3.
You’re an active member of your company’s ERGs (employee resource groups) and various company-led diversity and
inclusion initiatives. You’ve noticed recently that when your team is celebrating its accomplishments, only white men are
being recognized. You’re in a team meeting, and Fred, a white gay identified man is congratulated for his promotion, but
Gazelle, a black woman, who was also promoted, is not? What are your next steps?
A.
A) At the next meeting, you add an item to the agenda that calls for the celebration of each team members’ successes in
the past week.
B.
B) After the meeting, you find Gazelle to congratulate her on her promotion and to lament that her success was not
acknowledged in the meeting.
C.
C) In the next ERG meeting you attend, you voice that POCs and women are not being acknowledged for their
accomplishments and suggest that the next meeting be centered around giving advice on how to advocate for yourself
to receive the acknowledgement you deserve.
D.
D) You organize a few of your team members who have also noticed a pattern of POC’s and women’s accomplishments
not being celebrated and set up a meeting with your team lead. Together, you explain to him why the way meetings are
being run is exclusionary, offer suggestions on how to make meetings inclusive, and demand that a change be
implemented by the next meeting.
E.
E) You collaborate with the Director of Operations to create and implement a company-wide meeting agenda template
that gives each team member the opportunity to share their accomplishments at each meeting.