Your team member's beliefs clash with your community campaign message. How will you navigate this challenge?
Dive into the dilemma: How would you balance personal beliefs and a community message?
Your team member's beliefs clash with your community campaign message. How will you navigate this challenge?
Dive into the dilemma: How would you balance personal beliefs and a community message?
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I would have a private, respectful conversation with the team member to understand their perspective and share the campaign's goals, aiming to find common ground. If needed, I’d suggest alternative roles where they can contribute without conflicting with their personal beliefs, maintaining team cohesion and respect.
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The best thing to do is figure out what is at the core of everyone’s beliefs, and go from there. Some people may have the same core values but different ideas about how to implement them. A community message that is flexible enough to incorporate multiple solutions (provided they are reputable and proven) is a way to do forward.
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I believe communities are similar to puzzles. Each community thrives due to the individuality (individual pieces) it contains; those pieces look different for each community though. That is to say a piece that fits in this puzzle will not fit in the next per se. Cultural competence and cultural humility are rooted in tolerance which also assumes acceptance and empathy. To change how to think about the scenario you have to appreciate the outcome of what your doing and why you are doing it; judgment must fall to the way side if you are truly there to help the community. Otherwise you may let yourself get in the way of your efforts to help and end up hindering. If you end up being too conflicted because it breaks core beliefs, step back.
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