How to Engineer a Speak-Up Culture
from The Leader Factor Hosted by LeaderFactor
peak-up culture isn't something you get by accident — it's something leaders have to engineer, one deliberate move at a time. Dr. Tim Clark and Junior break down why silence is the rational choice by default, why your best people leave first when the cost of speaking up gets too high, and the four concrete moves leaders use to bring that cost down. Every organization says it wants a speak-up culture, but very few are willing to pay for one — so they pay the price of silence instead. In this episode, Dr. Tim Clark and LeaderFactor COO Junior make the case that speaking up is never natural: it's an unnatural state that has to be deliberately engineered, because silence is almost always the individually rational choice. Drawing on a dataset of over 81,000 responses, they show that challenger safety — the stage where people feel safe challenging the status quo — is the lowest-scoring stage in 99.3% of organizations, across every industry and nearly every language in their global database.
Embed this episode
No transcript yet.