What If Short Stories to Spark

Robbins, Steve Long-Nguyen

ISBN 10: 0891062750 / ISBN 13: 9780891062752

Published by Nicholas Brealey America, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

Title: What If Short Stories to Spark

Publisher: Nicholas Brealey America

Publication Date: 2008

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis:

What If? delivers a highly creative and innovative new way to explore the issues that dominate today's multicultural, multiethnic workplace. To the twenty-five witty yet inspiring stories in this collection, Steve Long-Nguyen Robbins has added tips and suggestions for putting these key learnings into action. Combined, What If? offers a powerful lens into the human experience.

From the Publisher:

In today's global environment, diversity and inclusion training is no longer an option. Implementing strategies to attract, build, and leverage a diverse workforce is a must if organizations want to get the most value out of their human resources and gain competitive advantage.

National speaker and diversity and inclusion consultant Steve L. Robbins, a Vietnamese-American who immigrated to the U.S. as a boy during the Vietnam War, understands firsthand the damaging effects of prejudice, cultural assumptions, and closed minds. In WHAT IF?, Robbins presents a series of short, memorable stories that illustrate key concepts about diversity, inclusion, and the value of an open mind. This is an easy, fun read filled with insightful observations about human behavior, featuring questions to stimulate diversity dialogue and activities that help individuals and groups practice new thinking and behaviors.

This workshop-in-a-book is designed to get leaders, managers, HR professionals, and employees thinking, talking, sharing, and leveraging everyone's perspectives, talents, and experience for the good of the organization.

Having trained employees at numerous Fortune 50, 100, and 500 companies and national nonprofits, Robbins shows fresh ways to:

* Discover hidden talents in all your employees * Solve problems better by tapping more perspectives * Assess your leadership's inclusion policies * Prepare your people for diversity training * Identify systemic inclusion gaps in your company's culture * Ramp up your organization's diversity and inclusion practices

Leaders and employees tend not to have crucial conversations around issues of diversity and inclusion. This book is an invaluable conversation starter and teaching tool for any type of organization--nonprofits, governmental agencies, small businesses, corporations, schools, even sports teams--looking to develop an environment in which all members can thrive, contribute, and reach their potential.