Hello people,
Let's compensate for the three months sabbatical!
My first touch to the concept of leadership was in 2020 as a team leader of 6 doctors in final year of my residency , I clearly remember me getting overwhelmed, taking a time out to let it settle. There has not been any looking back after that. Overtime, I came across the LEAD-ER course by society of emergency medicine India in 2021 which discussed subtle changes in thought process to look at the problems through a different perspective. The course was extensive where concepts were given in bits and pieces over 1 month with online interaction followed by offline face to face workshop that extended over 2 days.
My curiosity towards thinking of a leader never ceased and I continued my research on how leaders think by following podcasts of world and business leaders to broaden my horizon.
One day, I stumbled upon this course by NHS Leadership academy that spoke about subtle biases we carry and face everyday.The preface caught my attention and now I wanted to do this course! Leadership Academy Core Managers: Inclusive leadership in healthcare .
The things that were taught were basic but you'll notice these have disappeared from our workplaces. Especially working in ED we deal with people of such diverse thought processes that it gets difficult to channelise.
Here are some excerpts from the course that lasted for 4 weeks. I made place for these ideas in a tiny area of my heart and brain to make it work in cohesion when I see a needful situation.
Understanding Social Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (SJEDI) is crucial for everyone, even if they are not directly impacted. As a leader, recognizing the significance of these issues is essential in managing and leading a diverse team.
Subtle things like asking where are you from , understanding the impact it can have on person on receiving end. Being a Hyderabadi who has done her primary, high school and even University from same city leaves me in a position of privilege . I unintentionally have asked so many people this question. I've been asked this as well. The perspective that was shared in this course left me thinking...Privilege is often invisible to those who have it as they do not necessarily feel or experience this privilege. Your life may not be easy, it is just that your privilegez but is not one of the things making it hard.
Asking someone where they are from may seem harmless, but it can have a detrimental effect on the person being asked. The words we use have the power to either uplift or damage others, so it's important to be mindful of our language.
Microaggressions are daily, often unintentional insults or slights that convey negative messages to people based on their marginalized group membership, leading to feelings of discrimination, inferiority, and exclusion.
I did sit down with myself to reflect n number of Microaggressions I experience and probably exhibit sometimes. Being mindful and logical towards such behaviours is a way out of them.
The most important takeaway being , the intent does not supersede impact.
To get comfortable rethinking much of what you thought to be true about the world and your workplace and accept that you have likely been complicit in producing inequity.
I think just like this modules , hospitals in India should have a module for the doctors , staff and executives to make clear what behaviour is okay and what is not to make the workplace inclusive!
So far so much!
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