Take ownership of your work and unleash the power of agency in your organization!

To help give employees the power, influence, and voice necessary to truly excel in their workplace, organizational development experts Miller and Katz reveal the importance of agency and offer practical advice on how to achieve it.

With more knowledge workers entering the workplace, many are being stifled by traditional employee-manager relationships that hamper their ability to fully contribute and feel engaged at work. And in a constantly changing and competitive world of work, organizations must evolve to keep up with worker satisfaction or else face a decrease in performance and loss in talent.

The solution? Enabling your employees to exercise their individual agency in the workplace. Through an actionable roadmap that highlights common pitfalls and practical steps necessary for establishing a culture of greater agency, this book will provide individuals, teams, managers, and leaders with concrete ways to clarify their current level of agency and identifies specific actions they can take to exercise greater individual and team agency.

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For four decades, the authors of this powerful new book have helped organizations, large and small, transform their cultures to be more inclusive and made diversity a strength. In this book, Fred Miller, Monica Biggs, and Judith Katz share their experience using “change champions” for cultural transformation, rapidly changing the core narratives in an organization that shifts day-to-day conversations, actions, and decisions in positive directions.

Change champions are people from all parts of an organization who volunteer to be advocates for a new way of thinking, talking, and acting. This short book shows you how to prepare leaders for a change champion intervention, how to select change champions, and the critical process of building this group into a connected, caring community by ensuring each of the champions goes through a transformational journey personally and collectively. You learn how to support the initial activities of change champions as they advocate for change in their day-to-day work, how to help their supervisors support their change champion, and how the change champion’s role evolves as the culture shifts in the direction you are trying to go and becomes ready for bigger shifts.

Numerous examples and cases will demonstrate the different steps in the unfolding change champion journey to produce a more inclusive organization. This book is a key resource for those wanting to improve inclusion, leverage diversity, equity, and access to achieve higher organizational performance.

But this book is more than that, as the change champion method can be adapted for any change requiring an organization-wide shift in thinking and acting. Leaders and professionals who have struggled to increase, for example, safety, sustainability, psychological safety, customer focus, and even cost consciousness may find the change champion approach just what they need to break through the resistance of a strong culture.

The change champion method is a different kind of Dialogic OD intervention from the others in our series, but it meets all the criteria for Dialogic OD, fits well with a Dialogic Mindset, and is a proven method for fundamentally transforming organizational culture.

Judith H. Katz and Frederick A. Miller

Do you feel safe enough to:
…speak up and speak out at work?
…be your best self so you can do your best work?
…report a problem with a product or a process? How about with a colleague, team leader, or senior leader?
…offer your best ideas?

In this book, Fred & Judith explore interaction safety—what it is, why it has the power to make or break performance at every level, and the mindsets and behaviors needed to make organizations safe enough for people to contribute their best thinking and selves…safe enough to soar!

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Judith H. Katz and Frederick A. Miller

Organizations are only as productive as the interactions that take place within them. How can we enhance these interactions - and so achieve higher performance? Through 4 Keys that change the nature and quality of every interaction. In Opening Doors, authors Katz and Miller describe how leaning into discomfort, listening as an ally, sharing intent and intensity, and sharing “street corners” can open doors to greater success for every individual, every group, every team, every initiative, every strategy, and the entire organization. The book also explores the one critical decision behind every interaction-Judging or Joining the other person-and how it can transform our ability to partner with others and do our best work together.

For more information about the book, including an excerpt, click here.

Judith H. Katz and Frederick A. Miller (Berrett-Koehler, 2008)

Too many people have decided that the safest way to get through life is to be small. But organizations need people to step up and Be BIG. People must bring more of themselves to the workplace in order to contribute more and have a bigger impact. Winner of the 2009 National Indie Excellence Award for Regional Nonfiction and the 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Motivational, Be BIG challenges all of us to show up more fully to work - as individuals and in our interactions with others - as we find ways to Be BIG together.

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The Nibble Theory and the Kernel of Power

Kaleel Jamison (Paulist Press, 1984 & 2004)

More than 190,000 copies sold!

2008 Top 30 Books Every IT Leader Must Read

Every human being is unique, with a special contribution to make. Frequently, however, others deny our capabilities. They "nibble" at us in an effort to diminish our uniqueness. With lighthearted prose and illustrations, The Nibble Theory describes how this process works and what we can do about it. The book teaches us how to stop nibbling at ourselves and how to get in touch with our own power and growth potential.

For more information about the book, including an excerpt, click here.

Frederick A. Miller and Judith H. Katz (Berrett-Koehler, 2002)

The Inclusion Breakthrough proves that making diversity and inclusion a central part of organizational strategy, rather than a peripheral program, can help organizations achieve success and gain competitive advantage. The authors show precisely how to implement a specific, tested, and proven methodology for systemic change that will unleash the nearly boundless creativity and productivity of any organization's greatest resource: its people. Based on real-world business practices, The Inclusion Breakthrough presents practical strategies for systemic change that will lead to a more powerful and passionate workforce and an improved bottom line.

For more information about the book, including an excerpt, click here.

Judith H. Katz (University of Oklahoma Press, 2003, 25th anniversary edition)

Responding to the challenge of creating a learning environment for effectively addressing racism, White Awareness provides a detailed step-by-step guide through six stages of learning, from awareness to action. The exercises within each of the stages focus on key themes: defining racism and its inconsistencies, confronting the reality of racism, exploring aspects and implications of white culture and identity, understanding cultural differences and examining cultural racism, analyzing individual racism, and developing action strategies to combat racism. The detailed program outlined in White Awareness has proved valuable in educational, business, community, and military settings.

The newly revised edition includes more than 40 activities with instructions for conducting each exercise, as well as recommended readings and sources for use in the activities. Also included are new source information, insights on President Bill Clinton's 1998 "Initiative on Race," and an analysis of controversial research on racism as a mental disorder.

Edited by Elsie Y. Cross, Judith H. Katz, Frederick A. Miller, and Edie Seashore (Irwin Professional Publishing/NTL Institute, 1994)

This groundbreaking collection of insightful essays represents the best thinking on diversity issues by the people who are defining the field. A contemporary, future-focused anthology, it represents the views of over 40 leaders, researchers, and practitioners who are actively working to address issues of oppression and diversity in organizations. Their enlightening essays cover such topics as:

• Throwing away the "melting pot" idea and regarding diversity as a strength
• Optimizing the value of individual difference through an organizational systems approach
• Developing cross-gender partnerships
• The white male's current position at the intersection of race and gender
• Sexual orientation as a workforce diversity issue
• The problems faced by white women and women of color

Edited by W. Brendan Reddy and Kaleel Jamison (University Associates, Inc./NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science, 1988)

Team building has come of age and has evolved into a frequent "intervention of choice." Managers in both profit-making and not-for-profit organizations recognized the importance of quick responses to crises, thoughtful planning and dthe full use of human resources in solving complex problems. Written for the team builder and the manager considering team building, this book was created in response to the need to feature what is occuring in the field and thus is written by experts in the practice of team building. The 19 chapters address a wide range of team building issues and attractions including fundamentals, theory and dynamics, applications, clients and consultants and multiculturalism.