What should people be rooting for? On any message board, just as with product or restaurant reviews, there are negative and positive comments. Acknowledging the failures is a start, but owning the impact they have on people is also important to close the loop on a challenging chapter.ĥ. Sometimes they work, more often they don’t if they are actually risks. Are you behaving with humility? Great leaders swing big and take risks. If people are impacted, it’s critical to acknowledge that and enroll those remaining in supporting both their ongoing colleagues AND those impacted through the changes. People care about people- this is a good thing. While these are both unfortunate and inevitable, ignoring, minimizing or making light of them while communicating organizational shifts buries the lead since even the most engaged employees care more about their colleagues and their personal impacts than even the most inspiring mission. Are you being open and empathetic about people impacts in communications? The types of organizational changes and transformations that make it to a discussion board like Fishbowl tend to involve people impacts.

If something appears misaligned, best to proactively and transparently address that.ģ. If no, people are inclined to note that lack of alignment as hypocrisy which breeds mistrust in leadership. Are your actions aligned with your stated company/ brand values? Same logic as previous- if yes, whether or not they are popular they make sense. If it’s not clear, things are more likely to appear random, unfair, or not strategic and potentially get inaccurate motivations assigned to them.Ģ. Is your vision clear? If people understand clearly what the from/ to end state looks like, they can generally make sense of company decisions along the way whether or not they like them. While it could be tempting to bristle at or ignore what’s posted- it’s some of the most valuable feedback out there.įrom my recent perusing, here’s what I’ve taken away that companies might want to ask themselves to minimize Fishbowl snark (at least a little bit).ġ. The sassy comments people leave about corporate culture and leadership are hilariously well worded and often insightfully spot on. I probably shouldn’t admit this, but one of my guilty pleasures is reading Fishbowl. There’s nothing to fear but fear itself… and dozens more cliches. I doubt the circus will come calling any time soon, but I’m giving it a solid 10/10 for not climbing back down the ladder like I wanted to after looking down from the platform. I ignored some side eye and the fact they double checked my waiver 4 times before climbing an unnervingly rickety ladder to give it a shot.

She’s too old, her insurance probably doesn’t work here, and she’s thinking it’s not a great time for a neck brace… “yeah, maybe another time.” But after cheers of “you always say not to live life in fear!” I navigated a gauntlet of three employees pointing me to a bench repeating “parents can sit there to watch” and choked out a “ummm no? I’d like to try”. While staring at the amazing flying people, I hear my little daughter pipe up “you could do that mommy!” Umm no, mommy couldn’t do that. I lived every cliche in a moment yesterday when my daughters and I encountered an outdoor trapeze studio in Kensington Gardens.

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