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We Are Reponsible for Creating the World we want to see
Taking responsibility for our own thinking and actions, nurturing our critical thinking abilities, ensuring we inform ourselves through a variety of perspectives sourced from a wide range of people in our lives, not just from media sources, exploring and challenging our own ideas….all of these are necessary to cultivate a practical and grounded focus on…
Read MoreHelping Yourself and Others Work Through Changes
One useful tool to help ourselves and others work through changes in society, respond to new concepts, and even to understand how we relate to different people, is to locate ourselves and others using five typical roles: Innovator, Change Agent, Pragmatist, Sceptic, (Skeptic in North America), and Traditionalist. Based on Marilyn Loden’s Diversity Adoption Process,…
Read MoreStrengthen Your Ability to Work with Others
There are many things that make us unique and distinct – and there are larger, universal things that connect us. We all feel emotion. We may express it differently based on our culture, personality, and context (many of us would not bring full emotional expression to work, for example) but to be able to work…
Read MoreStart with Yourself
All effective leadership development starts with the self. Self-focus is not selfish or self-centred. We learn about the self so that we can respond more effectively to others. Our first task is to be present and self-aware. An important and useful way to cultivate self-awareness if by grounding yourself in awareness of your body. In…
Read MoreInclusive Leadership: Catalyst Report
Leaders often tell us that they understand the theory of inclusive leadership, but struggle to put it into practice. A recent report from Catalyst (Getting Real About Inclusive Leadership: Why Change Starts With You, by Dnika J. Travis, Phd, Emily Shaffer, Phd, and Jennifer Thorpe-Moscon, Phd) helps address this issue. Noting the benefits of inclusive…
Read MoreWorking Together – December 2019
Welcome to this monthly newsletter, in which we explore topics relating to leadership and organisational culture, global diversity and inclusion, gender, culture, bias, and more. In this issue: Reflections Generous Multiculturalism: Facts, Truth, and the Power of Stories Decolonising the Mind Inclusive Leadership: New Catalyst Report I hope you find these sharings interesting and useful…
Read MoreDecolonising the Mind
Following up on our mention of the excellent work by Natasha Aruliah (see The Power of the Circle in our August 2019 Newsletter) comes this reminder to check our fundamental assumptions from science and environment educators Carolina Castano Rodriguez and Laura Barraza (in *13 Questions: Reframing Education’s Conversation: Science Series. Edited By Lynn A. Bryan…
Read MoreGenerous Multiculturalism: Facts, Truth, and the Power of Stories
Some selected facts from The Economist Special Report: Migration (November 16, 2019) If everyone who wanted to migrate were able to do so, global GDP would double according to the Centre for Global Development Migrants are far less numerous than news footage suggests – the UN estimates about 3.5% of global population are migrants, barely…
Read MoreReflections
As we reach the end of a calendar year for many people in the world, here a few thoughts: Focus on the positives. Being aware of bias is just the beginning. What’s important is that we use that awareness to change behaviour, Knowing that humans apparently have an inbuilt bias towards the negative, it’s up…
Read MoreWorking Together – November 2019
Working Together from Duncan Smith, ADC Associates Welcome to this monthly newsletter, in which we explore topics relating to leadership and organisational culture, global diversity and inclusion, gender, culture, bias, and more. In this issue: Piloting through chaos: Leaders Transforming the World for the Better Responding to difference: A few Basics Beginner’s Mind Best regards,…
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