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What could Inclusion mean for orgs as lockdown is eased?

Africa's Leading Voices

English - July 07, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 42.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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First, let me apologize for the cracking sounds in this episode. I tried hard to get rid of it in editing. In the end, I had to make a choice between discarding the recording or going with it. #learninganddoing

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The question in my head, which spurred this episode is this, as people go back to work in formal workspaces, what does inclusion need right now in this time of crisis? If we were speaking to the leader, that is the leader of a particular system, whether it's HR as a system, managing people, or CE or GM, what would we tell them that inclusion needs right now? In this crisis as we move from levels 5 to 4, to 3 to 2? Will we ever get to 1? Life as it was???

In this episode we discuss
Job Security 12:00
Switching on consciousness as a leader 15:24
Financial Security 16:00
"I can be privileged without feeling privileged" 21:47
Being privileged: safer, familiar, valuable, likable 23:00
Contract of ignorance 26:42
Cues around languaging and systemic inclusion: support for leaders 30:34
Leadership really needs to create 'emotional' space 31:45
Social justice = sustainable social value 36:18
Access to emotional support in the workplace 40:48
Progress over perfection   42:45
The leaders who are exceptionally good at telling the story, win the hearts of the people 49:41
Cultures of survival replicate ugliness 53:33