Personalizing Diversity 2
Agency managers, C-suite executives, and HR professionals all can embark on a journey to inclusiveness in eight simple steps developed by Dr. Mary-Frances Winters in her book Inclusion Starts With I, Eight Steps to Inclusion: The Personal Journey. Other resources are available at www.wintersgroup.com.
Eight Steps Diversity Expert Mary-Frances Winters Suggests and Questions to Ask Yourself
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Who are you? What do you stand for? What makes you “you”? |
What are your unique gifts? Who is your best self? |
In what ways do you exclude? How do you contribute to intolerance? What are your blind spots? |
What are your opportunities to grow? To be your best self? |
How are other individuals/ groups different from you? How are they the same? |
How do differences enhance who you are and can become? What can you learn from differences? |
Expand your circle to optimize diversity. |
Constantly ask yourself, where are you now? Are you growing in your journey to be more inclusive? What changes do you need to make? |
* Taken from Dr. Mary-Frances Winters’ Inclusion Starts With I, Eight Steps to Inclusion: The Personal Journey