Use Your Difference to Make a Differe..., Tayo Rockson
Use Your Difference to Make a Differe..., Tayo Rockson
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Use Your Difference to Make a Difference
How to Connect and Communicate in a Cross-Cultural World

Author: Tayo Rockson

Narrator: Corey Allen

Unabridged: 6 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/29/2019


Synopsis

Recent years have seen dramatic changes to several institutions worldwide. Our increasingly interconnected, digitized, and globalized world presents immense opportunities and unique challenges. Modern businesses and schools interact with individuals and organizations from a diverse range of cultural and national backgrounds-increasing the likelihood for miscommunication, errors in strategy, and unintended consequences in the process. This has also spilled into our daily lives and the way we consume information today. Understanding how to navigate these and other pitfalls requires adaptability, nuanced cross-cultural communication, and effective conflict resolution. Use Your Difference to Make a Difference provides readers with a skills-based, actionable plan that transforms differences into agents of inclusiveness, connection, and mutual understanding. This innovative and timely guide illustrates how to leverage differences to move beyond unconscious biases, manage a culturally-diverse workplace, create an environment for more tolerant schooling environments, more trusted media, communicate across borders, find and retain diverse talent, and bridge the gap between working locally and expanding globally. Expert guidance on a comprehensive range of topics-teamwork, leadership styles, information sharing, delegation, supervision, giving and receiving feedback, coaching and motivation, recruiting, managing suppliers and customers, and more-helps you manage the essential aspects of international relationships and cultural awareness. This valuable resource contains the indispensable knowledge required to: Develop self-awareness needed to be a cross-cultural communicator Develop content, messaging techniques, marketing plans, and business strategies that translate across cultural borders Help your employees to better understand and collaborate with clients and colleagues from different backgrounds Help teachers build safe environments for students to be themselves Strengthen cross-cultural competencies in yourself, your team, and your entire organization Understand the cultural, economic, and political factors surrounding our world Use Your Difference to Make a Difference is a must-have resource for any educator, parent, leader, manager, or team member of an organization that interacts with co-workers and customers from diverse cultural backgrounds.

Reviews

Tayo Rockson brings all he is to this stellar primer and inspiration for anyone and any group/organization/team that seeks to identify and understand biases, differences, privileges, and divisions and co-create awesome ideas on how to make a positive difference in the world. A must read for leadersh......more

***I want to say a special thank you to Tayo Rockson for the opportunity to review his book and providing an ARC**** 📚 📚 "In our fast-paced world of reactiveness and radioactivity, we sometimes forget to paint our full pictures.." 📚 📚 "Use Your Difference To Make A Difference " by Tayo Rockson is an exper......more

This is a fine, very introductory book about cross-cultural interaction and could be a good fit for young teenagers or others brand new to thinking about identity, diversity, equity, and inclusion. I am a higher education administrator and was seeking a text to offer my students; unfortunately, this......more

Goodreads review by Kaelyn

Though it address communication and connection, it is a book directed to what is happening today in America. The book was not what I thought it was going to be, but does give practical things to journal/ work through, especially in understanding your own bias. This would not be the best book for act......more

Goodreads review by Marie

I genuinely believe the World has been waiting for this book!! The author does an amazing job at articulating so many relevant topics that should inspire us all to “Use our differences to make a difference” make this world a better place. The book is magnificent and empowering!! I highly Recommend t......more