Impactful Inclusion Toolkit: 52 Activities to Help You Learn and Practice Inclusion Every Day in the Workplace - Paperback

by Yvette Steele (Author)

Practical, hands-on strategies to increase inclusion, diversity, and equity in your workplace

In Impactful Inclusion Toolkit: 52 Activities to Help You Learn and Practice Inclusion Every Day in the Workplace, accomplished diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) strategist and leader Yvette Steele delivers a collection of practical and hands-on exercises that encourage and promote inclusion in the workplace. The exercises emphasize the development of key inclusive behaviors, including self-knowledge, connecting with others, creating new habits, and experiencing other cultures.

In the book, you'll find:

• 52 behaviors to practice during the year that will empower you to be more inclusive in the real world
• Concrete instructions regarding how to become more inclusive, rather than just high-level information about inclusivity generally
• Actionable strategies to help drive change in your organization and manage the discomfort that sometimes exists around DEI issues

An effective and practical resource for anyone who wants to be more inclusive. Frontline and knowledge workers can empower themselves to drive change with weekly activities and resources. DEI and HR professionals, company founders, owners, managers, and other business leaders can better support staff on their inclusion journey. The Impactful Inclusion Toolkit is an essential addition to DEI strategies of any organization whether they are active or aspire to be more inclusive.

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Effective tools to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion at every level in your organization

In the Impactful Inclusion Toolkit: 52 Activities to Help You Learn and Practice Inclusion Every Day in the Workplace, distinguished inclusion strategist Yvette Steele delivers a practical collection of inclusive behaviors designed to cultivate inclusion in the workplace. Staunch in the belief that inclusion is everybody's job that anybody can do, the author prescribes weekly doses of strategies, dos, and don'ts to help launch, navigate, and maintain a personal and organizational journey of inclusion. Her unique perspective empowers individuals to lead inclusion where they stand within the organization, even when they lack positional power. Drawn from decades of encounters with exclusion, Yvette provides clarity on what it takes to build inclusion into day-to-day interactions. We are beyond awareness of the systems and beliefs that divide us. Now is the time to stop talking and start working toward equitable outcomes.

The Impactful Inclusion Toolkit is a must-have resource for current and future champions of inclusion to keep within arm's reach to drive change in the workplace and society. A weekly diet of bite sized learnings can be applied right away and extends beyond race and gender issues to include age, ability, religion, and sexual orientation. This book equips individuals and organizational leaders to build the skills needed to unlock inclusion. Frontline employees to C-suite leaders who fully digest the content can:

• Gain effective and common-sense approaches that may complement diversity trainings and workshops
• Support the work of Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to help staff feel more accepted and included
• Learn to identify privilege and understand how to leverage it
• Foster a sense of belonging for remote coworkers
• Choose courage over comfort to create impact

Author Biography

YVETTE STEELE is a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) leader whose career spans decades in sales, marketing, and DEI roles within small to mid-sized businesses to Fortune 500 organizations. Commonly the only person of color and/or the only woman at the company or on her team, the challenges faced at the beginning of her career persist today. Boldly committed to improving the lives of the millions of individuals with similar lived experiences, you'll find her calling out the issues and offering solutions on webinars, podcasts, and news articles. She has served on the DEI Advisory Committee for YMCA-USA, Tech Advisory Board Steering Committee for the National Urban League, and the DEI Task Force for Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce.