Can Your Employees Really Speak Freely?
Leaders often wish for their staff to share their opinions and doubts. Yet, the latter tend to refrain through fear of consequences. How can we overcome this reluctance?
Author(s): James R. Detert, Ethan R. Burris
Publisher: Harvard Business Review
Date of publication: 2016
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Synopsis
This article is one of the sources used in Manageris’ synopses:
Get back into the habit of asking questions
Business leaders are rarely represented as people who question themselves. Yet, managers should be equally able to question as they are to affirm; but it seems this capability has somewhat been lost. How to get it back?
Thinking differently
We all have a natural preference for what is familiar to us. Yet, to adapt to circumstances, companies and their staff must constantly reinvent themselves, which requires that they get out of their usual thinking patterns. How can you nurture this healthy habit?