You can check out my personal response to this question by watching this video!

Additionally, Northhouse (2022) provides five key principles of ethical leadership, as I have outlined below:

1. Respects others

2. Serves others

3. Shows justice

4. Manifests honesty

5. Builds community

To me, manifesting honesty is most important in being an ethical leader because it shows that you have a sense of transparency and that you see things as they are, from a realistic perspective.

Bias in the workplace can be seen as a bad habit. Grant (2021) offers a unique way to tackle this issue with a particular focus on behavior change, or habit training. He suggests developing an action plan with three key focus areas:

1. How to advance diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

2. How to be a change agent in the workplace.

3. Be held accountable in following this plan.

What's the plan? It's simple - Grant offers these suggestions:

1. Recognize stereotypes and practice different responses. It's best to continually monitor what triggers biases and to continually choose a new response to these biases.

2. Make a plan for creating and maintaining this new habit. Doing this helps overcome the sense of futility and uncertainty when first adopting this new approach. Additionally, this helps prevent falling into old routines. Of course this isn't easy - it involves practice and repetition.

The podcast offers valuable insight into additional topics, such as large-scale and longer bias training, alternate ways to combat organizational biases (e.g., virtual town halls, Courageous Conversations program, mentoring programs, and the need for a multi-year commitment in fighting systemic biases. Give it a listen!