Over the last 12 months Serious Woo has been facilitating A LOT of workshops around courageous conversations. (Over 40 for the data hungry 😄).
The struggles are real. Lots of stories about being excluded at work, in all sorts of terribly different ways.
Often there is a reluctance to come forward because
The wrongdoer has behaved in this way for a long time (and people worked around them)
The behaviours seems “trivial” in isolation and people don’t want to appear weak
There is a fear that reporting such behaviours will make the situation worse.
Co-creating team norms gives colleagues the opportunity to create a set of agreements around how their team will collaborate and function.
This process gives a team a shared language around the behaviours they want to see and more confidence to call out inappropriate behaviours.
Spending time as a team doing this process can be FUN and has many benefits - as identified by the Diversity Council of Australia below.
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