The Neurodiversity Playbook
The Neurodiversity Playbook

Author: Matthew Zakreski, Psy.D.

Publisher: SCB Distributors

Published: 2024-11-08

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1953360424

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This book represents a summation of a decade’s worth of therapy, research, workshops, and presentations around the unique aspects of social-emotional development in the neurodivergent community. The book grounds its approach in neuroscience and then applies those data to how our brains impact our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. As a child psychologist who specializes in working with this population, I pride myself on identifying the challenging aspects of having a different brain and empowering kids to manage those differences. As such, this book will contain sections that directly address the parts of being gifted that have traditionally been emphasized less: making friends, maintaining relationships, regulating emotions, communicating your feelings and needs appropriately, and being able to identify contextual factors to understand why people are acting the way they are. Naming the issues is one thing, but each section will contain case examples, clinical advice, and tangible skills that will help students grow in the areas of social-emotional learning (SEL). These skills are deliverable, generalizable, and appropriate for school, home, and the community. Most importantly, they work. I often say that I want my clients to have a little “pocket Dr. Matt” to help them navigate the world; this book is my attempt at creating that kind of external support.

The Intercultural Communication Playbook
The Intercultural Communication Playbook

Author: Teri Kwal Gamble

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2023-12-27

Total Pages: 810

ISBN-13: 1071830082

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Featuring a three-prong approach on culture, communication, and creative problem solving, The Intercultural Communication Playbook, with its unique, user-friendly layout and presentation, highlights how active, imaginative, and productive problem-solving methods can transform the way students understand intercultural communication. This framework from authors Teri Kwal Gamble, Michael W. Gamble, and Xiaowen Guan guides learners to understand their intercultural identity, broaden their worldview, and successfully improve their communication in real-world settings. Each chapter features exercises that encourage students to diversify their everyday thinking, individually examine their personal preferences, eliminate mental barriers, and discover innovative solutions to intercultural communication challenges. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package. Contact your Sage representative to request a demo. Learning Platform / Courseware Sage Vantage is an intuitive learning platform that integrates quality Sage textbook content with assignable multimedia activities and auto-graded assessments to drive student engagement and ensure accountability. Unparalleled in its ease of use and built for dynamic teaching and learning, Vantage offers customizable LMS integration and best-in-class support. It′s a learning platform you, and your students, will actually love. Learn more. Assignable Video with Assessment Assignable video (available in Sage Vantage) is tied to learning objectives and curated exclusively for this text to bring concepts to life. LMS Cartridge: Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don′t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site. Learn more.

Neurodiversity at Work
Neurodiversity at Work

Author: Amanda Kirby

Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers

Published: 2021-08-03

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1398600253

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WINNER: Business Book Awards 2022 - Diversity, Inclusion & Equality Category SHORTLISTED: getAbstract International Book Award 2022- Learning Impact Category An organization's employees are its biggest competitive advantage. Performance gains can be achieved through cost saving, process improvement or technology adoption, but the biggest difference is made by people. This means that recruiting, engaging and retaining the very best talent has never been more important. Crucially, these employees should be a diverse group of people with different approaches, skills and strengths in problem-solving and driving innovation. As well as focusing on gender, race, age and class, it is critical that businesses also develop a neurodiverse workforce if they are committed to outperforming the competition and achieving sustainable business growth. Neurodiversity at Work is a practical guide that explains what neurodiversity is, why it's important and what the benefits are. It covers how to attract, recruit and engage neurodiverse talent and provides guidance on how to adapt HR policies, processes and workplaces to ensure that all employees, including the 2 in 10 employees in the UK who are neurodiverse, can reach their full potential. Neurodiversity at Work is packed full of case studies from leading organizations like Microsoft who are already seeing the productivity, performance and financial benefits of neurodiversity in the workplace. Individuals in these companies are also experiencing benefits in their working environments. Also featured are interviews with prominent figures in the neurodiversity community and people who have successfully adapted their HR processes for neurodiversity, including members of the ND@IBM Program and the Head of People and Culture at Autotrader. With tips, advice, examples and 'how to' actions in every chapter, this is essential reading for every HR professional.

