Getting Employees to Speak Up
Here’s the deal: Your organization is probably a lot smarter than it’s acting. For a host of reasons, some of them structural, and some of them personal, employees are often encouraged not to offer their best input. Although a small number of flamingly outspoken employees often get a lot of attention, a much graver threat to your organization’s survival is the much larger number of employees who are quietly encouraged, day after day, to keep their good ideas to themselves.
Don’t keep valuable ideas and critical advice that just might save the day locked up inside of your employees. Help them help the company by opening up resilient lines of communication at your workplace. You can’t demand crucial, vital communication between employees and managers—you have to encourage it. Mouthpeace Consulting’s Getting Employees to Speak Up class will show you how.
What are the benefits of attending a Getting Employees to Speak Up class?
- Your employees are your eyes and ears inside the organization and on the front lines. If they don’t feel like they can tell you what they are seeing and hearing, you will be at a significant disadvantage.
- Employees who feel like they have a voice in your organization are more committed to your company’s success and less likely to be out hunting for another job.
- By opening up the information flow between workers and managers, you can help prevent some organizational issues from escalating into damaging problems.
- You will learn how to get employees to share their best ideas.
- You will learn ways to create positive feedback loops for organizational innovation and creative problem solving.
- You will have an opportunity to candidly assess the limits on open exchange of knowledge in your organization.
- You will learn ways to open up valuable, but usually quiet, employees.
Who should attend a Getting Employees to Speak Up class?
- Any manager who wants to get the best communication, ideas, and information from employees.
- Employees concerned that their best ideas are not emerging at work due to the immediate work environment or a larger organizational structure that stifles the free exchange of information.
- Employees who work in teams.
- Managers who are concerned about the output from their work teams.
- Anyone who wants to learn ways to build and support open lines of organizational communication.
Here is a selection of the information that is covered during the Getting Employees to Speak Up class:
- How to encourage employees to share knowledge and information for the greater good of the company.
- Ways to create the conditions where candid, productive communication replaces unhelpful criticism and chronic denial of solvable problems.
- How to help employees get used to listening to ideas, even if they are (to put it charitably) unusual.
- Ways to foster a climate where subordinates aren’t afraid to share their ideas, no matter who else is in the room.
- Techniques for working together to solve novel problems by readily sharing and advancing organizational knowledge.
- How to identify and remove impediments to healthy employee communication
- Ways to encourage crucial organizational communication to emerge,
even when the information is negative or sensitive. - How to repair frayed relationships between employees and managers
- How to get a dysfunctional team talking—and working—again.
Class formats:
- Available in 2-day & 1-day small group workshop format.
- Half-day or full-day unlimited capacity format.
- Individual phone coaching also available.
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