Conscious Leadership in the Workplace: A Guidebook to Making a Difference One Person at a Time

by Rosalie Chamberlain

Overview

Conscious Leadership in the Workplace is a guidebook for individuals and leaders to lead more effectively and to support and create dynamic, successful, and inclusive environments, by taking a deeper dive into the importance of addressing individual unconscious bias. Unconscious bias can impact the diversity of the workforce and the success of an organization in a global marketplace. Conscious Leadership in the Workplace gives helpful tips for leaders to consider how they currently lead, address their unconscious biases and behaviors, and transform their leadership to effectively lead themselves and others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781630476731
Publisher:	Morgan James Publishing
Publication date:	12/31/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	130
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Rosalie Chamberlain is an ICF certified Executive & Leadership Coach and Diversity & Inclusion Consultant, certified through Cornell University School of Labor & Relations. She was the former Diversity & Inclusion Manager at a Top AmLaw100 law firm, and is the owner of Rosalie Chamberlain Consulting & Coaching, a full service consulting and coaching company. She has published a series of articles on diversity & inclusion and cultural competency for Law Week Colorado.

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In some form we all lead, whether we are leading others or we are the leaders of our own individual lives.

Conscious leaders play a huge role in organizations, and can act as catalysts for growth. Conscious leaders are naturally inclusive and as a result, the organization benefits from the utilization of the rich and varied talents of the workforce. But each leader must do the work themselves to become more inclusive; leadership starts with you.

Because of the idea that each individual is so important to creating environments that are successful, high performing and inclusive, this book is a guidebook for making a difference—one person at a time. We start with ourselves first. If we continue to address the ways we interact with our teams and with the world at large, we can become a model for others who look to achieve their own goals. Together we will go over simple steps for bringing greater consciousness into your leadership. This book will look deeper into what being inclusive means, talk about the differences between misconceptions and reality, and what gets in the way of becoming an empowering and engaging leader working with an energized, productive team.

To what extent do our biases without our awareness or conscious control shape our likes and dislikes, our judgments about people’s character, abilities, and potential? This is important information for anyone in leadership. Conscious leaders are committed to becoming aware of their biases and exploring their impact on decision-making, inclusion, strategy and development. As much as possible, we want conscious intentions to guide our decisions. As we become aware of our unconscious biases, we can take steps to align our behavior with these conscious intentions.

When I speak of unconscious bias, I mean beliefs, judgments and automatic thought processes that are unknown, submerged, hidden from view. They are outside of our awareness. Our goal in becoming self-aware is to shine a light to bring these unconscious beliefs and processes to the surface, into our conscious awareness.

This also applies to development programs, succession planning, business development and advancement. If you are responsible for setting policies and procedures and communicating internally in your organization as well as externally, you will especially benefit from a dispassionate look at the source of the decisions you make to determine if potential bias contributes to the decisions. We want conscious choices to be the foundation of our practices.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Who are You and What is the Message You are Broadcasting?

Chapter 2: The Element of Fear

Chapter 3: The Unconscious and Understanding Bias

Chapter 4: Know Your Triggers

Chapter 5: Duality

Chapter 6: Leave the Ego at the Door

Chapter 7: Stop the Blame Game

Chapter 8: Claim your Authentic Power

Chapter 9: Confidently Lead Yourself and Others