The Polyvagal Parenting Playbook
The Polyvagal Parenting Playbook

Author: Augusta Hattie Doherty

Publisher: Gaius Quill Publishing

Published: 2024-03-06

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1738553310

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The Polyvagal Parenting Playbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Interactive Strategies for Every Age and Stage offers a revolutionary approach to parenting, blending the science of polyvagal theory with practical, hands-on strategies to foster deep emotional connections and resilience in children. This groundbreaking book guides parents, educators, and caregivers through the intricacies of the nervous system, revealing how it influences behavior, emotions, and social interactions. Within its pages, readers will discover a new lens through which to view parenting, one that emphasizes the importance of creating a sense of safety and nurturing relationships that support children's innate ability to thrive. The book is structured to address the unique challenges and opportunities presented at each developmental stage, from the tender early years through the dynamic period of adolescence. Key Features: Foundational Insights into Polyvagal Theory: Understand the science behind your child's emotional and behavioral responses, and how to use this knowledge to foster a supportive environment. Age-Specific Strategies: Navigate the changing landscape of your child's needs with strategies and activities designed to promote emotional well-being, social skills, and self-regulation at every age. Building Connection and Safety: Learn techniques to strengthen your bond with your child, creating a foundation of trust and security that supports their development and learning. Practical Activities and Reflections: Engage with a variety of exercises and reflective questions that encourage hands-on application of polyvagal principles, enhancing your parenting skills and deepening your understanding of your child. Navigating Challenges: From managing tantrums to encouraging independence in teenagers, find solutions to common parenting dilemmas, grounded in compassionate communication and understanding. Fostering a Supportive Community: Tips and guidance on building a "village" of support, leveraging relationships with family, friends, and professionals to enrich your child's growth and development. The Polyvagal Parenting Playbook is more than just a book; it's a journey towards a more empathetic, informed, and connected approach to raising children. It invites readers to shift perspectives, embrace new strategies, and celebrate the profound impact of nurturing relationships on child development. Whether you are a new parent seeking guidance or a seasoned caregiver looking to deepen your understanding of child psychology, this book offers valuable insights and tools to support you in the rewarding journey of parenting.

The CARE Principles - Leadership Playbook
The CARE Principles - Leadership Playbook

Author: Isabel Verstraete

Publisher: Lannoo Meulenhoff - Belgium

Published: 2024-10-15

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9401437998

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Are you ready to lead with purpose and trust? Do you want to grow 3 times faster than your competitors? Are you ready to inspire all generations in your teams? Step into a new era of leadership with The CARE Principles Leadership Playbook. With only 23% of the workforce engaged, Verstraete shows how the CARE Principlescan empower diverse generations. She advocates for leadership from the heart -focusing on care, engagement and trust. Her 20-step guide demonstrateshow Collaboration, Agility, Reliability, and Empathy can transform teams and drive engagement. Whether you're experienced or just starting out, this playbookprovides the tools to inspire, empower, and unite your team. 'Great performance is a result of great care. Thank you for your courageous leadership and showing the way again, Isabel. Let's play!' - Anouk Lagae, Co-Founding Mother of Muchin 'Isabel provides a new, exciting and proven way of how to get all layers and generations in your organization engaged and empowered. It makes your organization and the world a better place—it is our place to be!' - Henry Robben, Professor of Marketing at Nyenrode Business Universiteit 'Isabel, thank you for reshaping our understanding of leadership in this era of transition. Your principles remind us that care is not just a value, but the foundation for meaningful and sustainable growth.' - Marie Thiers, CEO & Benoit Filliers, Distillery Director Filliers Distillery 'CARE is the core of each future proof organization; Collaboration is far more powerful than competition. Reliability & Empathy are the new gold in this fast changing, Agile world.' - Jim Lippens, Founder Happiness at Work Experience

