Books Top selling Books: White Men as Full Diversity Partners Engage Making Diversity Work: 7 Steps for Defeating Bias in the Workplace Building on the Promise of Diversity OUCH! That Stereotype Hurts White Men as Full Diversity Partners Skills Building Field Guide Set Building on the Promise of Diversity We have a diverse society and a diverse workforce. Have we done enough to reap the full benefits of this diversity? One of the world’s most acclaimed experts says, "not yet"—and shows us how to move forward. This book includes a deeply felt analysis of the sometimes tangled intersections between diversity management and the Civil Rights Movement and affirmative action agendas . . . a personal narrative that charts Dr. Roosevelt Thomas’s own evolution in diversity thinking . . . and a roadmap for mastering the powerful craft of Strategic Diversity Management™, a structured process that helps you: • Realize why multiple activities and good intentions are not enough for achieving sustainable progress. • Recast the meaning of diversity as more than just race and gender, but as any set of differences, similarities, and tensions—such as workplace functions, product lines, acquisitions and mergers, customers and markets, blended families, community diversity, and more. • Accept that a realistic goal is not to eliminate diversity tension but to use it as a catalyst to address key issues. • Recognize diversity mixtures, analyze them accurately, and make quality decisions in the midst of differences, similarities, and tensions. • Build an essential set of diversity skills and develop your “diversity maturity”—the wisdom, judgment, and experience to use those skills effectively. • Reflect on the ways you might be “diversity challenged” yourself. Diversity is the reality of America today. Whether you let diversity be a drain on your organization or a dynamic contributor to your mission, vision, and strategy is both a choice and a challenge. Building on the Promise of Diversity gives you the insights and skills you need to navigate through simmering tensions—and find creative solutions for achieving cohesiveness, connectedness, and common goals. Purchase this book for $23.95 Corporate Tribalism Corporate Tribalism: White Men/White Women and Cultural Diversity at Work By Thomas Kochman and Jean Mavrelis (University of Chicago Press, 256 pages) The 2008 elections shattered historical precedents and pushed race and gender back to the forefront of our national consciousness. The wide range of reactions to the efforts of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Sarah Palin dramatically reflected ongoing conflicts over diversity in our society, especially in the venue where people are most likely to encounter them: work. As more and more people who aren’t white men enter corporate America, we urgently need to learn how to avoid clashes. Thomas Kochman and Jean Mavrelis have been helping corporations successfully do that for over twenty years. Their diversity training and consulting firm has helped managers and employees at numerous companies recognize and overcome the cultural bases of miscommunication between ethnic groups and across gender lines. In Corporate Tribalism, Kochman and Mavrelis seek to share their expertise with the world. In the first half of the book, Kochman addresses white men, explicating the ways that their cultural background can motivate their behavior, work style, and perspective on others. Then Mavrelis turns to white women, focusing on the particular problems they face, including conflicts with men, other women, and themselves. Together they emphasize the need for a multicultural—rather than homogenizing—approach and offer constructive ideas for turning the workplace into a more interactive community for everyone who works there. Written with the wisdom and clarity gained from two decades of hands-on work, Corporate Tribalism will be an invaluable resource as we look toward a future beyond the glass ceiling. Purchase this book for $22.50 Emotional Intelligence and Diversity Primer Emotional Intelligence and Diversity is an intentional, conscious process that enables you to gain understanding and mastery over your emotions. The primer outlines the four components of the EID model and includes numerous activities designed to help you understand yourself better. Author: Jorge Cherbosque, Lee Gardenswartz, and Anita Rowe Purchase this book for $12.00 Great Peacemakers By Ken Beller and Heather Chase This book tells the true life stories of 20 great peacemakers from around the world, including famous leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as lesser-known individuals from various walks of life who are making a positive difference in the world. Let these inspirational stories offer insight for creating peace in your own life. Purchase this book for $14.95 I Can See Clearly I Can See Clearly, the newest book by Steve Hanamura, is intended to show leaders and decision makers’ new possibilities for leading a diverse workforce. The power of personal stories is the catalyst to introduce creative thinking on how to address workplaces challenges and insure that all members of society become contributing members of the workforce. Blind from birth, Steve uses disability metaphors to teach leadership principles that can supplement best practices in business, transformational thinking, and ideas and strategies for creating a positive workplace climate. Purchase this book for $24.95 Making Diversity Work: 7 Steps for Defeating Bias in the Workplace Male or female, black or white, gay or straight, immigrant or native-born--everyone has biases. In the workplace, these biases exact a costly toll on American commerce, including litigation, expensive turnover, and lost business--penalties that companies can ill afford to pay. Diversity expert Dr. Sondra Thiederman has found a way to prevent these losses by providing executives and managers with a step-by-step strategy for minimizing bias and maximizing the ability to manage diversity effectively. Using real-life examples, practical tips and exercises, Dr. Thiederman guides you on a journey of self-discovery, intellectual awareness and healing. You'll gain the tools to function more effectively in a diverse workplace, identify and defeat biased attitudes, confront and minimize the fears that underlie bias, and overcome diversity-related conflict and tension. To defeat bias in the workplace, Dr. Thiederman says the dialogue must shift from blame and finger pointing to the responsibility we all share --executives, managers, HR professionals and frontline employees -- to successfully rid the workplace of harmful bias. Author: Sondra Thiederman, Ph.D. Purchase this book for $19.95 Mentorship: A Pathway to Career Success Dr. Rita Boags, acclaimed expert on mentoring, presents, Mentorship: A Pathway to Career Success, a comprehensive resource that is relevant to all industries and job titles. The book draws primarily from the feedback of hundreds of mentor/mentee pairs in formal programs and interviews with informal mentoring