filters
Filter Shift: How Effective People See the World
Find me, Andrea Adams, for small and medium business consulting and HR project management at https:/thehrhub.ca