TeamMoore Agency offers online classes, a supportive community, and mentorship for creators and hosts. We are dedicated to providing harassment-free experiences for everyone, regardless of who they are, what they look like, or what they believe. This includes gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, race, ethnicity, location, political views, or religion.
We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form. Individuals violating these rules will be warned and, if appropriate, expelled from TeamMoore Agency at the discretion of the team.
Who and Where This Applies
This Code of Conduct applies to all correspondence and interactions between TeamMoore Agency, its employees, students, and alumni. Examples include: email, Zoom video chat, live chat, webinars, social media, and in person.
Expectations as a Member
We invite all who participate in the TeamMoore Agency Community to help us create safe and positive experiences for everyone. This section covers how you can make this community awesome with your actions!
- Be considerate and respectful. Exercise consideration and respect in your speech and actions.
- Impact over Intention. If you are unsure if something is appropriate behavior, it probably isn’t. Each person you interact with can define where that line is for them. Impact matters more than intent. Ensuring that your behavior does not have a negative impact is your responsibility. Problems happen when we assume that our way of thinking or behaving is the norm or ok with everyone.
- Make Space, Take Space. Speak up and have your voice heard, but also be cognizant of how much space you’re occupying and take a step back when needed. Let people of different backgrounds tell their stories and experiences. We have a lot to learn from each other!
- Value Each Other. Members of this community spend their precious and valuable time to give each other guidance, advice, introductions, etc. If someone does this for you, acknowledge their comments, take time to write back thank you to their messages, and pay it forward when you can.
- Respect Each Other’s Differences. Everyone has different beliefs and viewpoints. In order to avoid a conflict, disrespecting someone’s view or making them feel unwelcome, please refrain from promoting or soliciting controversial topics such as religion.
- Be the Community Member You Want Others to Be to You. Help each other! Participate in a supportive and active way. In doing so, you contribute to the health and longevity of this community. Attempt collaboration before conflict. Refrain from demeaning, discriminatory, or harassing behavior and speech.
- Report. Be mindful of your surroundings and of your fellow participants. Alert us if you notice a dangerous situation, someone in distress, or violations of this Code of Conduct, even if they seem inconsequential. You can report a violation.
Definition of harassment
harass′ment n. systematic and/or continued unwanted and annoying actions of one party or a group, including threats and demands.
Harassment includes offensive verbal or written comments or solicitation related to gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual images in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, harassing photography or recording, sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention.
Unwelcome behavior
Here are some examples of inappropriate or unwelcome behavior in the TeamMoore Agency community.
- Microaggression. Microaggressions are often brief and communicate hostile and derogatory slights or insults about a person. Offhand comments can be hurtful, feel dismissive, and insult people, even if that wasn’t the intent.
- Examples: “You are good at math for a girl.” or “You sound white when you talk”.
- Better approach: “You’re good at math!”
- Non-Collaborative Attitude. Tech is a highly collaborative field, so providing constructive feedback is important.
- Not constructive: Saying only “Looks good.” or “I don’t like it.”
- Constructive: Explain WHY you think something could be improved. “I wonder what this would look like with more light between you and your camera? It might make your videos look cleaner.”
- Subtle Prejudice.
- “This is so easy my Grandma could do it!” This is a great example for a couple reasons:
- i) It assumes that a Grandma can not be tech savvy or intelligent– which just isn’t true. We know quite a few Grandmas that can kick serious butt in a video editor!
- ii) Just because something may be easy for you does not necessarily mean that it’s easy for someone else. Everyone is in a different stage of their learning process.
- Interrupting. Listen when others are speaking. Interruptions often happen when we assume we know what someone is saying and we interject before they have finished. Sometimes we interrupt when we are afraid we’ll forget something important that we want to say. Be conscious of when you interrupt. If you are worried you might forget what you want to say, write it down, so you can go back to fully paying attention to the person who is speaking.
How We Handle Code of Conduct Violations
This section explains how TeamMoore Agency will handle reported violations, and the consequences of these violations.
Steps We Take to Review Reported Violations
- Review any evidence attached to report
- If necessary, privately speak with individual who was affected by the violation.
- Consequences of a Violation
- If the violation is deemed to be accidental, the individual will receive a warning notification explaining the incident & how to improve.
- If the individual is determined to be harassing another person, or continues to make incendiary comments despite a warning, they will be removed from the TeamMoore Agency community immediately.
- Unacceptable behavior from any community member, including instructors and those with decision-making authority, will not be tolerated.