partners. The interviews represent a wide range of job categories and employees at many levels in a variety of industries, businesses and public service agencies. A great item to pick up to get started on a mentoring program! Purchase this book for $12.95 OUCH! That Stereotype Hurts Regardless of your job title, you need to communicate with others to be successful. If you want to communicate respect through your message so that you can help build a workplace where all individuals feel included, this book is for you! Purchase this book for $12.95 The Consistent Consumer By Ken Beller, Steve Weiss, and Louis Patler (LTS Press, 272 pages) Behavior-based demographics are dead. Instead, values-based systems are what will ensure the success of your next marketing campaign. The authors of The Consistent Consumer say values, not past behaviors, will help you better define and understand today's diverse consumer groups and more accurately anticipate how these distinct populations are likely to behave in the future-and what they are likely to buy as a result. Ken Beller, Steve Weiss, and New York Times best-selling author Louis Patler offer a values-based profiling system with five proprietary Value Populations you can use to quickly and effectively shape marketing strategy and increase the impact if your brand. With The Consistent Consumer as your guide, you'll learn how to: make and instant connection with consumers, increase sales by learning what really drives consumer spending, enhance market share with products that speak to core values, motivate groups more effectively with customized messages, and influence consumer buying decisions for years to come. The authors offer successful case studies from industries such as quick-serve restaurants, home improvement, and sports and entertainment, along with dozens of sales, marketing, and management insights that will teach you how a values-based system will help you brand your product at a much deeper, more enduring, and ultimately more consistently profitable level. Published: April 20, 2007 Purchase this book for $19.95 Walk the Talk...And Get the Results You Want Recommended by Human Resource Executive magazine as a book that should be "read carefully and revisited frequently," this best-selling business book is the cornerstone of The WALK THE TALK® philosophy. A staple for business leaders, this compelling allegory shows how to bring new life to your organization and turn values and ethics into value-added results. Foreword by Ken Blanchard. Purchase this book for $12.95 White Men as Full Diversity Partners Leadership Skills This landmark field guide brings the most sought-after talents right to your doorstep. You’ll learn how real leadership is best cultivated: by working with the diverse people around you. As you read and reflect on the thought-provoking questions and do the activities described, you’ll boost your ability to lead – and improve your organization’s business results.We consider such defining questions as: What is courage? Where does it come from? And why do you need it at work?You’ll find out how to escape the all-too-common trap of simplistic either/or thinking and embrace the normal paradoxes of every workplace – so you can work with reality instead of against it. Using our roadmap for difficult conversations, you’ll learn about the detours, dangers and delays you’re likely to encounter so you can anticipate and overcome them. In the same vein, we show you how to stay on your intended path through periods of change by allowing for the inevitable turbulence, uncertainty and resistance. And, not least, we explore how you can develop a fuller and deeper kind of leadership. Purchase this book for $15.95 White Men as Full Diversity Partners Engage Open this book, open your mind, and climb out of your box. This field guide tackles workplace diversity with startling candor and delivers refreshingly practical solutions for individuals and groups. You’ll encounter provocative questions that stretch your thinking and lead to surprising new insights about the assumptions that drive your behavior. For instance, did you know that your ability to fully partner with others is often blocked not by their resistance, but by your own hidden beliefs? Before you can cultivate truly effective partnerships, there is some essential groundwork you must do on your own. This guide will show you how to move from low collaboration to high collaboration. Of course, the other part of the equation is understanding others. In this book you’ll learn about the unconscious attitudes that govern the ways white men do – and don’t – participate in diversity efforts. You’ll even discover why it’s difficult for white women and people of color to see what white men really know about diversity. (Hint: white men are people, too.) Consider this guide required reading for all white women and people of color who want to work more effectively with white men and others. Purchase this book for $15.95 White Men as Full Diversity Partners Partnership At last, a book that puts the invisible partners of diversity – white men – in the spotlight. This paradigm-busting field guide invites white men to step out of the shadows and fully join their organizations’ diversity efforts. Because, contrary to popular belief, their engagement is critical to the success of any serious diversity initiative. Only when white men form vital partnerships with other white men, white women and people of color can organizations move from mere pro forma head count increases to a genuinely new, inclusive culture. Part of the challenge is understanding where white men are coming from. You’ll learn what white male culture is, and how it affects the white man’s business success.And you may be surprised to find out that despite their dominant position, white men are often overtly excluded from mainstream diversity efforts. That’s not a good thing, because there are powerful reasons why white men should care about – and invest in – diversity initiatives (hint: the stakes are much higher than most white men realize). Choosing to get involved in diversity actually helps white men build leadership skills; we’ll show you how. Plus, we outline new ways to smash old barriers so white men can partner more effectively with others. Purchase this book for $15.95 White Men as Full Diversity Partners Skills Building Field Guide Set These field guides address the most timely and critical issues of leadership and workplace diversity with refreshing candor. Each one focuses on a specific aspect of diversity and the key issues of the players involved. All three books offer practical, solution-oriented steps to lead you through some of the trickiest territory of today's organizations: the very personal - and often very political - problems and questions of individual and group identity. Purchase all three in the set. Purchase this book for $47.00 Search Cultural Diversity at Work Article Archive Back to the Diversity Store View shopping cart Proceed to final checkout

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