Welcome back.
Leading a project team comes with the responsibility to create a psychologically
safe environment for the people around you.
Through ethical and inclusive leadership, you can create a team culture that
works for everyone and motivates the people around you to do their best work.
In this video, you'll learn the definitions of ethical and
inclusive leadership.
You'll also learn about the importance of fostering a culture of respect, creating
equal opportunity to succeed, and ways to invite and integrate diverse perspectives.
So what do ethical and inclusive leadership entail in a team and
organization?
Let's start with ethical leadership.
Ethical leadership is a form of leadership that promotes and values honesty,
justice, respect, community and integrity.
You promote ethical leadership by defining and aligning values within your team and
demonstrating how adhering to those values benefits the mission of the organization.
For an example of this, consider how work culture has evolved in recent years.
Around the world, employees working for organizations of all kinds have
been calling on their employers to adopt ethical policy changes and
to state their positions on current events.
Companies can demonstrate ethical leadership by creating forums where
employees can raise their viewpoints, be heard and
receive follow-ups from company leaders on employee concerns.
Ethical leadership is closely tied to inclusive leadership.
If ethical leadership's aim is to create forums where employees' concerns can be
heard, inclusive leadership aims to put what we've heard into action to create
an environment that encourages.
And empowers each and every member of our community.
That in turn leads to more innovation and better solutions.
Here's how we think about inclusion here at Google.
Inclusive leadership is when everyone's unique identity, background and
experiences are respected, valued and integrated into how the team operates.
These differences improve the team culture, collaboration,
innovation and output.
Inclusive leadership is related to diversity in that diversity is the set of
differences each of us possesses, whether visible or
invisible that gives us each a unique perspective on the world and our work.
Inclusion is what the team does with that diversity of thought and perspective.
At Google, we've identified three ways that managers can lead inclusively.
These include fostering a culture of respect, creating equal
opportunity to succeed and inviting and integrating diverse perspectives.
To foster a culture of respect, it's your job as a project manager to
serve as a role model, set the tone for the team and take action when needed.
That means modeling the values of your organization,
taking appropriate action if misconduct occurs.
Creating an environment in which team members feel comfortable speaking up
with concerns, and recognizing team contributions regularly.
To create equal opportunity to succeed, you should ensure that each person on
the team has access to the information and resources they need to do their best work.
You do this through regular communication, accessible documentation, and
regular check-ins with the team to listen, share information, ask and
answer questions and provide support.
As a project manager,
you're in the perfect spot to identify work that might be a good fit for
a person who really wants it, but who shies away from asking for it.
Knowing an individual's aspirations will help you highlight these opportunities.
Finally, to invite and integrate diverse perspectives,
it's your role to cultivate a culture in which each team member's perspective can
be openly shared, heard and integrated into work related decisions.
You do this by creating a sense of psychological safety on the team and
by inviting teammates to share their thoughts, ideas and concerns,
regardless of their role or rank on the team.
Developing ethical and
inclusive leadership skills requires regular practice.
So whether you're leading a project team of two, or 20, or
200, you should be diligent in building up your inclusive leadership skill
set by creating an environment in which your team feels safe, heard and valued.
You can do this by fostering a culture of respect, creating equal opportunity to
succeed and inviting and integrating diverse perspectives.
In the next lesson, we'll discuss the fundamentals of influencing, as well as
some common mistakes that people make when attempting to influence others.
Meet you in the next video.