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Is swapping stories of kids the women's version of a golf game? A way to bond?

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Bring diverse people that don't always agree. Focus on professional. Keep decision to criteria.

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There needs to consideration of ideas as to how a "safe place" can be established so that perspectives may be heard without putting the speaker in jeopardy.

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Make sure you are the example of what you would like to see happen throughout your organization.

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Layout tasks early on, reduce burden on those that are overworked. Make sure everyone is pulling their weight.

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Before you enter a meeting set goals.

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Be bold to invite leaders to a discussions a about diversity.

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Use your expertise so as not to stifle others. 

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Use your expertise so as not to stifle others. 

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Realize who will be impacted and at least include those people in the discussions for decisions.

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Success doesn't need to be guaranteed; we just want to make sure that diverse voices are included.

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More brainstorming and leave time for the decision making process.

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Let the least powerful person be the leader and make the decision.

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Transparency.

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People feel disconnected because decisions are made without communication across the organization.

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Just make decision without full buy in

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Takes time, slow but worth it

Likewise diversity and conflict feel slower but work better

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Need buy-in from leaders.

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Be deliberate and intentional about inclusiveness.

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It pays dividends to invest time in pushing decisions/gathering input from the lowest level possible (regrettable terminology) This builds decision-making capacity and team morale.

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It pays dividends to invest time in pushing decisions/gathering input from the lowest level possible (regrettable terminology) This builds decision-making capacity and team morale.

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Sometimes there is a pretense of transparency but it is clear that the decision has already been made and the "discussion" is just to say there was a discussion.  This doesn't sit well -- you would rather not to have been included in the farce.

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If you are always included you may not understand need for diversity in your organization. 

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If you are always included you may not understand need for diversity in your organization. 

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Be sincere about inclusiveness.

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It can be hard to onboard new people...so maybe partner with other units or offices so they know a lot about what your office does (so you can keep working with people who know what you do)

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It can be hard to onboard new people...so maybe partner with other units or offices so they know a lot about what your office does (so you can keep working with people who know what you do)

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Promoting women's voices in decision making http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_57d94d9fe4b0aa4b722d79fe/amp

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It helps to have a team of both visionaries and people who are good at executing

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It can be difficult to reconcile the ideas and approaches of people who've been here 2 yrs with those who've been here 45 yrs

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It can be difficult to reconcile the ideas and approaches of people who've been here 2 yrs with those who've been here 45 yrs

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One possible approach might be to have a brainstorming session with appropriate ground rules (like not shooting things down), and then see what the department thinks rises to the too

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Diversity has to start from the top.

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Leaders should make it possible to make anonymous recommendations. 

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Leaders should make it possible to make anonymous recommendations. 

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We need to include diverse perspectives early. Fast decision making is not always best and slow is not always wrong.

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Challenge: A barrier to be inclusive is when people resist being included in the decision making process.
Challenge: When people who are charged with diversity don't have the power to execute

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Having transparency is important. *Need to reach out to other entities outside of our university for ideas. *How do we invite women to speak up if they feel they aren't valued? *Can we overcome loud and aggressive sessions by having smaller groups that then share? *Include agendas that allow people time to prepare and deal with different participation models in individuals. *Get people invested and value all. *Seek out a diverse perspective from someone outside prior to a decision meeting.

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Need to create a safe space for expression of diverse perspectives.

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Be bold and kindly redirect dominant voices to make room for other perspectives!

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Sometimes we pay attention to certain aspects of diversity (like race), without considering other factors (like age, region, etc)

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Sometimes we pay attention to certain aspects of diversity (like race), without considering other factors (like age, region, etc)

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Sometimes we try to correct a lack of diverse perspectives by making certain requirements (for committee work, etc), which ends up overburdening some

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Sometimes we try to correct a lack of diverse perspectives by making certain requirements (for committee work, etc), which ends up overburdening some

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Invited someone to take on the role of resenting the added dimension.

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If diverse perspectives are not available? Ask someone to attempt to provide another perspective (example: all women team 

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If diverse perspectives are not available? Ask someone to attempt to provide another perspective (example: all women team 

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People of different status are not having influence even though thy are being affected by the decision.

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International diversity is an important dimension of decision making.

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It is nice to have a voice even if ultimately your ideas are not implemented.

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Decisions may be made with a lack of transparency (behind the scenes machinations), so it's hard to know or tell what (if any) diverse perspectives are included in the process. 

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Decisions may be made with a lack of transparency (behind the scenes machinations), so it's hard to know or tell what (if any) diverse perspectives are included in the process. 

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Also, sometimes there is pushback when asking some to be involved in the decision making process
being an "other" can also lead to pushback when offering perspectives

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Different groups have different ratios, different types of diversity, different processes
We need to bring the underrepresented voice to the table and make it heard, even if that means we are the conduit for voices

It depends who the stakeholders affected by the decision are
Perspective can matter but personality may get in the way
Do not wear out your diversity
Structured meetings to give everyone equal thinking time

Decision makers connected with dreamers to make the bold steps
Let's not add for the diversity checkmark  the diversity person
Change the way we usually run the meetings to get a different kind of voice , start with one set of meetings, don't do it with all at the same time
Research data needs to be brought to the table
What if you have a big open meeting with some structure and anyone can come

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Office geography comes into play
Geography of where our university is located also affects discussions
The diversity can grow

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Much of the university is run top down but also everyone for themselves

Counter perspective: if leader knows they have to make the call, feel responsible

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Some decisions feel disjointed in the current workplace. Timing can be difficult and sometimes it feels like the decision has already been made and we work hard to help decide but our input is ignored

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Some decisions feel disjointed in the current workplace. Timing can be difficult and sometimes it feels like the decision has already been made and we work hard to help decide but our input is ignored

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We have to look at diversity holistically otherwise we end up not being inclusive by only address one aspect of diversity.

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