Community Guidelines

By participating in an Institute for Inclusion Certification program, including your activity on the Mighty Networks community, you are agreeing to abide by the Institute for Inclusion Community Guidelines. 

R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Respect each other. Even if you hold a different perspective than a fellow DEI practitioner, treat each other with respect and seek to understand one another. We hope it goes without saying, but let’s refrain from profanity or explicit content.

Play your part: Contribute. In our Institute for Inclusion community, DEI practitioners seek to contribute their expertise while also seeking advice from peers. The act of contributing can feel daunting, especially in a virtual space. DEI practitioners who thrive here know that it’s worth taking the risk because chances are, your contribution may spark a realization or a-ha moment from someone else. The more you share, the more likely you are to make connections, and the more likely you will receive help.

Be prepared for your course:  Make sure to complete any assignments, including watching all pre-work videos, lectures, and assignments.  Everything is designed to facilitate and accelerate your learning during the live sessions.  While we will not cover pre-work lectures to be fair to the students that prepared for the course, we are happy to answer any clarifying questions.

Keep it confidential: All information shared in this community is confidential unless otherwise stated. This rule applies to everyone’s content, including Institute for Inclusion-owned content, even if it is shared in a public channel.

Share your content, and care for others’: We expect all DEI practitioners to respect the intellectual property rights of Institute for Inclusion staff and fellow DEI practitioners. If a DEI practitioner shares their content in a public channel, do not modify, publish, transmit, reverse engineer, or in any way exploit the content, and pass it off as your own. Let’s recognize the wisdom and work of our peers, and please give credit and attribution to the DEI practitioner. This also applies to Institute for Inclusion’s content including slides, documents, and videos.

Steer clear of spam: Support one another. Nothing feels better than having your peers back you and an endeavor you’re passionate about. Many DEI practitioners in this community have services/products they want to promote, but let’s use the community as a place to celebrate course milestones, ask for feedback related to the certification, partner with each other to cross-connect outside of the program.