"Creating the Charter"
Rachael Parker, ReImagine Omaha
About This Audio
Rachael Parker from ReImagine Omaha shares insights on building charters with lived experience at the center. She emphasizes the importance of naming human-centered skills like empathy, compassion, and relational capacity in job descriptions and organizational frameworks.
Key Insight
"The actual words 'empathy' and 'human connection' should be written into job postings. We need to value emotional intelligence and genuine connection just as much as technical expertise."
Consider how your organization names and values human-centered skills in its hiring and partnership practices.
Reflection Questions
- •How does your organization currently describe the skills needed for lived experience roles?
- •Are qualities like empathy, compassion, and relational capacity explicitly named in your job descriptions?
- •How might explicitly valuing emotional intelligence change your hiring and partnership practices?
Take Action
Review Your Job Descriptions: Look at your current job postings for lived experience partnership roles. Do they explicitly name human-centered skills?
Add Human-Centered Language: Consider adding words like "empathy," "compassion," "relational capacity," and "human connection" as essential competencies.
Challenge Traditional Norms: Reflect on how your organization can better value emotional intelligence alongside technical expertise.