From the course: Confronting Bias: Thriving Across Our Differences

How you show up

- I've been working on the issues of diversity, inclusion in workplaces for over 20 years and what I notice is people like the diversity thing, they get it now. They understand that diversity's important different perspectives and views and experiences and competencies and that's going to create more innovation and creativity and productivity and all of it is so positive. People get it, yay, diversity. But the inclusion part is the harder part because what I discovered is that some people think, oh that someone else's job to create the policies and the practices and the situations where all of us feel respected and included. But truthfully, it is impossible for us to create these kinds of environments unless each one of us on a daily basis are thinking deeply about how we are showing up in the workplace how we're behaving our particular sphere of influence, and whether we are acting in a way that invites and respects people or whether we are perpetuating a sense of exclusion or isolation or disrespect. And you don't have to actually be trying to exclude someone to actually have that effect. So I'm Verna Myers, and my job is to be a cultural innovator and an inclusion strategist. I want to talk to you about the skills that I have learned that work for each of us as we take on the responsibility of creating the kind of inclusive environment that we all want to live and work in.

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