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Diversity Includes
Various Dimensions
& Intersectionality
5 ways intersectionality affects diversity and
inclusion at work, WEF, 2020
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Benefits to Teams
Generate more *unlikely* ideas
Develop product tailored to a diverse customer base
Challenge & benefit non-diverse teams
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By the year 2025, Millennials will represent
75% of the global workforce
74%
74% say their organization
is more innovative when
inclusive.
47%
47% actively look for
diversity and inclusion in
potential employers.
83%
83% of millennials are
actively engaged in
inclusive cultures.
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45%
54%
48%
61%
54% of women research a
company’s inclusion policies
before accepting an offer
61% of women specifically
investigate company’s
leadership team before
accepting an offer
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PWC, 2017
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1. We are unaware of how teams interact
2. Team leaders are not actively involved
3. Inclusion is not applied in daily decisions
2018 Key Challenges for Actualizing Inclusion
Gartner 2018/ Shaaron A Alvares: Boosting Team Inclusion at the
Workplace Using Artificial Intelligence Technologies
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Gather Data
1
• What does it mean to be inclusive & collaborative?
• What are the inclusive behaviors & tactics we want to
display everyday in our interactions?
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Decide What To Do
• Develop the Team’s inclusive collaboration Roadmap
• Design an experiment to implement the top behaviors & tactics
• Model & Practice everyday & Hold each other accountable
• Survey the team to check how we’ve progressed
3
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Decide What To Do
3 • Develop the Team’s inclusive collaboration Roadmap
• Design an experiment to implement the top behaviors & tactics
• Model & Practice everyday & Hold each other accountable
• Survey the team to check how we’ve progressed
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“When we have strong reactions to someone,
we check our assumptions”
3.1
Decide What To Do
Step 2: Develop clear actions to actualize the top identified
behaviors
Ask Yourself the following questions:
1. Could I be wrong in my perception of the situation?
2. What do I know about myself that may have triggered
this reaction?
3. In what other ways could I have responded to this
person or situation?
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Outcomes
Improved awareness of behaviors
Actualizing Inclusion & Belonging is
everybody’s responsibility
Shared understanding of Inclusive
practice
Improved teams’ trust & reliability
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Best Practices
Allow teams to define the inclusive values and behaviors that best
fit them based on their team experience
Embed Inclusive Collaboration in everyday work & interaction
Share inclusion organizational challenges with Managers
Make these practices fully transparent: share the results
Teams in a “speak up” culture are 3.5 times more likely
to contribute their full innovative potential.
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The Solution:
Include & Empower the Team
To make Hiring Decision
The team interviewed the candidates through
a real life work situation
The Team designed a Backlog Refinement
event & identified the Features to refine
They made decision with everyone’s input
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Outcomes
Unanimous consensus in favor of the same
candidate
Everyone on the Team felt valued, trusted &
empowered to make a critical decision that
impacted them directly
The Team observed the candidates interactions
with all of them
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Other Inclusive Hiring Practices
Include your team in resume screening
Include your team in job description writing and review
Develop an Inclusion Bar Raiser Program
Keep bias in check
Hire for culture-add – not for culture-fit
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Go-To SMEs
Tech Influencers & Disrupters
Navigate across many internal
Stakeholders
Unique relationship with Users &
Communities
Brand & Culture Ambassadors
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Engage Developer Advocates
in Diversity & Inclusion activities
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Are you looking for Candidates
in all the wrong places?
#Include
Lessons learned creating an Inclusive Space
in a decade old Community
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Chloe Condon, Cloud Advocate Sy Brand, Developer Advocate
Support Inclusion Advocates
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Key Takeaways
It’s real and it’s not going away
Ask your teams about inclusion & belonging
Inclusion need to be embedded & measured
in everyday Interactions
Managers need to model the behaviors
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Are You One of Us? Octavius Black, 2016
A Crisis of Diversity and Inclusion in DevOps, Bridget Arthur & Clayton Hynfield, 2019
Listen,
Amplify,
Make Space,
Learn,
& Act In
Collaboration
John Skeet, 2019