Acceptance: Developing Support for Change

by Debbe Kennedy, Alan Jones (Foreword)

This book focuses on how-to develop support for change in your organization, including leadership, sponsorship, manager conviction and buy-in from everyone involved, essential ingredients for creating a diverse, inclusive environment---one that reflects the marketplaces and communities of the 21st Century. Includes organizational self-assessment tools to help you determine where you are now, what you can do action strategies and ideas for what and how to gain acceptance of the need for change in your organization's leadership, culture, involvement, the business, strategies and measures, staffing and development and ownership. Also includes inspiring personal stories from executives from HP, IBM, U.S. Army, Mars Exploration Program, Lowell Area Schools, Leap Wireless International and best-selling Australian author, Catherine DeVrye, as well as an action planning guide and a call to action. Twenty-five illustrations; two-color format. Designed for anyone with the responsibility of setting an example and leading change in your organization.

96 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1999