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Be your authentic self

<aside> 💭 Intended meaning: 'finding the intersection of what you love and what you're good at, so you can do your best work.'

What it became: you can be yourself and still be included, we care about your voice' — we know people personally and everyone still feels psychologically safe.

This overlaps a great deal with 'Invite everyone to dance'

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<aside> 📊 Avg. 8.45/10

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✨ Themes

📣 Communication

🙅🏿‍♀️ Work principles

✨ Feelings

Someone who behaves authentically, can...

• 📣 Speak up
• 🙅🏿‍♀️ No code-switching
• ✨ Align work and a sense of purpose

We could be even more authentic if we...

• 📣 Don't hold thoughts back
• 🙅🏿‍♀️ Work like a distributed company
• ✨ Socialise more

What we practice & love about authenticity

• We feel celebrated and supported for being ourselves

• We feel safe

• We feel like we belong

• 📣 Speaking up

• 🙅🏿‍♀️ Not taking ourselves too seriously

• ✨ Being open and empathetic

Other thoughts

• You can never truly be yourself at work

• It's hard to connect with people 'authentically' remotely

• Being authentic should be balanced with still doing the things we don't necessarily like that need to be done

• 📣 How can we encourage people to speak up more?

• 🙅🏿‍♀️ How authentic can we be at work?

• ✨ It's a tricky value to articulate