NLI sorts speaking up into three distinct categories: sharing your ideas, questioning other people’s decisions, and challenging other people’s behavior.

These categories sit on a continuum – known as the Speaking UP Continuum – which ranges from least threatening to most threatening.

One reason this continuum is so important is that if people can’t speak up about the smaller stuff, they may not speak up about the bigger stuff.

• How are you building safe cultures that support employees to speak up?
• What are some of the safety structure that you want to build?
• How will you gather information from your employees about what they need?

NeuroLeadership Institute Perspectives: 7-2020
We are grateful to NLI for all the research they do and share, via webinars, books and research papers. Permission requested and compiled by Kathy Kee.

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