Diversity And Inclusion Flashcards
What makes an effective team?
- Common purpose
- Clear understanding of objectives
- Being respectful
- Valuing all members and understanding strengths and weaknesses
What makes a diverse team?
A wide range of individuals diverse in relation to culture, gender, race, age, education, background
What are the advantages of a diverse team?
- different ideas and ways of thinking
- Different backgrounds and experiences
- Add to employer brand and company culture
Can you define your understanding of inclusion in the workplace?
All individuals treated fairly and respectfully, have equal access to opportunities, and can contribute to the organisations success
What is the difference between diversity and inclusion?
- diversity of the characteristics and things that make us all different
- Inclusion is making everybody feel welcome and respected
What is meant by unconscious bias?
Unconscious bias is the underlying attitudes and stereotypes that people have towards another person or group of people, that affect how they engage with that person group
What does it mean when someone says “ equal opportunity”?
Ensuring everybody has an equal chance to pursue an opportunity
What is meant by being prejudice?
- prejudice means pre-judging someone or a group of people
- It is making an assumption, or having an opinion, about someone based on who they are
What is teamwork?
A group of people working together towards a common goal
What are the benefits of teamwork?
- shared workload
- Improved productivity
- Can increase motivation
- utilise different skill sets and strengths
How would you go about selecting the right people for a team?
- Understanding the task at hand
- Reviewing the existing team to understand skills and expertise
- Selecting new team members to fill the shortfall of skill and experience
How would you deal with an inexperienced team member?
- Provide encouragement and motivation
- Give constructive feedback
- Support where they need
How would you promote working as a team in an efficient and effective way?
- have in person meetings for lengthier discussions
- Ensure regular communication
- Have regular check-in with managers
- Encourage all parties to be involved
- Create a calm, approachable environment that everyone feels they can speak in
Why might a team fail?
- Poor selection of team members
- Inadequate resource
- Conflicting personalities
- Poor leadership
- Similar skill sets
How would you go about establishing a collaborative approach on a scheme?
-Ensure communications are established, such as project extranets and team channels
- Ensure regular meetings are conducted
- Ensure a schedule of team members is distributed to know who to contact
- Ensure meetings are organised regularly, and have clear structures to fulfil its purpose
How would you make sure communications are inclusive for all members of the team?
- Make communications verbally and non-verbal (phone calls, emails etc)
- Gender neutral language
- Understand individual needs, for example, Neurodivergent persons may need specific goals, dates and tasks
- make communications available in a variety formats, such as braille or through sign language
Are you aware of Tuckman theory? Can you explain what this is?
- Tuckmans Theory focuses on the way a team tackles a task through to completion
- Tasks include:
Forming - specify goals
Storming - conflicts & negotiation
Norming - consensus & team spirit
Performing - complete
Adjourning - feedback & disperse
What is project partnering?
project partnering is the collaborative approach between contracting parties on a project
Project partnering focuses on the ownership of risk and ensuring its equally and fairly spread between parties
What are some of the benefits and drawbacks of strategic alliance / partnering?
Advantages:
- Know what the client wants
- Reduces the likelihood of conflict
- Improved communication and customer satisfaction
- Can be used for standard building sets, eg Tesco stores
Disadvantages :
- Difficult to find a strong partner with the same objectives, ethics and attitudes
What is the difference between leadership and management in teamwork?
- Leadership = setting new direction or vision for the group
- Management = controls or direct people according to principles or values that have already been established
What is meant by team dynamics in the workplace?
Team dynamics describe the behavioural relationships between members of a group
The dynamic is how they interact, communicate and cooperate with one another
How can you improve team dynamics?
- Know your team and understand their motivation
-Tackle problems quickly with positive feedback - Define roles and responsibilities
- breakdown down barriers
