The Next Smart Step: How to Overcome Gender Stereotypes and Build a Stronger Organization
- 8h 8m 44s
- Jodi Detjen, Kelly Watson
- Gildan Media
- 2021
“A candid, readable, and useful book about how we can get past talking about gender bias and actually start doing something about it.”
—Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of ORIGINALS and GIVE AND TAKE, and host of the TED podcast WorkLife
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 readers 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 readers recognize and manage unconscious biases, see diversity as a 21st-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.
In this Audiobook
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1. It's All Made up
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2. Unconscious Bias
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3. Flawed Assumptions and Bad Habits
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4. Organizational Bias
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5. The Power of the Reframe
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6. What Women Need to Do
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7. What Men Need to Do
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8. What Organizations Need to Do
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9. Promoting Leadership
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10. Building Gender Equity from Vision to Reality
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11. Making and Measuring Progress
