Overview
This complete guide to effective, transformative diversity training provides an answer to the superficial, check-the-box DEI efforts that are undermining the entire field. Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work is getting a bad reputation. But that's because it's not being done right, say veteran diversity consultants James O. Rodgers and Laura Kangas. Too many organizations are treating diversity training as a quick-hit, low-cost, check-the-box activity. Effective diversity training involves behavioral change based on adult-learning theory. It is rigorous, deeply personal, experience based, and, if done well, life changing. Rodgers and Kangas offer a complete guide, from design to implementation to results. They show how to: Determine what specific, tangible outcomes an organization wants before it starts Link diversity training to overall organizational strategy Help all participants forge an individual, emotional connection to the training Identify what skills a facilitator needs--the right facilitator makes all the difference Create memorable learning experiences, not simply educational programs The authors' goal is nothing less than to spark a worldwide revolution of informed practitioners, employees, and business leaders who will demand diversity training be given the same time, resources, and attention as any other critical enterprise initiative.
Full Product Details
Author: James O Rodgers ,
Laura L Kangas ,
Dr Marshall Goldsmith ,
Bill Larson
Publisher: Ascent Audio
Imprint: Ascent Audio
Edition: Unabridged edition
ISBN: 9798228333468
Publication Date: 26 July 2022
Audience:
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
""[The authors] bring the right focus to diversity training. Their knowledge, experience, and commitment to work in the diversity space keeps the focus on results. This book will help readers achieve meaningful and measurable results."" -- ""Chris Womack, president and CEO, Georgia Power Company"" ""Leaders seeking effective DEI training needs to think strategically about why it matters and how it will happen. Rodgers and Kangas address both the 'why' and the 'how.' This useful guide is must reading!"" -- ""Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD, author and president emerita, Spelman College""
Author Information
Dr. James O. Rodgers is an author and president and principal consultant of the Diversity Coach. His clients include organizations like Howard University, AT&T, Prudential, IBM, Shell, Pfizer, Coca-Cola, Pizza Hut, the CIA, and Society for Human Resource Management. He is a fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants. Laura L. Kangas is the founder and director of RiverBend Associates and is a global organizational and employee-development consultant, workshop and program designer, facilitator, speaker, and writer. For over twenty-five years, she has been collaboratively developing strategy and leading programs in diversity, equity, and inclusion and other areas of employee and management development. Marshall Goldsmith was recently recognized as the number one leadership thinker in the world at the biannual Thinkers50 ceremony sponsored by Harvard Business Review. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than thirty books, including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers Mojo and What Got You Here Won't Get You There. Caroline Slaughter is a voice talent and audiobook narrator.
