In this follow-up to her international bestseller How Women Rise, Sally Helgesen draws on three decades of work with executives and aspiring leaders around the world to offer practical ways to build more inclusive relationships, teams, and workplaces. Participants at leadership conferences often tell Sally, “Please don’t spend your time telling us why developing and retaining a diverse workforce is important. We get it. The problem is, we don’t know how to do it.” Rising Together provides that missing how in full detail by identifying both what holds us back and specific tactics that can help us move forward. First, Sally identifies the eight common triggers most likely to undermine our ability to collaborate across divides—not only of gender, but also of age, ethnicity, race, sexuality, and life experience. These triggers are widespread, yet rarely acknowledged. They include differences in how people from different backgrounds view ambition, competence, perceptions, fairness, communication, networks, attraction, and humor. Sally then offers specific practices designed to address these triggers: simple behavioral tweaks that we can use on a daily basis; a method for informally enlisting allies to hold us to account; and a means for cultivating and disseminating the dynamic power of we. Rising Together is for readers at every stage and level in their careers who recognize that building a broad range of relationships is essential to their advancement, now and in the future. This book also serves as an indispensable guide for HR, diversity, and leadership professionals tasked with addressing the misunderstandings, resentments, and derailments caused by the eight triggers. Sally’s focus on behaviors—how we act—rather than bias—how we think—promises to redirect the inclusion conversation in a grounded, real-world way that brings us together. Part 1: 8 Common Triggers identifies the triggers most likely to sabotage relationships at work in ways that can undermine careers, teams, and ultimately organizations. These widespread yet mostly unacknowledged triggers include differences in how people approach ambition, competence, perceptions, fairness, communications, networks, attraction, and humor. Par 2: A Template for Change lays out key practices that support our ability to build trusting and fruitful relationships in the workplace. These include the highly specific inclusive behaviors, a method for informally enlisting allies to support the practice of new behaviors, and a means for demonstrating authenticity while trying new approaches. Each chapter uses real-world stories that describe challenges and solutions in narrative detail, all will be drawn from Sally Helgesen's experience working with clients around the world and from the dozens of interviews she will conduct, focusing on male and female executives, professionals, high-potentials and individual contributors in a range of fields and sectors, and high-profile coaches and leadership experts such as Marshall Goldsmith, Tom Peters, Rao Srikumar, Sanyin Siang, Chester Elton and many others. Rising Together is for readers at every stage in their careers who recognize that building effective relationships in the workplace is essential to their future advancement. It is an indispensable resource for HR, diversity, learning and training professionals tasked with addressing the misunderstandings, resentments, and derailments caused by the 8 triggers.