• How can the identification of your core values help you to learn and grow on both personal and professional levels?
• How can YOU learn from the experiences and perspectives shared by your classmates?

You identified and shared your five core values in the Module 1 discussion board learning activity. This assignment requires you to reflect on your own personal core values and think back to your own life experiences in the workplace, sharing both positive and negative work-related experiences with your classmates.

If you have not had much work experience, or if you never had a job, think about another experience in which you observed effective employee or team-based learning processes and whether the experience was clear (or was not!) that diversity, equity and inclusion were important factors in the organizational culture or group dynamic.

GUIDELINES

Follow the guidelines listed in the grading rubric for written content as you address each of the questions below in this discussion board post.

1. Choose an experience that you observed in a work setting, one in which the organizational culture was one in which diversity, equity, and inclusion were valued. This type of culture is one that appreciates diverse individuals with diverse perspectives. Employees are valued and appreciated. Leadership and management is supportive, effective employee processes are implemented and it is obvious that diversity is an important factor in the organizational culture, including leadership positions. For example, were employees productive? Did they stay with the organization for long periods of time? Did your leaders, managers or supervisors serve as good examples for their employees?
2. Now,choose an experience in which you noticed poor leadership, discrimination or other processes that were inefficient or ineffective. For example, were workplace policies fair to all employees, regardless of gender, race, age or sexual orientation? Were equal pay for equal performance policies implemented? (Keep in mind that often, we can learnimportant lessonsfrom those people whom we never want to emulate, or follow their example!)
3. For each of the experiences above in questions #1 and #2, list two "lessons learned" that you believe contributed to your personal growth and professional development. Why did you choose these lessons, and how do you plan to incorporate these lessons in your future career?