Category Food For Thought
Shared on Instagram and archived here, this section highlights some of our favorite – and hopefully insightful – quotes that might inspire you to become a more inclusive communication professional.
“If you recognize that people with disabilities and the elderly can be part of your audience, then you must acknowledge that their needs will differ from those of other audience members.”
More details about Food For Thought #014“If you think an inclusive approach to communication is cost prohibitive, then you should look at what it costs your business to systematically exclude parts of your audience.”
More details about Food For Thought #013“Challenges for inclusion may be our responsibility to solve as professional communicators, but the weight of exclusion is ultimately borne by audience members alone.”
More details about Food For Thought #012“Inclusion is like driving a car… as long as everything runs smoothly, no one notices or cares. But when something breaks down, the entire experience quickly starts falling apart for those left behind.”
More details about Food For Thought #011“If your definition of diversity and inclusion doesn’t include catering to the needs and expectations of people with disabilities and the elderly, then you’re doing it wrong.”
More details about Food For Thought #010“The first step to becoming a truly inclusive communicator is to acknowledge diversity. Every single person needs some differentiation in some way, at some point, for some things.”
More details about Food For Thought #009“If you’re not explicitly leveraging strategies to include everyone in your audience, then you are implicitly excluding a large segment of that same audience.”
More details about Food For Thought #008“As professional speakers, trainers and communicators, we oftentimes have a misleading tendency to see our audience as nothing more than an extension of ourselves.”
More details about Food For Thought #007“When we craft our message to meet the needs and expectations of audience members living on the extremes of the bell curve, then those in the middle are naturally taken care of.”
More details about Food For Thought #006“Discarding some audience members’ experiences as edge cases implicitly defines the boundaries of who in your audience you actually care about.”
More details about Food For Thought #005“A one-size-fits-all delivery of your message will always end up denying part of your audience with fair and equal opportunities to truly learn, share, grow, and belong.”
More details about Food For Thought #004“To be truly inclusive, you must design your content for the extremes of the human experience, where your audience lives differently, thinks differently, and experiences differently.”
More details about Food For Thought #003“If you’ve designed your keynote, presentation or workshop to fit the average audience member, then I’m sorry to say, but in reality, you’ve essentially designed it to fit no one.”
More details about Food For Thought #002“We spend an awful lot of time crafting the delivery our message, but not nearly enough time thinking about how that message will be received by our audience members.”
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