Speak-Up Culture: When Leaders Truly Listen, People Step Up [9781774582848]

Overview

"A must-read for any leader who wants to cultivate the psychological safety required for people to speak up." — Amy Edmondson, Harvard Business School

"Shedletzky will walk you through exactly how to listen so your team will speak up and step up. Essential!”" — Kim Scott, author of Radical Candor

"A critical element for any high-performing team." — Rich Diviney, retired Navy SEAL Commander

Speak-Up Culture gives leaders a proven, practical framework for building psychological safety at work.

Stephen Shedletzky spent more than a decade working alongside Simon Sinek, serving as Chief of Staff and Head of Brand Experience. In Speak-Up Culture, he shares research-backed leadership principles, case studies and engaging anecdotes for fostering psychological safety, building trust, and creating workplaces where people are willing to speak up.

There is a cost to poor leadership: lackluster performance, missed opportunities, and even disaster. When people stay silent, organizations pay the price. Yet leaders have the power to create something different: a speak-up culture where people feel it is both safe and worth it to share ideas, feedback, concerns, disagreements, and mistakes. Researchers call this psychological safety.

In Speak-Up Culture, you will learn to:

• Identify the behaviors that make speaking up feel risky


• Build psychological safety through everyday leadership actions


• Encourage constructive dissent and better decision-making


• Recognize and remove the barriers that keep people silent


• Create a culture where speaking up becomes the norm