Someone who isn’t speaking up as much as others isn’t necessarily lacking in confidence
People’s cultural backgrounds can influence how they relate to:
🎈those in senior positions
🎈their clients
🎈their colleagues
Culture can also impact how a person
🎈resolves conflicts
🎈takes feedback
🎈navigates office politics.
So if your organisation is proud of its global mix of people, make sure your managers are taking the time to get to know their teams on an individual level.
Building trusting relationships will make it easier to engage at a deeper level. And this might provide some meaningful insight about people’s behaviours, especially if our biases are expecting them to behave in the way we behave.
Contact us for information on how you can have meaningful and brave conversations about EDI.
