From the course: Awareness to Action: Level Up as a DEI Change Agent in Your Organization
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Amplify the voices of others
From the course: Awareness to Action: Level Up as a DEI Change Agent in Your Organization
Amplify the voices of others
- There's an experience I had years ago that has stuck with me to this day. I was in a meeting one Friday morning with two of my colleagues who happened to be white males. During our discussion, one of my colleagues kept interrupting me. He'd ask a question, and when I started to answer, he'd cut me off to share his own thoughts. It was frustrating to me that he kept interrupting me but I didn't feel like pointing it out since he was in a more senior role. After yet another interruption, my other colleague stopped him and said, "I think Janice was saying something. Can we go back to what she was saying?" I share this story often because it's not what was said but how that made me feel. In that moment, I felt seen and validated. It would have been easy to just continue the meeting and let my coworker keep interrupting me. But with that statement, my colleague used his voice at that seemingly insignificant moment to…
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