Read: Chapters 7 & 8 in your textbook.
Read: Challenges to Achieving Diversity.
Watch: Barriers to Workplace Diversity and Inclusion (10:13).
Think about: Your lived experiences with diversity and inclusion.
Assignment Read, watch, and ponder the resources above, and think about a time you have personally experienced a barrier in your organization or an organization in your past.
Keeping confidences, please use your discussion post to tell classmates about that time while answering the following questions:
What were the circumstances?
What were the specific barriers that hindered you?
How did you feel/what did you think about these barriers?
Read your classmates’ posts with empathy and respect, then purposefully reflect on what your classmates are sharing about barriers they’ve experienced.
Respond to at least two classmates’ posts with supportive, encouraging, or commiserating comments that demonstrate positive intent, authentic listening, and understanding.
