BELONGING RULES empowers leaders to bravely approach the challenge of fostering belonging in their organizations, equipping them with five rules for promoting unity, acceptance, and performance. My firm’s decade-long research demonstrates that belonging matters more than employees’ perceptions of organizational culture or strategy for promoting employee engagement, positivity, satisfaction, and performance. Unless leaders invest their energy, time and resources instilling a culture of belonging, they risk losing their most precious resource, their people.
To help leaders create the space necessary for belonging, there are basic research-backed principles that I have found, the Belonging Rules. These are 5 things that leaders and contributors at every level of an organization must consider each and every time they make decisions for themselves, their people, their group, and their company.
WHAT IS BELONGING?
I define belonging as where we hold space for something of shared importance: it is where we come together on values, purpose, and identity; it is a space of acceptance where agreement is not required, but a shared framework is understood; where there is an invitation into the space; it is an intentional choice to take part in; and vital to a sense of connection, security, and acceptance.
CREATING CONNECTION IN A DIVIDED WORLD
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Belonging Rules gives leaders the tools, knowledge, and confidence to harness belonging to address the workplace’s most critical challenges.
Breaking Through
There are many diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) books and viewpoints out there, and this book takes an intentionally different approach to not only inclusion, but leadership by positioning belonging as a larger and more significant, fundamentally human, need. This book takes the narrative further by placing individual leadership and organizational identity at the heart of what continues as an imperative.
Based On Science
This book, supported by research studies, interviews with leaders working in real time through the most pressing, socially charged, and political issues, as well as insider access to successful leaders in high profile companies and institutions, will give leaders at every level not only the permission, but the backbone and tools to redesign the basics of leading in any environment to incorporate today’s business essential, belonging.
Real-life Exercises
Our goal is to challenge you with concepts and original exercises we’ve used to train thousands of leaders, as well as probing questions and insights designed to embolden the leader to address the new fundamentals of self-direction, interconnectedness, and success. Together, the lessons and stories in this book conclusively demonstrate that success is incumbent on a leader’s ability to build the capacity for belonging.
Brad Deutser
Brad Deutser is known for coaching and leading leaders through his company, Deutser, an innovative consultancy that designs a human approach to change. Brad works where most people feel uncomfortable and try to avoid. He is known for actively seeking out challenging and charged environments, as well as societal and politically sensitive ones.
Creating spaces for belonging and initiating constructs to expand leadership in a more human, connective way has been the focus of his work for decades.
Brad’s clients and coaching take him to amazing places — in athletics, aviation, education, entertainment, energy, finance, healthcare, non-profit — with incredibly thoughtful leaders around the world. He takes on the most high-level challenges forging through them with creativity and grace to design and bring to life the most original solutions.
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