We hope to get useful data about what people in various roles in diverse organizations feel about the Vision and the Principles of Inclusion, and to use their feedback for creative brainstorming at our March Conference.
While we can't predict exactly what this will lead to in 2008, based on last year's conference, we're going to get some great ideas about how to move Inclusion forward into the world. The Test Drive will be the training wheels, but if we get the kind of response I'm hoping we can get, next year we'll be taking the training wheels off and "flying" on our own! Pardon the mixed metaphors!!
You can find the Principles on our home page, or check them out below!
The Inclusion Principles serve as a Covenant for individuals, organizations, communities and institutions - locally and globally - to realize the Vision of Inclusion as a foundation of their world view and behaviors.
By adopting these Principles, we commit our energy and resources to co-creating a positive, interdependent future that brings this vision to life.
The Inclusion Principles are a living document that evolves as we work to make them a reality.
We will:
- Build a foundation of respect, fairness, justice, and equity.
- Recognize and broaden the spectrum of human differences as a source of strength.
- Enhance our individual and collective competence to collaborate across cultures and groups.
- Build systems, processes, and procedures that support and sustain inclusion.
- Bring individuals’ talents, skills and perspectives together to complement and enrich each other.
- Promote interdependence as essential to adapting to changing work, environmental and societal conditions.
- Foster teamwork to yield higher levels of productivity, creativity and results.
- Learn and continue to grow from living the Inclusion Principles.
- Ensure those impacted by decisions are systematically included in the dialogue.
- Report progress and learning in applying the Inclusion Principles.
