How do you create an organizational culture that encourages people to show up as their authentic selves?
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We have been leveraging mentorship programs. We just launched a mentorship platform that helps us make those connections. As part of the registration questions, we ask a question about if they want their affiliation with any of these diversity groups to play a role in your matching of who you might get mentored with? What we’ve found is that there's so many people in our organization that are looking for their representation in different diversity groups, whether it's a transgender person, a military veteran, somebody with a disability or somebody from our black community; they're saying, “hey look, I want that to be a factor in my mentorship.” That allows us to connect other people that are maybe going through the same thing, or have already gone through the same thing, to help.
At the end of the day, it's about psychological safety. To me, authenticity means bringing your most honest self to the company.
By creating a welcoming environment that allows them to have a voice.
Authenticity has always been something I've thought about and strive for. But now I ask myself, what does that even mean for me? I think, as a leader, you constantly need to go on this self-reflective journey to be a good role model for your team.
You need to first make it part of your leadership profile. Ensure that you value authentic leadership, and do not tolerate behaviors that are not aligned with that. You then have to translate that into action which is something that we did. Having accessibility and building proximity directly between the top management and the employees has also encouraged authenticity at our organization.