Leading Inclusively

• We are all subject to unconscious biases which are part of our brain’s attempt to make decisions quickly. Use Hack your unconscious biases to build awareness and control your bias.
• Running meetings is hard. Running meetings that give all team members a sense of belonging is even harder. Use Better and more inclusive meetings to make it easier.
• Use the Disrupt stereotyping tool to identify different types of gender biases through the patterns in which they present and see suggestions for counteracting them.
• Use the Team blueprint to kick-off a team based conversation that defines your ‘Ways of working’, starting with your team purpose and priorities and incorporating flexibility options.
• Use Ladder of inference to work out how to avoid ‘jumping to conclusions’ that can allow us to see certain things and miss others, depending on the focus of our unconscious.
• Practise your listening skills, ask people how they are/ feel and genuinely listen to their response. You don’t need to be a problem solver, but a great listener can go a long way to understanding someone else’s experiences and views.
• Storytelling is a powerful communication method for all. Use Write your own story to prepare your story of inclusion in a way that facts, figures and bullet points can’t convey.

Tools

• Hack your unconscious biases
• Better and more inclusive meetings
• Disrupt stereotyping
• Team blueprint
• Ladder of inference
• Practise your listening skills
• Write your own story

Other areas that might help

• Communicating & Listening
• Coaching & Developing Others

• Let’s change the story: Violence against women in Australia
• Inclusive Diversity: The Game Changer

• The Inclusive Leader
• The six signature traits of inclusive leadership