From the course: Driving Change and Anti-Racism
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Maintaining focus
- So what I mean when I say maintaining focus is that when we are advocating for change in our companies, we need to make sure that we're focusing on the things that are most important. And in order to determine what's most important, we need to first take the time to prepare. We need to ask ourselves what's important to discuss right now, and what are the things that we should ignore, and then that can lead you to the creation of an effective agenda. And when you're creating that agenda, you send it to the other side and make sure that we're on the same page. Then what we're doing is once we start to get off topic, we redirect the conversation by asking a great open-ended question that is on topic. Now it's important to do this in a way that doesn't seem dismissive, because even though it might not be important for what you're hoping to accomplish in the conversation, it might be important for them to address. So we…
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