Make Work Fair & Speaking Up
To make work fair, you have to learn how to speak up. You have the power to make a positive impact in your workplace. In this week’s newsletter, global communication expert, Jessica Chen, chats with author of “Make Work Fair,” Siri Chilazi.
Below is a small snippet of their entire conversation held on our Soulcast Media Event show on LinkedIn.
If you’d like to watch or listen to the entire interview, click below. The transcript has been slightly edited for ease of reading.
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On Making Work Fair
Siri – One way to make work more fair is to try to become a Norm Entrepreneur. A norm entrepreneur is someone who shapes norms and expectations in a positive direction, creating the kind of culture you want to see.
Norms are those shared, but often unspoken, understandings of what kind of behavior is acceptable or expected.
A simple example could be navigating interruptions. Research shows that women are significantly more likely than men to get interrupted in meeting settings. So, you might become a norm entrepreneur to try to shift the norm away from interrupting and toward letting people finish respectfully by interrupting the interrupter next time.
So that’s one thing I think everyone can do, regardless of how fair their workplace is today, to start trying to nudge things in a more positive direction.
On Creating Positive Change
Siri – Look at the things you’re already doing and pick one thing that you could tweak slightly to make it more fair.
By changing your behavior, you can ignite a much bigger movement for change.
Jessica – This applies whether you’re a manager or not. You can present an idea, like this initiative, and maybe you’ll get told no the first time. Maybe you get told no the second time, or somebody says it’s not a good idea.
But it’s not about taking ‘no’ and just internalizing it, and maybe just forgetting about it. It’s thinking, how can I take this no, but maybe present it differently? Or bring it up at a different time or talk to a different person.
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