Simmer: Disagreeing With Your Manager Requires High Psychological Safety
Sarah Jones Simmer · Sarah Jones Simmer: The Foundation of Trust · Apr 19, 2022 · at 42:15
Sarah Jones Simmer, CEO of Found, outlines how the difference between niceness and kindness manifests in management and employee feedback.
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“Especially in a relationship where potentially you disagree with your manager about something. Often the nice thing to do is be like, okay, sure. Good idea. That, that sounds good. But the kind thing to do would be to push them on their thinking and to feel empowered enough To come forward and share how that idea could be sharpened. I think it's also on the leader in that situation to create enough psychological safety that people are not afraid to tell you have spinach in your teeth or not afraid to tell you that your idea is not strong enough or could be sharpened in some way.”
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