Leadership Reflections and Insights: Empowering Leadership 2

COMMUNICATION INCLUSION

My beliefs about diversity, inclusion and belonging:

I describe my communication style as: • Diversity improves the quality of the work we do and will make easier to innovate.
• Assertive • Inclusion and belonging improves the health/performance/sentiment of the team.

I like to build connection by: What I need to feel a true sense of belonging:
• Caring about the other person • That my team care about me as a person and not just as an employee.

My communication superpowers: Three ways I can create a sense of inclusion for others in meetings and conversations:
• Empathy • Asking for sending any questions by slack after the meeting
• Friendliness • Naming specific members to ask them for their opinion
• Notify someone ahead that their participation would be appreciated in a specific
My communication kryptonite and watch outs: questions/topic in a meeting
• Debates based on personal opinions rather than data/facts
• Top-down hierarchies Where I can drive greater diversity of thought:
• Autocracy • Encouraging quiet members to speak up their opinions
• Making sure people know that their opinion s appreciated after they provide it
My critical few who I will consciously be more versatile in my communication with:
• DL Something I wish people knew about me:
• Lead Dev • I still struggle to ask someone to repeat when I don’t understand English
• Tech Lead words/sentences

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Leadership Insights and Actions for: Empowering Leadership 2
Let Be Let Go Let In

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