The Age Old Question! WHAT IS AND ISN'T INCLUSION?

Diversity is not necessarily inclusion.

🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏼Diversity is more about ensuring heterogeneity when selecting a workforce.

➡️ Inclusion is more about the practices that make every member feel welcome, by providing them an equal chance to succeed at the organisation.

❌ Inclusion does not mean accepting substandard work because the person belongs to a minority community.

💻 It means providing the person with essential tools he/she/ze needs to be able to succeed in that role. ♿

🎉 It means celebrating diversity by not excluding them from work events and other things.

🗣️ It means giving the person the feedback he/she/ze needs to improve.

👂It means truly listening to understand ways to help the person succeed.

❌ It does not mean allowing the person to do whatever they want, at the expense of other workers having to do the person's work for them.

✅ It just means removing barriers to their success and levelling the playing field as much as possible.

❌ It does not mean accepting incompetence.

 ✅ It means teaching them how to be more competent.