How I Talk About Inclusion. Even When I’m Afraid

I Know You’re Afraid To Talk About Inclusion.
I’m Afraid Too.

That sounds weird coming from someone who talks about Inclusion everyday.

Key Topics Covered in This Episode:

1. Why speaking in context protects your credibility.
2. How relevance reduces risk when discussing inclusion
3. How to test if someone is open to evidence.

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Key Takeaways from This Episode:

• Relevance gives your words more power.
  
  • "When you talk about inclusion or diversity or race. Is in context of the space you’re in?"

• Context protects you and builds trust.
  
  • "It would be out of context if I started giving you travel tips. Or if I started giving you dating advice. Or if I started talking about gardening. Those things are out of context."

• Reasonable people change when shown the evidence.
  
  • "One of my tests of if a person is reasonable is if they change their mind when presented with new trustworthy evidence. "

Check out these resources :

• Confronting My Personal Fear of Speaking Up About Diversity and Inclusion
• Free 2-minute audit tool: Check if your business case for inclusion would make sense to your CFO.  (Get Access Here)