This week’s post is about the importance of risk and speaking up even when you don’t know how others will react to your statement.  Clients constantly tell me that they held ideas in for years because past leaders either ignored the comments or ridiculed the ideas.

None of us like to be ignored or ridiculed.  I totally understand this concept.  I challenge all my clients to make a plan to communicate their ideas to leadership.  Once they feel comfortable with the plan, they share the ideas.  85% report back to me that not only were the ideas implemented, leadership appreciated the candor.  15% didn’t have the same positive experience about their communication-mainly because of poor leaders who either micromanaged or didn’t listen to the input from employees.

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