From the course: Sustainable DEI: Taking Action as an Individual, Team, and Organization
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Build self-awareness and social awareness
From the course: Sustainable DEI: Taking Action as an Individual, Team, and Organization
Build self-awareness and social awareness
- How can we expect our workplaces to transform if we don't transform ourselves? Change begins with me and it begins with you, us as individuals. This is why I'd like to offer some perspective on actions we can take toward personal transformation that is investing our own development, integrating our new knowledge, and improving ourselves for the better. Personal transformation is where we are most empowered and what's most accessible to us. We begin with the growth mindset, one that's open to learning and therefore change. Without that, we might derail the hard work that goes into transforming ourselves. Warner Burke from Columbia University describes it as what we do when we don't know what to do. He and David Hoff, his co-author, identified these nine dimensions of learning agility that can be practiced and demonstrated in behavior. Take a pause here and review each dimension for yourself. How might you practice…
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