Leading Diverse Communities A How-To Guide for Moving from Healing Into Action [Paperback]

Based on the National Coalition Building Institute’s popular leadership development program, Leading Diverse Communities gives community, campus, nonprofit, and business leaders the tools they need to embrace diversity and encourage their stakeholders to do the same. The book is filled with practical guidance on how to achieve results and provides a simple, skill-oriented guidebook for busy leaders. Leading Diverse Communities distills the National Coalition Building Institute’s wisdom into thirty-two concise leadership principles. Each principle is illuminated with theory and a related example, activity, and worksheet that can help develop the skills required to put a particular principle into practice. Acknowledgments.

The Authors.

About NCBI.

Introduction.

CHAPTER ONE: Building Environments to Welcome Diversity.

PRINCIPLE ONE Guilt is the glue that holds prejudice in place.

PRINCIPLE TWO Welcoming diversity means every person counts and every issue counts.

PRINCIPLE THREE Treating everyone the same may be unintentionally oppressive.

PRINCIPLE FOUR Meetings go better when everyone is included.

PRINCIPLE FIVE Recognize and work with the diversity already present in what appear to be homogeneous groups.

PRINCIPLE SIX People can take on tough issues more readily when the issues are presented in a spirit of hope.

PRINCIPLE SEVEN Building a team around us is the most powerful way to bring about institutional change.

Principles in Action Durham, North Carolina.