Doctor E outlines a simple approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion, urging teams to build DEI into existing meetings, celebrations, and development conversations. He emphasizes integrating DEI rather than isolating it, using everyday practices.
Happy Wednesday. Hope your week is going well. If you are fortunate enough to be experiencing the kind of weather that we are here in the Twin Cities, good for you. And if you aren't, hopefully you are enjoying in other ways.
Don't move your diversity, equity and inclusion efforts off into a separate space away from what you're currently doing. It should be incorporated, it should be integrated. Build it in to what you currently do.
Hello. Happy Wednesday. Doctor e here. Hope you are doing well. Hope your week is going well. And if you are fortunate enough to be experiencing the kind of weather that we are here in the Twin Cities, good for you. Hope you are out and enjoying it. And if you aren't, hopefully you are enjoying in other ways, whether it's outdoors, indoors, whatever your fancy might be. I had a really interesting question in response to the live last week, and so I wanted to share it with you. And I also wanted to touch on maybe an idea that might help you think about some of these things that I've been sharing over the last several months and weeks in terms of how to implement or how to do some of the things that I've shared, whether it's modeling, whether it's engaging in some sort of way.
Lots of folks hit me with questions that were really around, you know, love what you're saying, really can appreciate some of your ideas. But tell me, tell me more about how to actually go about doing some of those kinds of things. How do I take my team, my group, my organization, from not engaging Dei in any way on any level to, you know, stepping into that space, you know, and how does that look? How does that work? And I have three words for you, very simple words. Build it in. Build it in. Build it into what you currently do.
You know, whether you have meetings, whether you have department gatherings, whether you have informal holiday celebrations, all of those other kinds of things. Don't reinvent the wheel. Don't move your diversity, equity and inclusion efforts off into a separate space away from what you're currently doing or away from what you might be doing that you actually count as business essential, because diversity, equity and inclusion, in my humble opinion, is business essential. So it should be incorporated, it should be integrated.
It should be built into what you are currently doing and how you're going about practicing all of those things that you do. So if you have team meetings, if you have leadership one on ones, if you have development conversations, begin to incorporate, begin to ask some of those kinds of questions in those spaces, in those moments. So you, your team and others are starting to build that Dei muscle and mindset of constantly thinking about it, not as a one off, but absolutely as a one in and a one on.
And what I mean by that is, if you aren't building it in, that means you're taking your thoughts away from what you might be doing just to think about diversity, equity and inclusion. And that's not what you want. You don't want to have two waves of thought or two streams of thought going, you want to conflate those. You want to make them one and the same. And so begin to think about where, how, and when you can build it in to what you currently do. Those three simple words, don't reinvent the wheel.
Build it in to what you currently do. See you soon. Bye.
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