Why Adopting a “One At A Time” Approach to Diversity is an Inclusion Mistake

Trying to fix diversity, one aspect at a time could be devastating your inclusion efforts

Find out why adopting a “One At A Time” approach to Diversity is a huge mistake.

Here are some key messages from this episode

• Why Adopting a “One At A Time” Approach to Diversity is too basic
• The blunt instrument employed by governments to promote Diversity
• How organisations create “hierarchies of pain” without knowing about it and much much more

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Here are some key takeaways from this episode:

Why Adopting a “One At A Time” Approach to Diversity is too basic

“it’s too basic because it ignores the multiple social identities that we have as individuals; it implies that as individuals we can conveniently pick and choose how our identity is experienced and therefore organisations can conveniently pick and choose how to create an inclusive workplace”

The blunt instrument employed by governments to promote Diversity

“The incentives are there for leaders to deal with gender as an issue because of the attention this subject is getting worldwide; I mean governments worldwide. Governments all over the world from Iceland to India have introduced legislation to increase the number of women in senior leadership roles for large companies”

How organisations create “hierarchies of pain” without knowing about it

“we have to be careful about creating hierarchies of pain where some aspects of diversity are considered to be more important than others; because this leads to the one of the 3 biggest problems that organisations experience on their inclusion journey that is they have find it difficult to engage the people that they are trying to include.”

Here are some resources so you can go deeper

Intersectionality, Discrimination & Employee Resource Groups

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