The Contemporary Leader

Auteur

RIZA KADILAR, PHD, MBA, is the President of EMCC Global (European Mentoring and Coaching Council). He has 30 years' experience as a senior executive in the European banking sector, is a sought-after speaker, and has acted as a visiting professor at leading universities. Kadilar offers mentoring and coaching services for C-level management, founders, and investors at startups, corporates, and financial institutions. He focuses particularly on growth and compliance issues and the creation of high-performing, inclusive leadership teams.

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Strategies and tools to become a better leader by developing an inclusive perspective at work

Instead of seeing inclusiveness as a "trendy concept," The Contemporary Leader: The Value of Inclusion in Successful Leadership shows its audience on how inclusion is an emotion that is achieved only through effective practice abilities. This book delves into what inclusiveness promises us, discusses the relationship between inclusiveness, productivity, and diversity, evaluates concepts that are useful for us to increase our capacity for inclusion and looks at the obstacles that stand in the way of inclusion (such as unconscious prejudices) to help teach readers understand how to change and become an inclusive leader.

Written by Dr. Riza Kadilar, President of European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC Global), this book explores topics including:

• How inclusion is effected when people feel respected, valued, trusted and safe, have a sense of belonging and are able to be their best self
• Why diversity in aspects like age, appearance, culture and education can be turned into a benefit for any organisation

• Why leaders must regard the differences, and not be regardless of the differences, of their team members
  The Contemporary Leader earns a well deserved spot on the bookshelves of all coaches and mentors, business leaders, HR professionals and managers who seek to reinvent their perspective surrounding timely interpersonal topics and achieve greater organisational cohesiveness and success as a result.

Contenu

Foreword ix

Acknowledgements xi

Introduction xiii

1 Why Inclusion and Why Now? 1

What Do We Mean by Inclusion? 3

To What Change Does Inclusion Owe Its Current Importance? 5

2 The Relationship Between the Concepts of Inclusion, Productivity, and Diversity 27

Performance and Productivity, and Inclusion 29

Diversity and Inclusion 32

Psychological Diversity 34

Diversity Fuelled by Our Backdrop Stories 38

3 Leadership and Inclusion 41

Leadership Paradigms 45

The Place of the Concept of Leadership in My Life 59

4 Factors Affecting Our Capacity for Inclusion 63

Making Our Emotions Functional 65

Empathy 75

Power and How We Use Our Own 89

Trusting and Feeling Safe 91

Unconscious Biases 101

Project Implicit: Unconscious Associations 103

Cognitive Dissonance 112

Our Privileges 126

What We Exclude 130

Belonging and Independence 132

Invisibility and Being Excluded 138

5 Inclusion in the Personal Development Journey 145

A Memory 148

Growth Mindset 151

Developing a Growth Mindset 153

Learned Optimism 161

6 Inclusion Development Model in the Institutional Context 167

Institutional Inclusion Barometer 173

Development Strategy for Institutional Inclusion Capacity 175

7 Final Words 195

So How Shall We Design Our Futures in Light of These Developments? 197

If We Were to Give Advice to Ourselves from the Future 199

8 Sources for Inspiration 203

From Japanese Culture 205

The Athena Doctrine 209

Resilience 212

Change Management, Gestalt, and Coaching 228

Mentoring 240

Situational Leadership 253

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 257

Advice for a Data Scientist 265

Index 275