Neurodiversity in the Workplace
Neurodiversity in the Workplace

Author: Susanne M. Bruyère

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-07-01

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 1000604292

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Neurodiversity in the Workplace presents a timely and needed perspective on the role and responsibility of employers and those working to increase the effectiveness of workplace practices to examine the many ways we preclude large segments of the population from employment; minimizing opportunities for building a truly inclusive work environment. This collection provides an opportunity to look at how discrimination can occur across the employment process and what can be done to minimize the exclusionary practices that prevent neurodiverse individuals from getting into the workplace, advancing, thriving, and contributing as each of us desires to do. With expertise from leading professionals, this book provides a holistic look at the application of leadership theories in a neurodiverse context and how the workplace can be adapted to accommodate for neurodiverse employees. This book also explores effective recruitment strategies by looking into applicant screening as well as interviewing and selection, adapting internal organizational resources to a neurodiverse workforce, and legal and regulatory environment considerations for autism hiring programs. Each chapter provides an overview of existing knowledge on effective workplace inclusion practices across the employment process, specific implications of research to date for a more neurodiversity-inclusive workplace, and what future research is needed to further inform these practices. This volume is intended to increase awareness about the challenges and opportunities in making the workplace more neurodiversity-inclusive, making it instrumental for I/O and other psychologists. This book is also crucial for management and business consultants; employers; diversity, equity, and inclusion specialists; human resource professionals; and others interested in neurodiversity inclusion more broadly.

The Neurodiversity Edge
The Neurodiversity Edge

Author: Maureen Dunne

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2024-03-05

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1394199295

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National Bestseller A Porchlight Book Company Top New Release In The Neurodiversity Edge, renowned Oxford-trained cognitive scientist, neurodiversity expert, and business leader, Dr. Maureen Dunne presents a pioneering framework to harnessing the power of neurodiversity to navigate the most important human resources revolution in the modern era. Did you know that an estimated 1 in 5 people are “neurodivergent”—have a mind that works differently, such as the autistic, ADHDers, the dyslexic, synesthetes, and other unique neurotypes—and that the vast majority are motivated, capable, and unemployed? This indispensable guide is based on more than two decades of immersive cognitive science research, case studies, stories from neurodivergent voices, in-the-trenches work with hundreds of organizations from start-ups to global Fortune 500 titans, and Dr. Dunne's own lived experiences as a neurodivergent employer, entrepreneur, board member, and CEO. Too many unique minds and perspectives on the sidelines, and too many organizations beset by groupthink, innovation-stagnation, and a lack of access to qualified new candidates. The Neurodiversity Edge takes you all the way from why to what and to how, delivering practical insights that build on a new foundational framework: Cultivate a values-driven approach to building a culture of sustained authentic inclusion where everyone can thrive How to improve the interview process to avoid missing game-changing talent Develop a hybrid office protocol that works for everyone and a support infrastructure that aligns with universal design principles Discover why Google's Project Aristotle found that innovation and performance hinge on psychological safety Uncover and eliminate the destructive influence of unconscious cognitive biases Take a graphic tour into the wonders of the human mind Understand unique problem-solving abilities such as lateral thinking, visual-spatial thinking, multisensory thinking, leaps of creative insight, hyperfocus, and many more How to articulate and implement organizational goals and measure progress toward them The Neurodiversity Edge is an essential guide for executives, board directors, human resources professionals, managers, recruiters, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, allies, educators, nonprofit leaders, and anyone with an interest in better understanding neurodiversity, authentic neuroinclusion, and the human mind.

Talking the Talk About Autism
Talking the Talk About Autism

Author: Haley Moss

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published: 2024-11-21

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1839978570

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As autistic self-advocates, our personal stories hold a lot of power: they are sources of strength, tales of overcoming barriers and adversity, and a way for us to assert agency and receive the support we might need. But how do you actually disclose your diagnosis? How do you tell teachers, support staff, colleagues, friends, or anybody else about your disability and account for their varied reactions? Or, if you're a parent or ally, how do you tell the person you're supporting about their own neurodivergent identity and culture? Disclosure is often a thorny topic, but in this powerful and supportive book, Haley Moss explores the language, history, and stigmas that influence how people perceive autism, breaking down ways to approach conversations about neurodivergence in different contexts. By deconstructing fears around disclosure, Talking the Talk About Autism shows how the experience can be made more impactful, safe, and less nerve-wracking for all those involved.

