Welcome to Intentional Conversations, where we intersect diversity, equity, and inclusion with leadership and business.

This week we welcomed Yolanda Webb to Intentional Conversations!

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KEY TAKEAWAYS:

• Attention is a choice. Intention is a choice.
• Attention bias is being very selective about what you’re focusing on.
• What you focus your attention on is what is going to be the outcome.
• At the end of the day, when you go to bed, recall every single thing you did. It helps you to redirect your attention.
• The debate is not that DEI is wrong, the debate are the letters.
• I don’t chose to give time and energy to the people who have said this has no value.
• The opposite of courage is not cowardice, but compromise.
• Goodwill is measurable. It is selective attention.
• Small acts of goodwill refocuses our attention. The folx who don’t agree with me, now see my humanity.
• So much of our attention is internal and it needs to be more external.
• Tools we can use to change our attention to focus on something new:
• Embrace your vulnerability and your authenticity.
• Expand your view. Look at new resources, listen to something new.
• We have to focus on the small stuff!
• Purpose driven culture - The final decision should rest with you, but the decision making shouldn’t rest with you. All of your people should have a voice in any decision making.
• Purpose driven - I already know when I start my day what I want my outcomes to be, that’s purpose driven.
• Helping your team internally to get to the outcomes externally you want, if your team is unhappy internally you will not get to the external outcome you want.
• Performance evaluations is not an evaluation of your culture.
• Where do I need to create space for growth? We can only grow when we are self aware and vulnerable. The first place we show up vulnerable is to ourselves. But often times our ego gets in the way of the vulnerability.

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