What If by Steve Robbins

Author:Steve Robbins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2018-11-06T16:00:00+00:00

Who’s on Your Bridge?

To help you begin to evaluate your cultural lenses and filters and entertain new perspectives, here are some questions to ask, an activity, and an assignment for this week.

1. First glance. What does the “bridge” of your organization’s starship look like? How might your colleagues view it?

2. Looking inward. How do you see the starship Enterprise? Do you see it as a model for diversity, or a continuation of the “same old, same old”? How strongly do you stick to your interpretation of facts in the face of other perspectives? Are you able to entertain the possibility that a different interpretation also may be accurate?

3. What if? What if you walked through your organization trying to see it from the perspective of a colleague who is, in some ways, very different from you? What might you notice that would be cause for deeper consideration?

4. Activity. Using a flip chart to record your observations, examine the bridge of your organization, work group, or office. How do you see your company doing in respect to diversity? Do persons of color and women (as examples) span all levels in your organization? Identify three or four concrete actions your group could take to help fill the gaps on your bridge. Discuss some ways you might increase the number of multiple, diverse perspectives in leadership, in decision making, in development, and so on.

5. This week’s assignment. Walk through your neighborhood and view it from the perspective of a small child, a person from a different socioeconomic class or racial background from yours, an individual who is less or more physically able than you, someone with a different sexual orientation from yours, a person who speaks English better or worse than you, and so on. Practice seeing the world through a different set of lenses.

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