Managing for Social Justice
Managing for Social Justice

Author: Latha Poonamallee

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-01-30

Total Pages: 563

ISBN-13: 3031199715

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The book introduces a preliminary, integrative conceptual framework on the intersections between management and social justice with a view that the quest for social justice is not an endpoint rather an ongoing journey. With contributions from management scholars and practitioners, it highlights, examines, and explores the continuities and discontinuities, gains and losses, and struggles and successes in this quest for reimagining organizations as sites and vehicles for advancing social justice in the world. To nurture and facilitate flourishing individuals and collectives, we need bolder, more innovative, and more creative models of engagement. Further, we need models for speaking and learning from different perspectives and building common ground through shared values of equity, connectivity, and compassion and moral expansiveness while recognizing the complexities of the world we inhabit via our organizations and the need to develop nuanced understandings of the same. Contributing authors address questions such as: Are social justice and management mutually exclusive concepts? How can we draw on effective management for advancing social justice aims? How do we bend the arc of organizational life towards more justice? What are the rights and obligations of organizations and their members to the world at large, and to their local communities and societies? Through its re-imagining of organizations and management as vehicles for social justice instead of just as tools of oppression, injustice, or regressive organizing in an extractive economy, this book brings together critical and positive organizational approaches challenging fundamental assumptions about how our society, people’s collectives, and workplaces are organized with capacity building, incremental change, sustained change, institutionalized change, dynamic ongoing problem-solving/ assessment/ redesign, and more. Management scholars will learn the nuanced and complex intersections between management theories and practice and different types of justice/injustice in a global context both as antecedents to modern organizations and workplaces and the ways in which these intersectional actors advance and change the organizations and workplaces of the future.

The Canary Code
The Canary Code

Author: Ludmila N. Praslova

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Published: 2024-04-23

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1523005866

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Exclusion robs people of opportunities, and it robs organizations of talent. In the long run, exclusionary systems are lose-lose. How do we build win-win organizational systems? From a member of the Thinkers50 2024 Radar cohort of global management thinkers most likely to impact workplaces and the first person to have written for Harvard Business Review from an autistic perspective comes The Canary Code—a guide to win-win workplaces. Healthy systems that support talent most impacted by organizational ills—canaries in the coal mine—support everyone. Currently, despite their skills and work ethics, members of ADHD, autism, Tourette Syndrome, learning differences, and related communities face drastic barriers to hiring and advancement. In the U.S., 30-40% of neurodivergent people and 85% of autistic college graduates struggle with unemployment. Like canaries in the mine, they are impacted by issues that ultimately harm everyone. Lack of flexibility, transparency, and psychological safety excludes neurodivergent, disabled, and multiply marginalized talent—and leaves most employees stressed and disengaged. This unique book is a guide to change-making for CEOs, managers, HR leaders, and everyone who wants to contribute to building a more inclusive world. The authors' over 25 years of experience spanning global diversity to neurodiversity leadership and extensive research on innovative practices of uniquely inclusive organizations around the world inform this books': Explicitly intersectional approach to (neuro)inclusion Holistic understanding of humans and their social, cognitive, emotional, and physical differences. Holistic approach to organizational talent practices, from creating job descriptions and recruiting to onboarding, performance management, and leadership development. A globally inclusive approach that centers, celebrates and invites multiple voices from the neurodivergent community. A lead from where you are approach to change-making. This groundbreaking book combines the lived experience with academic rigor, innovative thought leadership, and lively, accessible writing. To support different types of readers, academic, applied, and lived experience content is clearly identified, helping readers choose their own adventure.