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Are you willing to consider the feelings and needs of others? Are you aware of your
own feelings and needs?
Are you functioning within your role in the organization? Are there any aspects
of your or anyone else’s role that need to be discussed, clarified, learned about,
or agreed upon?
Are there any role issues related to you or anyone else in the system that are
affecting you and/or others related to any issue within the system right now?
Are there any in-group/out-group issues that are being contributed to by issues
concerning role confusion or role-disagreement?
Are there any diversity issues affecting how people in the workplace system
experience in-groups or out-groups?
Are there any diversity issues affecting you and/or others in the company at this
time? Are there any subtle patterns around diversity that the company should take
note of and consider addressing?
Are any conflicts being affected by diversity issues, even if only in very subtle ways?
Can this be discussed in the company, or is this an “undiscussable”? Is there any way
to raise any “undiscussables” about diversity that currently exist in the workplace?
Are there any diversity issues that you can see that are affecting you or your
behavior or those of others in the current workplace situation?
Are there any diversity issues that are contributing to in-group/out-group issues?
Are there any diversity issues that are contributing to legal compliance concerns
or issues?
Are there any diversity issues that are creating feelings of anger, disgust, fear, or
surprise for anyone in the workplace system? If so, how can HR address these
emotional reactions? Alternatively, are these emotional reactions “undiscussables”
in some way?
Are there any current in-groups and out-groups?
If so, what are these? Are there in-groups and out-groups based on any diversity
issues? If so, what are those? Are there in-group/out-group issues that relate to
“undiscussables”?
Are you experiencing being in an in-group or an out-group right now in relation
to anything happening currently in the workplace system?
Are you functioning within legal and ethical compliance requirements? Is anyone in
the workplace system not doing so? How are each of these affecting the workplace
system?
Is there agreement or disagreement regarding specifics related to legal and ethical
compliance issues?
Is there anything related to this that is affecting you or anyone else right now in
the workplace system?

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