Integrating human dignity in your (global) team
Create a culture of human dignity
Target group: leaders of culturally diverse teams
In this two-day workshop, we support leaders in creating a team culture based on human dignity. Protecting inherent human dignity is not enough in order for team members to flourish. Putting human dignity at the core of leading culturally diverse teams requires more: respect and promotion of human dignity as an expression of authenticity. Curious leaders, who are able to recognize the tensions present between individual team members, and between team members and actors on different levels of the organization, are essential when aiming to integrate human dignity in a global team.
The experience of human dignity is not just universally human, it is also culturally specific and extremely personal. Although diversity characteristics on the individual level influence the experience of human dignity, it is a deeper level of diversity, based on different prioritization and substantiation of drives and values, that is key in addressing the differences present.
Tensions between organizational drives and values on the one hand, and drives and values important to team members on the other hand, cannot be resolved, but can be managed to protect, respect and promote human dignity. Managers can facilitate this process using reflective dialogues in their teams.
Facilitating such a dialogue successfully is a vital management skill. By tapping in to the collective wisdom of the team, all patterns can be acknowledged as valuable and expressed without judgment. Leaders and managers have a special role when it comes to creating a culture of human dignity. By facilitating reflective dialogues on the main tensions and dualities present, leaders can facilitate the process of creating a humanizing, inclusive and caring culture.
