If you don't agree on everything, the set can actually be a very key figure in how team dynamics work. All of those are opportunities to become aware of, develop, maybe even to some extent. Practice and promote awareness and understanding.
As you move forward with your diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, let me wish you a happy new year. I want you to practice and promote awareness and understanding. If you don't agree on everything, the set can actually be a very key figure in how team dynamics work.
And so, as you think about awareness, what does awareness look like? Do you have spots that you know may be a little out of sight for you? All of those are opportunities to become aware of, develop, maybe even to some extent. Practice and promote awareness and understanding.
Good afternoon Cadre community doctor e here, your resident Dei conversationist, practitioner, and hopefully at this point, colleague, as you move forward with your diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, before anything else, let me wish you a happy new year. I hope 2024 brings you all of the joy, all of the blessings, all of the goals and accomplishments that you hope to achieve. And I have no doubt that as you pursue each and every one of those, you will be on the right path to make them happen, bring them to fruition and watch them manifest as you move forward.
So Happy New year to each and every one of you and I hope you all enjoy 2024. Now, the DEI challenge that I have for you. Are you ready? I want you to practice and promote awareness and understanding, however you need to do that. Hey, Chris, how you doing? Happy New Year, my friend. However you do that starts with yourself, starts with your colleagues and your teams, and then hopefully moves forward and permeates into your organization. Why am I saying practice, awareness and understanding? I am saying practice, awareness and understanding to get us out of this shell of agreement.
That agreement is the standard and the premium. We don't have to agree on everything. Chances are we won't agree on everything. Our experiences are different, our backgrounds are different, our perspectives are different. All of that difference is actually an opportunity to begin to understand and become more aware and hopefully enhance our own experiences and perspectives in ways that we wouldn't normally do if we didn't practice awareness and understanding. So think about that as you move forward with 2024.
You don't necessarily have to have a premiums or a standard set on agreement. In fact, I think it may be an opportunity and a blessing. If you don't agree on everything, the set can actually be a very key figure in how team dynamics work. And so if you can push yourself, your colleagues, your teams, your organizations to become more aware, more self aware and more externally aware, and how that leads to understanding can be a great asset to team building dynamics, can be a great growth mechanism, and can obviously serve as a personal and professional development opportunity.
And so, as you think about awareness, what does awareness look like? Do you have spots that you know may be a little out of sight for you? Do you have maybe some rough areas that you don't really delve into because you may be a little bit apprehensive, you don't want to say the wrong thing, you don't want to do the wrong thing. You don't want to appear as if you don't know or if you aren't knowledgeable, particularly if you're in a role where folks think you should know from a leadership standpoint, all of those are opportunities to become aware of, develop, maybe even to some extent, you know, share that self awareness of, you know, I don't really have tons of experience dealing with this.
I may not even know how to deal with this. You may have to help me. Let's walk this journey together. What can that look like? All of those become collaborative opportunities of engagement, which I think really, really, really, really leads to great, great organizational culture, great leadership, and then obviously great dynamics within your departments and your teams. So again, practice and promote awareness and understanding. And as you do that, hopefully the conversations will increase. Hopefully the exchanges will be bountiful and more robust, and then hopefully the growth and development will become so, so visible that you can't help but understand and begin to become more aware.
So I'm Doctor E. Happy New year to you and I will see you next week.
