These habits are not something you react to, but instead things you go do and model. Because these training perspectives emphasize reacting to others rather than being proactive their real value is diminished.Ĭonversely, Inclusive intelligence requires you to be Fair, Open, Cooperative, Supportive, and Empowering. While all these various types of initiatives mean well, they have limited value toward real change. In many social circles and places where I speak or teach, I always get asked, what’s next after diversity and inclusion? Or, we taught the New IQ course…now what? And when I ask what they think should come next, it’s usually some combination of Emotional Intelligence, personality assessments such as Myers Briggs, or some form of unconscious bias training usually centered around generations. So, how does inclusive intelligence help? Reach out, beyond your immediate neighbors. If you’re all triangles, you’re missing out on some amazing squares in your life - that’s unfair to everyone. Your friends, your colleagues, that conference you’re attending. If small biases created the mess we’re in, small anti-biases might fix it. Creating equality is like staying clean: it takes work. Your bedroom floor doesn’t stop being dirty just coz you stopped dropping food all over the carpet. When someone says a culture is shapist, they’re not saying the individuals in it are shapist. Small individual bias → Large collective bias.

So how can you reduce bias in your organization, community, or school? The authors provide 3 thoughts below:ġ. And even if they have no intention of being biased the impact of their actions leads to a biased result. Why? Because what your neighbors do also matters. To illustrate this the creators of the simulation game infused it with interactive features where users can adjust levels of individual action to produce a more integrated neighborhood.Įven if you want to reduce bias almost to zero, it still does not produce an integrated neighborhood. In other words, segregated societies, organizations, and schools can become segregated even if no individual within those ensembles wants it to happen. A couple of friends one day decided that they wanted to create an interactive way to illustrate the non-intuitive way in which segregated societies can arise independent of individual biases.

Collective bias