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Leadership and Excellence In Diversity:Sustaining the Diversity Movement in
Changing Times
Presenter: Lonney F GregoryModerator: Gloria PualaniPanelist: Angela ThompkinsPanelist : Bonita Volcy
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What is this? Why is this important?
Because It’s Complex
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And so is Making Inroads in Diversity & Inclusion
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Session Objectives1. Explore business challenges and stressors that
impact our leaders2. Examine what it means to transform organizational
culture3. Explore key diversity & inclusion leadership and
management behaviors and skills4. Create a plan for excellence in diversity and
inclusion leadership5. Describe strategies for building the right
leadership brand and image
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Inclusion Defined:DICTIONARY
The action or state of including or of being included within a group or structure.Include: comprise or contain as part of a whole.
IN ORGANIZATIONSAll employees feel as though they belong, accepted for who and how they are, and valued for their uniqueness.Employees are recognized for their commitment and energy towards the organization.Whole What?
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Complicated V. Complex
Complicated systems have many moving parts, but they operate in patterned predictable ways by design.
Complex systems are imbued with features that may operate in patterned ways, by design, but whose interactions are continually changing in relationship to context.
Complicated
Complex
InterdependenceMultiplicityDiversity
Many InputVaried OutputsControllableFixed Behaviors
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Characteristics of a Complex Adaptive SystemSelf-organizing Non-linearity Order/chaos dynamic Emergence
• A complex adaptive system is a system made up of many individual parts or agents.
• The individual parts, or agents, in a complex adaptive system follow simple rules.
• There is no [single] leader or individual who is coordinating the action of [all] others.
• Through the interactions of the agents emergent patterns are generated. • When elements of the system are altered, the system adapts or reacts.
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What about these Agents and Stressors
Patterns
Regularities
Stresses Stresse
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Culture Resides Here
Culture
People
Processes Policies
Vision Strategies
Goals Pressures
History
Unwritten Rules
How thingsReally get done
Stories
TraditionsValues
Perception
FeelingsBeliefs
Culture is the result of a complex group learning process
The Leadership Dilemma
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Change
“IT’S THE TRANSITION, NOT THE CHANGE, THAT PEOPLE OFTEN RESIST.”
– WILLIAM BRIDGES
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Change v Transition
A Process: An internal psychological reorientation
SOMETHING OLD STOPS SOMETHING NEW BEGINS
CHANGE
TRANSITION
Event Based
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This Why Inclusion Is So Hard
Adapted from: Leading Strategic Change: Breaking Through the Brain Barrier, J. Stuart Black and Hal Gregersen, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2003.
Inclusive Behaviors
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Stage 1 Stage 4
Stage 3 Stage 2
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Current Thing New Thing
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D&I Leadership and Management Skills and BehaviorsTHE LEADER• Builds trust• Has an inclusive mind set• Displays transparency• Focuses on results• Specialist manager versus
a Generalist leader• Has a big picture
perspective• Has a team orientation• Values all members on
the team
THE D&I PRACTITIONER LEADERShows empathy Understand interpersonal dynamics Understands and is conversant with the theories and constructs associated with biasUnderstands complexity and systems thinking
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The Plan for Excellence• Perform organizational assessments • Conduct leadership assessments and 360’s• Conduct training• Disseminate reminders – Micro-messages• Build individual management -to- employee
inclusion plans• Experiment with more drastic way to increase
inclusion• Measure and communicate
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The Inclusive Leader Personal Brand Statement
Draft
Personal branding describes the process by which individuals and entrepreneurs differentiate themselves and stand out from a crowd by identifying and articulating their unique value proposition, whether professional or personal, and then leveraging it across platforms with a consistent message and image to achieve a specific goal. In this way, individuals can enhance their recognition as experts in their field, establish reputation and credibility, advance their careers, and build self-confidence.
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Inclusive Leader Personal Brand Exercise Take 2 minutes to inventory “brand qualities”
Take 2 minutes to describe your desiresTake 2 minutes to package itFind a partner and each take 1 minute to deliver your respective inclusive leader personal branding message
As a D&I professional I use my knowledge of the complexities and challenges facing my organization to deliver trusted consultation that address unconscious bias, Intersectionality, and equality. I will work empathetically and transparently to build a more inclusive organization that achieves the business results for which we all have been charged.
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