Allyship in Action

Knowing who you are as an ally is a journey. Want to be more inclusive?

This episode unpacks four proven methods to be inclusive:

• Challenge with Care

• Be a Mentor

• Step up as a Sponsor

• Coach to Success

In this pivotal 4th season, you will get a glimpse of our Lead Like an Ally program and book and walk away with tangible tools and strategies to be an even more inclusive leader.

Sign up for our complimentary 30-day preview of the new Lead Like an Ally program at LeadLikeAnAlly.com.

Inclusive leaders lead like allies. They are calm, cool, and collected when talking about diversity.

Want to lead like an ally? In this episode, you will learn how to:

• Challenge with Care

• Conduct Candid Conversations

• Give and Take Feedback - SBI Model

• Unpack Privilege

If you like this content, check out LeadLikeAnAlly.com to sign up for our complimentary 30-day preview of our new Lead Like an Ally program and get the new book, Lead Like an Ally.

Inclusive leaders lead like allies. They manage their behavior and influence the behavior of others.

Want to lead like an ally? In this episode, you will learn how to:

• Practice Empathy
• Strengthen Emotional Intelligence
• Be Vulnerable
• Seek to Understand

If you like this content, check out LeadLikeAnAlly.com to sign up for our complimentary 30-day preview of our new Lead Like an Ally program and get the new book, Lead Like an Ally.

Leaders that lead like allies are far more successful than those that do not practice inclusive leadership.

Self-awareness is a journey. And, it is the first and most critical to showing up as an ally for others. Want to be more inclusive?

This episode unpacks four proven methods to be inclusive:

• Know Your Ally Why
• Set Your Ally Vision
• Personal SWOT Analysis
• Activate Your Allyship Plan

In this pivotal first episode of our 4th season, you will get a glimpse of our Lead Like an Ally program and book and walk away with tangible tools and strategies to be an even more inclusive leader.

This week's podcast features my mentor and marketing expert, Lorraine Ball, founder of Roundpeg. Lorraine recently updated her organization's values with her team and shares her experience with me.

She asked her team, "who do you want to sit next to?" to help them craft specific values and behaviors to hold each other mutually accountable to. They have now become her hiring criteria and coaching standards. As Lorraine says, "values are a window into the soul of the person."

And, for those struggling to recruit and engage top talent, you just might be looking for an elusive unicorn. Think more about what values are critical to you and prioritize those over skills and industry knowledge that can be taught.

If your organization is creating or updating your values, we facilitate discussions and highly recommend this facilitation tool kit: https://www.story.solutions/store/the-values-deck

This week, we have a special guest, Amy Wright, Human Resources Leader at Milestone Corporation. She has experienced our "Engaging Men as Allies" talk in many venues and formats and gives a glimpse behind the curtain as to what happens throughout the ally journey.

As Amy shares her story of being with other HR professionals, her own leadership team, her full company, and then with women in the industry, the experiences differ and the learning evolves. She shares her take on being a mother to future allies, her struggle with pronouns, and how she utilizes the #flipittotestit tool to advocate for equality.

This week's hot topic podcast has a special guest, Gretchen Schott, VP of Learning and Development at TrueU. She has been an important ally to me personally, as well as in my business. Together, we share a story of a candid conversation we had together about gender and religion and tips on building inclusive cultures. In this episode, you will learn: - How to lean into brave conversations about equality - A history lesson on religion and gender differences - About the art of curiosity and its importance in being an ally Gretchen references the TrueU podcast "Make My People Better" with episodes to the founders of the organizations that are building inclusive work cultures. Learn more at TrueU at https://trueu.com, the Morales Group podcast at https://trueu.com/tom-seth-morales/, and Jasper Engines podcast at https://trueu.com/doug-zach-bawel/. The Skill up Build Up podcast by the Morales Group is at https://www.skillupbuildup.com/

This week, Lean In published a study in partnership with Survey Monkey on What Women Are Up Against At Work. What they found is an alarming 63% of men are uncomfortable working with women at work on basic tasks.

This is a problem. We need men and women to work together now more than ever.

In the post #metoo era, sexual harassment is still pervasive in organizations, while men think it is getting better at the same time women think it is getting worse.

This week's episode leans into this tough conversation with tools for actionable change.

We need #menasallies. We are stronger together. We are ONE.

See the full report here: https://leanin.org/sexual-harassment-backlash-survey-results

Flip it to test it video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq_xYSOZrgU

Today's hot topic came from an audience question in one of my talks this week.

What do you do when you have a non-ally?

While, I would argue many men are allies in training or want to be an ally, what do you do when they truly do not want to engage as an ally?

To address this, I explain what a microaggression is and why they matter, and share a framework for a candid conversation about bad behavior.

First, ask yourself, are they aware of the behavior? (likely not)

Second, is the behavior intentional? (again, likely not)

Then, help them become aware and/or realize their intentions do not match the perception.

Resist delaying this conversation, because if you do not say something, you are saying it is okay.

Netflix Documentary on Women in Politics is Getting Attention. At the start of 2019, women made unprecedented advances into politics in the United States. There was a 15% increase overnight in women in Congress than in 2018. Yet, the percentage of the total is only up from 20.6% to 23.7%.

The women that have joined are experiencing criticism, which may be perceived as gender bias. If men were to demonstrate this behavior, would it be okay?

And, the women that are joining are largely Democrats, many of which won on grass root campaigns. Is this what it will take to drive diversity in politics?

These questions and more covered in this week's episode.

Netflix Special Article: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pdominguez/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-knock-down-house-netflix

Statistics on Women in Congress:

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/04/678227272/what-it-looks-like-to-have-a-record-number-of-women-in-the-house-of-representatitch?v=Bq_xYSOZrgUv=Bq_xYSOZrgU

Flip It to Test It Ted Talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq_xYSOZrgU