What’s New: Getting Inclusive Leadership Right
The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) is a nonprofit organization that believes that “leadership is the critical lever for igniting positive, transformative, and sustainable change, at a time when the world requires new thinking and vision to solve both local and global challenges”.
The CCL posted the article titled Inclusive Leadership: Steps Your Organization Can Take to Get It Right. To foster a more inclusive organization culture the authors suggest engaging in seven acts of inclusion including:
Deepen your self-awareness: Leaders need to develop a personal understanding of their own biases, strengths, and weaknesses to authentically engage in acts of inclusion. This may mean admitting to mistakes and asking for feedback.
Foster Social Awareness: Inclusive leaders foster meaningful communication and cultivate relationships with other people.
Reveal Blind Spots: In daily interactions with people, leaders need to be open to new ideas, perspectives, experiences, and information.
Listen to Understand: Leaders need to effectively listen in everyday conversations.
Create Connections: The connections that leaders form with others should be designed to strengthen, encourage, and improve their bond.
Lead with Courageous Vulnerability: Leaders face their vulnerabilities and lead with courage.
Invest Resources in Inclusion: Forward-thinking organizations understand that inclusive leadership matters and invest resources to enhance their capacity and competence.
The is designed for leaders and organizations who want to “close the gap between intentions and actions”.
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