Over the past year, our world took many different, critical paths. In this episode, we discuss diversity and inclusion in our workplace. Specifically, how the issues have developed over time and the opportunities to pursue for our future.
Our guests are Courtnee Carrigan, CEO & Executive Trainer, Raising the Bar Performance Group. And Tim Harman, Senior Consultant, Workforce Innovation Center.
It seems that the diversity and inclusion discussion always revolves around our differences. But in actuality, what we really need to focus upon are our similarities.
There are many stories in the news today about race, diversity, inclusion and equity.
How did we historically got to this point?
Many of us grew up with a definition of diversity being protection and fairness in representation. Our workplaces had initiatives and programs related to race, gender, religion, age because it was “the right thing to do.”
Diversity and Inclusion were interchangeable in the past. However, in today’s workplace, Inclusion is the creation of a culture which respects, supports and collaborates with various existing viewpoints.
For many of us equity meant equality, where we need to treat everyone the same. But that’s not really what equity is about. Equity means we have an opportunity to recognize our different needs and/or abilities and design differently. So that we involve and engage each person.
It seems that we are fighting injustices that have existed for literally hundreds of years. To close out part one of our two part podcast, Courtnee and Tim put this historic information into context. They do this by giving us a better picture to what it all means.
Here are the list of resources mentioned in this podcast.
Part two of this conversation will be available Monday June 7, 2021.
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