Inclusive Leadership

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Over four weeks, McChrystal Group provided resources to help leaders take action to build and lead inclusive team environments.

Leaders have an exponential influence on an organization’s ability to build inclusive cultures and work practices. We cannot have adaptable teams and we cannot attract and retain talent without encouraging and modeling inclusive leadership behaviors and putting energy into building inclusive environment—it’s a leadership fundamental.

The Inclusive Leadership series deep dives into Inclusion, examining four key factors that fall within a leader’s control that impact perceptions of environmental inclusion: increasing fairness perceptions, ensuring involvement in the workgroup for all, empowering voice in decision making and effectively integrating differences.

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Demystifying DEI

Through our “Demystifying DEI” No Turning Back miniseries, we examine how organizations define and work through, the important work of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

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Beyond Consensus—Empowering Diverse Voices in Decision Making

Inclusive environments invite different voices to share ideas, and solutions to enable effective decision making. This article shares why empowering voices in decision making is critical and shares The Four Layers of Diversity model as an effective framework for leaders to utilize.

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Inclusive Leadership: Integration of Differences

Integrating differing viewpoints is central to any good decision-making process, yet leaders often struggle with this. Bias blind spots prevent leaders from realizing that additional stakeholders should contribute to the discussion (and who those individuals are). Other times, the right people are in the room, but a lack of trust or psychological safety enable groupthink despite the leader actively soliciting diverse opinions.

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Involvement in the Workgroup

Involvement in the workgroup is a key part of inclusive leadership, representing how connected employees are in an organization to one another. Fostering greater involvement can be leveraged by leaders in the strategy, development, and execution process to develop a more successful strategy and more inclusive workplace.

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Fairness Perceptions

Success is defined by the chemistry with which we work together as a team. Through our decades of experience cultivating high performing environments, McChrystal Group has determined that the strength of that chemistry is first measured by the perceptions of fairness within our teams.
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Decision Making

Decisions no longer happen in a linear fashion. Leaders can divide the decision-making process into two phases that allow for clarity of information and opportunity for team input to increase inclusion throughout the organization.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Environmental factors contribute to inclusion in an organization—two of particular needs to be met are belonging and uniqueness.

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Retention and Inclusion

Building an inclusive environment is one of the most important factors for retention. A recent conference board survey shows that 84% of US companies say that hiring and retaining workers is significantly harder now than it was a year ago. Our research shows that leaders who are looking to boost inclusion and retention should start with increasing empowered execution within their team.

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The Key to an Inclusive Hybrid Team

What does a hybrid work environment really mean for individuals and leaders? For those leaders who choose to move to a hybrid model, this change will introduce novel challenges that require a thoughtful approach to combat these challenges and ensure inclusivity.
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