Onboard As Inclusive Leaders: Clear Career Inclusive, #3

By Devi Sunny

Find Your Potential to Impact the Best

 

How Inclusive are you? Are you unconsciously biased?

Do you promote Psychological Safety?

 

This book will help you find answers and enable you to onboard as Inclusive Leaders.

 

Innovation, financial performance, and employee productivity are indispensable for business growth. Inclusion helps in achieving these objectives of the business. Diversity, in line with inclusion and equity creates a sense of belonging in employees.

 

This book helps to develop the essential qualities required to be hired as an inclusive leader; understand unconscious biases, the importance of psychological safety and how it has an impact on workplace productivity.

 

The book also gives you the free test links to understand your MBTI personality type, strength, and Bias Tests (The Implicit Association test - Harvard University)

 

 

"If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance."
― Marcus Aurelius

 

We need more inclusive leaders who will consider others in their decisions, and that alone can give rise to sustainable development and positive impacts on people and the planet.

 

✓ Find How?

 

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Devi Sunny
• Release date: Sep 26, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215615416

Devi Sunny

Devi Sunny, bestselling author and founder of Clear Career, aims to promote inclusion and help individuals discover their unique strengths. Believing in the power of investing in one's personality strength, she mentors individuals in both career development and integrated personality development. Through her Clear Career Inclusive & Fearless Empathy series, Devi highlights the importance of developing empathy as a strength, particularly for individuals with rare personality types, such as intuitive feelers and empaths, who have the potential to become powerful catalysts for inclusion. Get a free copy of Your Personality Strength Report by contacting Devi at [e-mail] or visiting her website at www.clearcareer.in. Join Devi on a journey toward a brighter, more inclusive future.

Book preview

Clear Career Inclusive Series

1)  Book 1

Raising Your Rare Personality

Discover Your Personality and What Makes You Rare. Learn How You Relate and Contrast Yourself to Others. Increase Resilience, Reduce Crisis, and Unlock Your Ideal Career. 

2)  Book 2

Upgrade as Futuristic Empaths

5 Steps to Build the Profile of Intuitive Feelers for Successful Careers and to Develop Empathy as Strength. An Empath's Guide to Existential Crisis, Finding Purpose & Clarity in Chaos.

3)  Book 3

Onboard as Inclusive Leaders

Increase Job Readiness; Improve Performance & Innovation, and Profit by Learning Inclusive Leadership Skills. Identify Unconscious Biases, Ensure Psychological Safety & Better Workplace Productivity. 

Upcoming Books are from the Series: Fearless Empathy

About the Book

Inclusion is not a myth. It is not a utopian thought. It is a concept many companies mechanically practice without being aware of the term ‘inclusion’, merely by being considerate to people who are different- physically and psychologically. Anyone at the workplace or elsewhere can learn to be inclusive if they are able to understand by observing or through their own experience how it feels to be ignored.

Every person we come across does not have the benefit of privilege. We ourselves lack certain entitlements which others may have. So why should we include others or feel that we should be included? Is it an idealistic thought? How can we apply this idea to bring about practical solutions in real life situations?

We see the perils of a linear economy and the benefits of a circular economy. Linear economy is not sustainable. It might have given us financial benefits but at a cost to society and the environment. Both linear and recycling economy types produces waste. In a circular economy, nothing is wasted. Everything and everyone can find a place to be of use in. The possibilities in this economy include a huge chance of social inclusion in terms of opportunities it can create. However, the need of the hour are leaders who believe in the possibilities for inclusion. Only an inclusive leader can support sustainability in its true essence. This is where empathy is relevant for a business leader in today’s business context.

We all are so well connected and we are impacted by the physical and emotional well-being of the people around us. We are conscious beings and like a drop of water in the ocean, we are capsules of universal consciousness having the same composition. We cannot afford to be a part of the problem, when we have the potential to create solutions to the problem. What with the downsides of climate change, rise in pandemics, technological changes approaching us faster with the potential of pushing many to unemployment and poverty, we cannot rely only on the United Nations, governments and corporates for action. Opportunities for work and for upskilling are the basic support anyone can offer to those who are in need of financial stability. Providing an eligible candidate with a job offer, helping someone in need with your reference or even a timely guidance can pull people in to safety and stability in these testing times. Your decision to start a small venture of your own is enough to impact many people towards inclusion. Merely your attitude and opinions towards inclusion can change lives. While you have the intellectual facilities within you, you will have to voice it out in order to practice fearless empathy. In this book we will see some examples of how your stand can impact the lives of your employees, friends or colleagues.

Apart from corporates who enthusiastically hire according to their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies, there are individuals around us who have taken extremely bold steps for inclusion. It could be your small-town shop vendor who employed a physically challenged person to handle the reception/accounts. Or it could be a social venture employing socially backward people. Such businesses have sustained only because their positive financial performance was coincident with inclusion. The Mitti Café chain across India provides experiential training and employment to adults with physical and intellectual disabilities.

In the field of innovation, merely by bringing forth ideas and novel technologies, many have indirectly encouraged inclusion. Such endeavours increase access to entertainment, education and information, by way of a mobile phone for the visually impaired, an audio book platform or a walking stick with sensors. The virtual assistant technology is very popular what with Alexa’s name on everyone’s lips as it reads us answers or Google translates which is a great language barrier breaker. Social initiatives like ‘Community Drum Jam’ facilitates interactive rhythm and music-based sessions for people of varied ethnic backgrounds as well as to promote harmonious co-existence. Popular Netflix series Emily in Paris is an example of how entertainment media is trying to spread awareness about inclusion.

Innovation, financial performance and employee productivity is the key for business growth. It has been reported that inclusion helps in achieving these objectives of business. So, why is that we are falling behind to meet these objectives in our businesses by incorporating inclusion? Why is everyone hesitant to make it practical and mainstream? This book explores the reasons of non-inclusion and the practices which helps organisations to achieve their business objectives through inclusion. The book also explores inclusion in depth and how one can incorporate its principles in their day-to-day activities.

Introduction

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too. ― Paulo Coelho

How do you perceive love?

Let us start with two stories of Love.

John uses hearing aids from a young age. Up to his 12th birthday, he hardly had any friends, didn’t like his school and was not performing well in academics. His parents decided to transfer him to a school with a diverse student community. Soon, John started making friends and had teachers who cared for him. He is a happy 8th grader now, loves to cycle to school with his friend and is performing well in school. His parents are