Better Allies®: Everyday Actions to Create Inclusive, Engaging Workplaces
This book will help you learn to spot situations where you can create a more inclusive culture, along with straightforward steps to take. In this fully revised second edition, you’ll learn to spot situations where you can create a more inclusive culture, along with straightforward steps to take and changes to make. Karen Catlin, a highly-sought after expert on allyship, will show you how to:
• Attract and hire a diverse workforce
• Amplify and advocate for others
• Give effective and equitable performance feedback
• Use more inclusive language
• Run inclusive conferences and events
Read this book to level-up your ally skills and create a culture where everyone can do their best work and thrive.
The Better Allies® Way: A Workbook for Being More Inclusive at Work
Step into the realm of allyship with this practical workbook that takes you on a guided journey through seven dynamic archetypes. Karen Catlin’s proven approach, derived from her bestselling book Better Allies®, breaks down the barriers to inclusive workplaces by demonstrating that anyone can make a significant impact through everyday actions. The archetypes – Sponsor, Champion, Amplifier, Advocate, Scholar, Confidant, and Upstander – provide a roadmap to effective allyship, empowering you to be a catalyst for change.
• For Individuals: Embrace this workbook as your travel companion on your allyship journey. Explore the archetypes, engage with exercises, and uncover new ways to level up your ally skills.
• For Teams: Use the discussion prompts and activities to enhance your team’s collective allyship capabilities. Dive into one archetype per week, and watch as your group becomes a force for positive transformation.
Your ally journey starts now. Let’s create change, one archetype at a time.
Belonging in Healthcare: The Better Allies® Approach to Creating More Inclusive Workplaces
It’s become increasingly clear that healthcare workplaces are filled with non-inclusive behavior. People who are underrepresented because of their gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and identity, disabilities, and other factors regularly face biases and challenges that hold them back from success. These include everything from harassment, dismissive behavior, and lack of credit for their contributions, to pay inequity, extra hurdles to advancement, and more. And while many organizations are looking to address these issues with top-down initiatives, there’s also an important role for individuals to play in creating a more inclusive culture via everyday acts of allyship.In this new book, inclusive workplace expert Karen Catlin brings her popular Better Allies® approach to healthcare workplaces.
Belonging in Healthcare provides a practical, research-based guide for how to be a better ally for coworkers who are from underrepresented groups. Filled with firsthand accounts from nurses, physicians, staff, administrators, and professors, combined with published studies, the book will help you spot situations where you can create a more inclusive workplace and everyday actions to take so everyone can thrive.
This is the book that allies in healthcare have been searching for: an industry-specific guide to the mindsets, strategies, and changes needed to make their workplaces more equitable from the inside out.
The Better Allies® Approach to Hiring
Are you struggling to diversify your workforce? Is your company consistently missing its diversity goals? You may hear colleagues saying, “We’d hire more women or people of color if we could find them,” but the pipeline isn’t truly to blame. There are proven approaches for connecting with qualified candidates from underrepresented demographics. And when you know how to design a hiring process that will set them up for success, they’ll be eager to accept your offer.
Building on the momentum of her book, Better Allies®: Everyday Actions to Create Inclusive, Engaging Workplaces, Karen Catlin has created this helpful hiring guide filled with best practices to recruit and hire people from underrepresented ethnicities and genders, with non-traditional educational backgrounds, with gaps on their resumes, or from older generations. With examples, stories, checklists, rubrics, and guidelines galore, this unique tool will help you transform your hiring process and pave the way to a more diverse workforce.
Present! A Techie’s Guide to Public Speaking
Poornima Vijayashanker and Karen Catlin wrote the book they wish they had earlier in their careers: Present! A Techie’s Guide to Public Speaking.
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