If Employees Could Talk

WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT TODAY? Employee feedback and why it’s often sugar-coated or not fully honest; and by honest we mean brutally honest. It’s essential for leadership career success and business growth for employees to not fear anything when asked to provide input and opinion, but often they feel there will be consequences if they speak out. We look at this problem in detail. WHAT TOPICS DO WE COVER? * Trust in Leadership and its importance to employee feedback * Our Top 5 FEAR factors and some mitigation strategies * When not to ask for feedback; wrong venue - wrong time * Some troubling statistics about how employees view managers * Is it true “You can’t handle the truth!” as a leader asking for feedback? WHAT’S THE TAKE-AWAY? Employees have valuable - read critical - information that leadership can use to better the business fast, but often it’s sugar-coated or withheld due to a set of real employee fears. If you break those fears down, address them properly, and change a few old-fashioned ways, you’ll be surprised at what you can learn. WE USED THESE RESOURCES: Besides our experiences that directly relate to this topic, we found the following resources very helpful in preparing for this episode: Forbes: Ten Shocking Workplace Facts You Needed to Know https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidsturt/2018/03/08/10-shocking-workplace-stats-you-need-to-know/?sh=169716af3afe Harvard Business Review: Why Employees Are Afraid To Speak https://hbr.org/2007/05/why-employees-are-afraid-to-speak My Job Here Is Done podcast episode: Lookie Here - It’s Dunning-Kruger https://www.myjobhereisdone.com/lookie-here-its-dunning-kruger-in-the-flesh/ WHO ARE DAVE AND KELLI? An entrepreneur and intrapreneur duo with street smarts, ‘preneurial’ chops, and a penchant for storytelling. Dave and Kelli met as teenagers and have a life-long story of their own. They took separate and contrasting career paths, both struggling with challenges and celebrating their career successes differently. Over the years, they noticed similarities in their stories about their work, the people they interacted with, and how business was conducted. Kelli, who “worked for the man like a dog for decades,” and Dave, who “started or ran businesses all of his life,” quickly realized there is substantial value for others in those combined experiences. The “My Job Here Is Done” Podcast is the result. HOW TO WORK WITH US Ultimately, you’re building a great business or moving up the career ladder of success, and we absolutely know we can help! If you like what you hear in the podcast, we have more to share with companies that we work with. With the foundation of business experience from Dave and Kelli as a team, in concert with subject matter experts from the rich roster of smart people in our network, we have put these goals, culture themes, and operational processes you hear on the podcast to the test - and they work. If you have a complicated problem to solve, AND you like to play to win in business or soar to new heights in your personal career success - click here to learn how you can work with us.