How do you create space and safety for employees to share challenging feedback with your organization’s leadership?
Gathering everyone for a big town hall meeting is a common strategy that leaders select. In practice, though, it’s a big reach.
Expecting issues to emerge in a large group is a possibility. It demands, though, that some individuals are fearless and outspoken. Alternatively, it takes a situation that is so far gone that you can be confident in anger surfacing and spilling out even when group dynamics work against honesty and authenticity.
Here is a fantastic alternative that Brainzooming recommends: provide an opportunity for anonymous, authentic input.
In this type of environment, your odds of hearing truthful perspectives will be greater.
Here are four question sets that we’ve used within our Blast! online collaboration platform to support employees in sharing challenging perspectives. Each fosters sharing honest, authentic positives and challenges in its own way.
We’ve used variations of all of these within a safe, anonymous environment. They all uncover issues that would never surface in a small meeting, let alone an all-department or all-company one.
Do you suspect that you have problems related to performance challenges where you lack full insight?
If so, let’s chat.
We can cover your questions about the dynamics, plus we’ll share ideas that we’ve seen work. We can point you to other free tools on the Brainzooming website to foster authentic input and robust collaboration, even in difficult organization cultures. - Mike Brown