Do you want to create a culture worth bottling?
Leadership Responsibility:
As a leader, you play a pivotal role in establishing a positive culture. Actively fostering an environment where speaking up is celebrated rewards employees for sharing their insights and concerns.
Psychological Safety:
A core component of speak-up culture is psychological safety.
Empowering team members to voice their opinions without fear of negative consequences encourages open dialogue and constructive feedback.
Engagement and Performance:
Organisations that cultivate a speakup culture tend to be safer, more innovative, and better performing.
Employees who feel empowered to speak up contribute to a more engaged workforce, thereby improving cultural outcomes.
Encourage and Reward
Encourage people to share their ideas, feedback, concerns, disagreements, and mistakes.
Reward them when they do. In doing so, you’ll make it safe and worth it for all people to speak up.
Enact your values. Live out your values, don’t just display them or talk about them inspirationally.
Recognise and reward people when they behave in line with your agreed values, and offer feedback and coaching to those who don’t.
How do we encourage a culture of speaking up?
Culture is like a jar of pickled cucumbers!
“The people are like the slices of pickled cucumber. The culture is the brine they sit in. If you find a sour pickle, it might not be the cucumber that tastes bad, but the brine they sit in”.