Dossiers of Awesome: Lift Up the Underdogs on Your Team

Erin Dees, Stitch Fix, USA

We often hear that we should lift up the marginalized people on our teams, but how? In Erin’s Dossiers of Awesome you’ll hear one strategy that she and her teammates developed to help everyone get the recognition and visibility they deserved. This practice helped elevate the marginalized people, and also boosted the quality of feedback across the entire team.  Erin describes the importance of supporting marginalized people and how to gather data on your teammates and their accomplishments. Learn how to help people get the visibility and recognition they deserve and see how helping the underdog can help everyone.

Learning:

1. The importance of supporting marginalized people
2. How to gather data on your and your teammates’ accomplishments
3. How to get people the visibility and recognition they’ve earned
4. How helping the underdog can help everyone

Erin Dees, 2019 Poster Paper