Strategies and tools to become a better leader by developing an inclusive perspective at work
Instead of seeing inclusiveness as a “trendy concept,” The Contemporary Leader: The Value of Inclusion in Successful Leadership shows its audience on how inclusion is an emotion that is achieved only through effective practice abilities. This book delves into what inclusiveness promises us, discusses the relationship between inclusiveness, productivity, and diversity, evaluates concepts that are useful for us to increase our capacity for inclusion and looks at the obstacles that stand in the way of inclusion (such as unconscious prejudices) to help teach readers understand how to change and become an inclusive leader.
Written by Dr. Riza Kadilar, President of European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC Global), this book explores topics including:
- How inclusion is effected when people feel respected, valued, trusted and safe, have a sense of belonging and are able to be their best self
- Why diversity in aspects like age, appearance, culture and education can be turned into a benefit for any organisation
- Why leaders must regard the differences, and not be regardless of the differences, of their team members
The Contemporary Leader earns a well deserved spot on the bookshelves of all coaches and mentors, business leaders, HR professionals and managers who seek to reinvent their perspective surrounding timely interpersonal topics and achieve greater organisational cohesiveness and success as a result.
Table of Contents
Foreword ix
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction xiii
1 Why Inclusion and Why Now? 1
What Do We Mean by Inclusion? 3
To What Change Does Inclusion Owe Its Current Importance? 5
2 The Relationship Between the Concepts of Inclusion, Productivity, and Diversity 27
Performance and Productivity, and Inclusion 29
Diversity and Inclusion 32
Psychological Diversity 34
Diversity Fuelled by Our Backdrop Stories 38
3 Leadership and Inclusion 41
Leadership Paradigms 45
The Place of the Concept of Leadership in My Life 59
4 Factors Affecting Our Capacity for Inclusion 63
Making Our Emotions Functional 65
Empathy 75
Power and How We Use Our Own 89
Trusting and Feeling Safe 91
Unconscious Biases 101
Project Implicit: Unconscious Associations 103
Cognitive Dissonance 112
Our Privileges 126
What We Exclude 130
Belonging and Independence 132
Invisibility and Being Excluded 138
5 Inclusion in the Personal Development Journey 145
A Memory 148
Growth Mindset 151
Developing a Growth Mindset 153
Learned Optimism 161
6 Inclusion Development Model in the Institutional Context 167
Institutional Inclusion Barometer 173
Development Strategy for Institutional Inclusion Capacity 175
7 Final Words 195
So How Shall We Design Our Futures in Light of These Developments? 197
If We Were to Give Advice to Ourselves from the Future 199
8 Sources for Inspiration 203
From Japanese Culture 205
The Athena Doctrine 209
Resilience 212
Change Management, Gestalt, and Coaching 228
Mentoring 240
Situational Leadership 253
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 257
Advice for a Data Scientist 265
Index 275
