Have you ever attended a meeting where you had something to say but didn’t? Maybe told yourself weren’t assertive enough because you just didn’t take the only chance to speak when there was that 2 second pause in conversation.
Now think about your last retrospective. Who spoke? Who didn't? What if some people stayed silent not because they had nothing to say, but because the room wasn't designed to enable them to let them in?
We talk a lot about psychological safety in teams and it matters. But it isn't the whole picture. Your teams have such a wide variety of brains! Thinking style, neurodiversity, culture and personality all shape who feels able to contribute.
Lack of empathy for people who don’t think like us can lead to burnout for those people as they try desperately to adapt to a world that was created by someone who isn’t like them.
The goal of this workshop isn’t to become 100% inclusive. It's to be just a little more inclusive than you were yesterday.
You'll leave with practical facilitation techniques that work across those different brains, backgrounds and personalities as well as the ability to advocate both for your own needs and for the people in your room who aren't speaking yet.