The Next Smart Step: How to Overcome Gender Stereotypes and Build a Stronger Organization

Kelly Watson · Jodi Detjen

thg 9 2021 · Gildan Media · Người đọc: Nan McNamara

Giới thiệu về sách nói này

Empowering women empowers everyone. Women with confidence, equal pay, and leadership opportunity enrich workplace culture and help the whole organization. The first step is understanding that gender balance is not a zero-sum game. The Next Smart Step is a clear, assured guide to understanding the challenge of gender imbalance, implementing solutions, and equipping listeners with the tools we all need to ensure change that is positive and enduring. It is about all of us becoming leaders. The Next Smart Step builds on a positive reality, helping listeners recognize and manage unconscious biases, see diversity as a twenty-first-century skill, and work towards equal partnerships in the workplace. It outlines strategies for flexibility, communication, openness, and mutual respect. Gender equity is not only the right thing to do-it makes life better, workplace culture more diverse, opportunity more widely available, and organizations more successful. The Next Smart Step will help everyone from new hires to corporate executives learn the personal leadership this important issue demands.

Giới thiệu tác giả

Kelly Watson is managing partner of Orange Grove Consulting and has spent more than twenty years as an accomplished operations and organizational development consultant. She is coauthor, with Jodi Ecker Detjen and Michelle A. Waters, of the book The Orange Line: A Woman's Guide to Integrating Career, Family, and Life.

Jodi Ecker Detjen is an organizational consultant and educator with a foundation in operational change management. In addition to being cofounder and managing partner of Orange Grove Consulting, Jodi is clinical professor of management and academic MBA program director at Suffolk University.

Nan McNamara is an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator and garnered the "Best Audiobook of 2016" distinction for her narration of Mister Monkey by Francine Prose. She has more than twenty years of experience as a professional actress on stage, television, and film.