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

Description

“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

This is the practical and engaging guide to building psychological safety, earning trust, and creating workplaces where people contribute their best thinking and efforts.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Stephen Shedletzky
Published: 10/03/2023
Publisher: Page Two Books, Inc.
ISBN: 9781774582848
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 0.34″ H x 8.52″ L x 5.61″ W

About the Author

Stephen Shedletzky–or “Shed” to his friends– helps leaders make it safe and worth it for people to speak up. He supports humble leaders–those who know they are both a part of the problems they experience and the solutions they can create– as they put their people and purpose first. A sought-after speaker, coach, and advisor, Shed has led hundreds of keynote presentations, workshops, and leadership development programs around the world. As a thought-leader on psychological safety in the workplace, he works with leaders in all industries where human beings work.

After years on a corporate track, Shed was introduced to and inspired by the work of best-selling author and TED speaker Simon Sinek and, soon after meeting him, became the fourth person to join his team. For more than a decade, Shed contributed at Simon Sinek, where, as Chief of Staff and Head of Brand Experience, Training & Product Development, he led a global team of speakers and facilitators.

Shed graduated from the Richard Ivey School of Business with a focus on leadership, communication, and strategy. He received his coaching certification from The Co-Active Training Institute. He lives in Toronto with his wife and two young children