Culture of Candor Is Everything: Are You Creating or Killing It?

2020 Annual Conference & Exposition
Key factors affect an organization’s level of openness and candor and the positiveness or toxicity of its culture.

Culture is as simple and complicated as this:  It’s the way we do things around here, the processes we don’t question and the questions we don’t ask. This session explores what’s needed to build and manage a culture of constant candor, so your people can hear and be heard, feel safe taking risks, and speak up. Learn about the five building blocks needed to create, not kill, a culture of candor throughout your organization.

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn how to decide what behaviors and values you’re hiring for and understand that every step of the hiring process is sending signals.  Are you hiring the people you want?
  • Explore the importance of knowing how and when to question a process.
  • Understand what’s needed to bridge the gap between what you and your people are doing every day and the ultimate vision of the organization.
  • Learn how to build a performance culture that supports your ultimate vision and influences the culture you want to see more of.
  • Know why you need to sweat the small stuff when it comes to the actions and behaviors you reward, tolerate or punish.
Date(s) & Time(s): 
Monday, June 29, 2020 - 7:30am to 8:30am
Presenter: 

Dawn Metcalfe

Dawn
Metcalfe

Author, Speaker, Trainer and Leadership Coach Dawn Metcalfe creates cultures of candour in business, empowering people to speak up and listen up with integrity. Cultures where change isn’t feared, but encouraged – where innovation happens by default because people don’t shy away from difficult conversations. Having lived and worked around the world, she’s written three books on diversity, workplace communication and what’s needed to succeed. Dawn is a regular Forbes contributor and speaks to media, on the radio and at global conferences on how to create sustainable cultures of change. 

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