Getting Real About Inclusive Leadership (Report)
Executive summary
While you may be confident in your ability to deliver on business goals, creating a cohesive team where everyone is excited to contribute and innovate can be more challenging. Building an inclusive team culture is key. Catalyst surveyed over 2,100 employees at large corporations — most of whom worked in one of eight countries across five continents — to look deeply at drivers of inclusion. Our findings show that a manager’s behavior has a direct link to an employee’s experience of inclusion — in fact, almost half of an employee’s experience of inclusion can be explained by managerial inclusive leadership behaviors.
And what are the manager behaviors that predict inclusion? We tested that, too — and we uncovered a model of inclusive leadership that balances both leading outward and leading inward.
Leading outward is what you do to ensure team members are treated fairly, empowered, and able to flourish.
Leading inward requires a hard look at who you are and your inner ability to act courageously, learn, and self-reflect.