Building Community

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Behaves in ways that contribute to creating an environment of belonging.

Utilize self-awareness to identify and mitigate bias on personal, relational, and process levels.
Assume positive intent.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Suspend judgement and stay in a state of curiosity.
Work to understand and respect values, attitudes, beliefs, and mores that differ from my own.

Drive results at the cost of collaboration/relationships/community.
Act from a place of unexamined bias and do not ask questions or seek to understand others’ perspectives.
Act in ways that are consistently perceived as difficult to collaborate with or unapproachable.
Detract from Nightingale Mission/Vision/Pathway by pushing my personal agenda.
(Overuse) Mistake a lack of conflict for kindness or avoid productive conflict.
(Overuse) Ostracize or criticize those who are earlier in their self-awareness and inclusion journeys or expect perfection from others.