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How to Be an Ally: Actions You Can Take for a Stronger, Happier Workplace
Through the power of allyship, each of us can create an equitable, innovative workplace where everyone feels safe, valued, and able to thrive
How can you help someone else thrive? How can you interrupt the biases, microaggressions, and inequities that prevent people around you from excelling? How can you build an innovative workplace fueled by equity, diversity and belonging?
Every business leader today should be asking themselves these questions. Systems and processes have been skewed too long in favor of some at the expense of others, and things are changing--fast. How to Be an Ally shows how to take personal responsibility for driving change that's good for people--and for business. You'll learn the ins and outs of allyship and build the knowledge and skills you need to:
Listen and learn new perspectives Identify your own biases Avoid unintentionally harming people with microaggressions Express empathy with courage Advocate for people in small, everyday ways Rethink your work to be more inclusive, equitable, and accessible Build team norms that cultivate allyship Create equitable, inclusive systems and processes Uniquely insightful and extremely timely, How to Be an Ally humanizes diversity and inclusion and facilitates greater empathy and understanding between people of all identities. It teaches us that every individual can learn about the imbalance in opportunity and work to correct it.
The key to true diversity, equity, and inclusion is allyship. This one-of-a-kind guide provides everything you need to use allyship to create a better workplace for ourselves and our colleagues.
How can you help someone else thrive? How can you interrupt the biases, microaggressions, and inequities that prevent people around you from excelling? How can you build an innovative workplace fueled by equity, diversity and belonging?
Every business leader today should be asking themselves these questions. Systems and processes have been skewed too long in favor of some at the expense of others, and things are changing--fast. How to Be an Ally shows how to take personal responsibility for driving change that's good for people--and for business. You'll learn the ins and outs of allyship and build the knowledge and skills you need to:
Listen and learn new perspectives Identify your own biases Avoid unintentionally harming people with microaggressions Express empathy with courage Advocate for people in small, everyday ways Rethink your work to be more inclusive, equitable, and accessible Build team norms that cultivate allyship Create equitable, inclusive systems and processes Uniquely insightful and extremely timely, How to Be an Ally humanizes diversity and inclusion and facilitates greater empathy and understanding between people of all identities. It teaches us that every individual can learn about the imbalance in opportunity and work to correct it.
The key to true diversity, equity, and inclusion is allyship. This one-of-a-kind guide provides everything you need to use allyship to create a better workplace for ourselves and our colleagues.
395 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 14, 2021
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September 10, 2024
This is less a book and more a WORKbook.
What Melinda Epler has done with How to be an Ally is create a valuable material than can be used for self-education, for an introduction into possible blind spots (and an invitation for a whole lot of research to follow), as well as for courses and workshops on DEI and other topics regarding inclusivity.
Besides the information gathered, there are questions for self/team reflection and even exercises people can do in order to better their attitudes regarding their minority colleagues (regardless of the types of minorities).
What Melinda Epler has done with How to be an Ally is create a valuable material than can be used for self-education, for an introduction into possible blind spots (and an invitation for a whole lot of research to follow), as well as for courses and workshops on DEI and other topics regarding inclusivity.
Besides the information gathered, there are questions for self/team reflection and even exercises people can do in order to better their attitudes regarding their minority colleagues (regardless of the types of minorities).
March 1, 2022
Big corporate DEI initiatives fail more often than not. This book takes DEI down to the individual level—showing managers what they can do personally to create a better workplace. Interviewed author here: https://www.strategy-business.com/blo...
December 4, 2022
This detailed and thoroughly researched book gives you what you need to know to be an ally. Epler defines it, details how it important it is, and provides specific examples of both what to do, and what not to do.
There are concepts that both surprised me, and yet were so sensible when you think about it. Unlearn, learn, and relearn. We have to work to unlearn what we were exposed to when young in order to learn how to be an ally. I saw a meme that said that your first biased thought is what you learned and the fact that you don't act on it proves that you have progressed beyond that. We can't just say the right thing, it has to become part of our DNA in order to effect real change. It all fits together with Epler's concept of Unlearn, Learn, and Relearn.
Epler stresses that we ALL can be allies to each other. Men for women. White women for Black Lives Matter. Black people for Jewish people. Jewish people for Indigenous people. Think of what a better world we would have if this idea was widespread.
Epler knows her stuff. I recommend this book
There are concepts that both surprised me, and yet were so sensible when you think about it. Unlearn, learn, and relearn. We have to work to unlearn what we were exposed to when young in order to learn how to be an ally. I saw a meme that said that your first biased thought is what you learned and the fact that you don't act on it proves that you have progressed beyond that. We can't just say the right thing, it has to become part of our DNA in order to effect real change. It all fits together with Epler's concept of Unlearn, Learn, and Relearn.
Epler stresses that we ALL can be allies to each other. Men for women. White women for Black Lives Matter. Black people for Jewish people. Jewish people for Indigenous people. Think of what a better world we would have if this idea was widespread.
Epler knows her stuff. I recommend this book
August 14, 2022
Very practical book on Inclusive leadership
January 11, 2022
Nice introduction to Allyship
This book was gave an interesting perspective on Allyship. However, I feel the book ended abruptly. On Kindle, it said that 66% of the book was over and then it suddenly showed as complete and Read.
This book was gave an interesting perspective on Allyship. However, I feel the book ended abruptly. On Kindle, it said that 66% of the book was over and then it suddenly showed as complete and Read.
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