Lifting the Curse of Organizational Silence (3 of 3)

Coaching / Collaboration / High Performing Teams

Think about your organization or work unit. Do they value innovation and employee participation? If you believe the answer is “yes,” read on.

On the other hand, if your organization is truly cursed by silence, and the risk of speaking up far exceeds the value, if you can’t quite decide between apathy or silent resistance, you can skip ahead to the conclusion!

Breaking the hard-trodden soil of silence at the worker-bee level will not be an easy task. It will take a great deal of courage, resilience, and vulnerability. It will also be tough to plow alone. That’s where alliances come in. Let’s work through all of this, one row at a time.

Lifting the Curse of Organizational Silence (2/3)

Coaching / Collaboration / High Performing Teams / Leadership

With a shared definition of the dimensions of silence and voice as well as an understanding of why silence is not golden, let’s explore some of the organizational dynamics and leadership behaviors that cause employees to feel their opinions are not valued and result in disengaged or self-protective behaviors.

Team Safety Check Retrospective

Agile / Coaching / Collaboration / High Performing Teams / Retrospectives

I’ve been thinking a great deal lately about team safety and the curse of organizational silence. That situation where people in all kinds of jobs, all kinds of organizations, all kinds of situations, reach a point where they want to say, “Enough.” They have the same uncomfortable realization: “I should do something about this.” Yet many remain silent. They don’t bring ideas forward.

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