Episode
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DEI, Engagement, and Org Health with Julie Diamond
Diamond Leadership was founded by Julie Diamond, Ph.D., executive coach, international leadership consultant, and author of Power: A User’s Guide. For over 25 years Julie has been at the forefront of creating transformational learning and leadership solutions across a range of sectors and disciplines. Julie’s research and work with leaders has focused on the problems of power- the ways power is expressed and how it impacts culture, decision making, and leadership ability. Her passion is to help leaders not only be their best but be able to bring out the best in the people they lead.
In this episode we discuss:
- The connection between power and culture.
- How it is actions and relationships determine your culture, not what you proclaim it to be.
- How culture should ultimately be defined.
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Interview excerpts:
The connection between power and culture depends on how you talk, treat and work with each other in situations where someone has a higher rank in an organization
“Culture can be defined by the worst behavior tolerated. How do people treat the lowest ranking member of your organisation, that's a picture of your culture.”
You cannot lose focus of lower and middle management, their practice needs to be strong or it may have implications on the wider business.
“There was a lot of turnover of Black employees in a certain organisation…they were not getting the support they needed but it was due to a lack of attention on the lower and middle levels of management”
Forward thinking companies and strong leaders will use information and feedback from staff and clients to improve their practices and that of their wider team.
“Leaders are architects of culture…we can measure company satisfaction when it comes to DEI and feedback on that on how leaders’ behaviors can impact that..”
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