Embracing Diversity

  • 4 Courses | 2h 8m 54s
  • 13 Books | 25h 36m
  • 3 Audiobooks | 9h 48m 29s
 
Leaders benefit from diverse workforces. Explore ways to encourage diversity for better outcomes.

COURSES INCLUDED

Welcome to the Leadership Development Program
Whether you're new to a leadership role or a battle-tested veteran, there is always more to learn about leading people, leading teams, or leading your business. Learning is a life-long journey, and leadership development is an ongoing process. In this course, you'll be introduced to Skillsoft's Leadership Development Program. Comprised of thirty modern competency-based leadership channels, this program will help expand your knowledge about what it takes to be a leader and the necessary mindsets and behaviors that enable successful leaders to face and overcome the challenges they encounter every day. This course provides an introductory overview to the program and the rich array of courses, resources, tools, and expert advice available to help you grow your leadership career.
1 video | 9m available Badge
Leading Diversity
Diversity is a fact of life in the modern marketplace and workforce. In this course, you'll learn skills to help you manage and leverage diversity for the benefit of the organization.
6 videos | 35m has Assessment available Badge Certification PMI PDU
Leadership Insights on Leading Diversity
Diversity is good for business. It drives innovation and delivers results that create a competitive advantage. But to do all this, diversity has to be more than a compliance checklist. Leaders must put a premium on values and individuality.
10 videos | 23m available Badge
MIT SMR: BRAVE Conversations About Race
The BRAVE acronym offers a starting point for conversations about race and racism at work. In the past few months, there have been strong calls for organizations to join the movement in the fight against racial injustice, and many have started to answer this call. Although many see the value in addressing race and racism in organizations, it can be difficult to have conversations about these topics in the workplace. Please join diversity and inclusion experts Enrica N. Ruggs and Derek R. Avery as they discuss the importance of explicitly talking about race in the workplace and provide advice on how to begin productive conversations. They will discuss factors to consider when planning these conversations, such as audience, timing, and purpose, as well as how to structure, facilitate, and navigate a conversation about race. They will provide tips on how to have brave conversations that address tense aspects of race as a way to build competency around what inclusion really looks like in organizations.
1 video | 1h
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BOOKS INCLUDED

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MIT Sloan Management Review on Embracing Diversity in Your Leadership
In this collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll learn how companies should approach the question of diversity, and the best way to approach new leadership in an international business climate.
book Duration 54m book Authors By MIT Sloan Management Review

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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Six Ways Companies Can Promote and Protect Human Rights
This article from MIT Sloan Management Review in responding to a government's human rights abuses, companies have effective options beyond standing by or cutting ties.
book Duration 5m book Authors By Markus Scholz, N. Craig Smith

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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Is There a Generation Gap in Business?
This article from MIT Sloan Management Review explores generational differences have been exaggerated and that both boomers and millennials want business to improve its performance along a number of dimensions.
book Duration 4m book Authors By Ben Freeman, R. Edward Freeman

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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on The Detroit Hustle
This article from MIT Sloan Management Review Detroit is a city that has undergone a number of crises in recent memory. It has suffered from the long and painful departure of its auto industry.
book Duration 4m book Authors By Courtney L. McCluney, Morela Hernandez

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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Addressing Racism, Word by Word
This article from MIT Sloan Management Review explains how to achieve progress in addressing racism, businesses must move beyond arguments about semantics.
book Duration 3m book Authors By Denise Hamilton

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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Use Digital Platforms to Cultivate Diversity
In this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, learn how leaders can foster stronger collaboration by using digital platforms to increase employee diversity.
book Duration 2m book Authors By Gerald C. Kane

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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Building Effective Corporate Engagement on LGBTQ Rights
This article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals how companies supportive of LGBTQ employees and political policy have found that there is gold at the end of the equal-rights rainbow.
book Duration 5m book Authors By Daniel Korschun, Debbie Haski-Leventhal

BOOK SUMMARY

The Inclusion Dividend: Why Investing in Diversity & Inclusion Pays Off
The Inclusion Dividend discusses how to establish an inclusive corporate culture and use diversity to maximize productivity and innovation. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
book Duration 10m book Authors By Mark Kaplan, Mason Donovan

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Diversity and Inclusion
This report examines how inclusion has become a business imperative in an increasingly diverse workforce and covers a range of issues such as age, religion, nationality, disability, and sexual orientation are now included in mainstream initiatives.
book Duration 18m book Authors By Nano Riley

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Leadership and the Sexes: Using Gender Science to Create Success in Business
Through examples and case studies from companies like Kodak, Nike, Nintendo, Home Depot, Proctor & Gamble, Avon, and Disney, the book shows readers how ignoring gender diversity actually impedes the true potential of any business.
book Duration 3h 53m book Authors By Barbara Annis, Michael Gurian

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Diversity at Work: The Practice of Inclusion
Outlining the key issues involved in framing, designing, and implementing inclusion initiatives for organizations and groups, this book shows how to apply the practices of inclusion and provides a unified model by employing diverse voices to address a range of related topics in multiple contexts.
book Duration 10h 44m book Authors By Barbara R. Deane (eds), Bernardo M. Ferdman

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The Inclusion Dividend: Why Investing in Diversity & Inclusion Pays Off
Providing framework to tap the bottom line impact that results from an inclusive culture, this book presents straightforward advice on how to achieve the kind of meritocracy that will result in a tangible dividend and move companies ahead of the competition.
book Duration 3h 32m book Authors By Mark Kaplan, Mason Donovan

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Generations at Work: Managing the Clash of Boomers, Gen Xers, and Gen Yers in the Workplace, Second Edition
Taking a fresh look at a growing challenge of navigating the multigenerational workplace, this book provides in-depth interviews with members of each generation, best practices from companies bridging the generation gap, and specific tips for each generation on how to handle the others.
book Duration 5h 42m book Authors By Bob Filipczak, Claire Raines, Ron Zemke
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED

Audiobook

The Multicultural Mind: Unleashing the Hidden Force for Innovation in Your Organization
This audio edition examines how to establish the organizational conditions under which multiculturals can flourish and shows how even the most monocultural among us can gain the advantages of a multicultural mind.
audiobook Duration 3h 57m 14s audiobook Authors By David C. Thomas

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Unconventional Leadership: What Henry Ford and Detroit Taught Me about Reinvention and Diversity
This audio edition describes a leadership paradigm that will motivate, inspire, and drive new thinking in today's disruptive business environment where traditional modes of managing are no longer working.
audiobook Duration 5h 39m 35s audiobook Authors By Nancy M. Schlichting

AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY

Flex: The New Playbook For Managing Across Differences
Flex offers a number of invaluable strategies to help leaders manage diversity through effective communication, common goals, and innovative thinking. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
audiobook Duration 11m 40s audiobook Authors By Audrey S. Lee, Jane Hyun

SKILL BENCHMARKS INCLUDED

Leading Your Team
Great teams don't come together by accident. Successful leaders know that putting together an efficient and effective team requires planning, forethought, honest assessment, and a little trial and error. And once you've put the team together, then comes the work of coaching, motivating, and managing them. In this Leading Your Team Unit benchmark, you'll have the opportunity to see where your team building, and team leading skills currently stand and learn where you can further develop and refine your abilities to lead your team to success. This benchmark evaluates your understanding of this topic. Being aware of potential knowledge gaps allows you to better understand your current competency and areas for improvement, so you can find suitable content and curate your own learning path. The courses recommended at the end of this benchmark can help you fill potential gaps in your knowledge.
14m    |   14 questions