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It has to start from the leadership and work its way through the team until it becomes the team/company culture. Whomever were the most senior leaders in that conversation should have redirected the conversation back, and I guarantee you it would not have continued to veer as much if they had.
Human beings have survived on people pleasing in the past. It’s not a bad thing, but just that we don’t need this for survival anymore and need to deprogram it from our operating systems. Until then, we will continue to behave in ways that we feel will keep us safe and potentially help us thrive - at work, that translates to being liked by our superiors and so we behave in ways that will appease them. If what appeases them are some of these very real issues, that’s when the real changes will start occurring and cascading.
Anyway, this was my own personal rant from a similar interaction.
Cont'd: do you'll have suggestions for how to effectively have discussions on diversity and inclusion with your team? Would love to hear some thoughts and ideas.
Good points made already.
If I could add, it is important not to understate the importance of this conversation and others like it around culture, race, privilege, bias of all kinds, and effective leadership for the whole company.
Having said that, it is also important not to undervalue the skill set needed to facilitate these conversations.
Respectfully, if you have a professional run the initial conversations then you can make some traction and you can help prevent the wavering off topic that happened. Without skill, the lack of direction will continue to happen. At the same time, if you can also get some in your company trained, then you will have internal capability, which will be more cost-effective term. Hope it all goes well for you going forward.