🎙️ On the next episode of Minds Worth Meeting, leadership and dialogue expert Megan Reitz joins us to discuss the importance of how leaders “show up” to work, why we all need safe environments to speak up and permission to pause, how AI is starting to change dialogue in organizations, and more.
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is Associate Fellow at Saïd Business School, Oxford University and Adjunct Professor of Leadership and Dialogue at Hult International Business School. She focuses on how we create the conditions for transformative dialogue at work and her research is at the intersection of leadership, change, dialogue and mindfulness. She is on the Thinkers50 ranking of global business thinkers and is ranked in HR Magazine’s Most Influential Thinkers listing.
A Quote From This Episode
"Many leaders and managers I work with are lovely...but they've got these titles and labels that mean that they're intimidating."
In the last of our special Mind Matters sessions, Megan Reitz, Amy Edmondson, Peter Sims and moderator Morra Aarons Mele discuss the implications of the leader’s optimism bubble, de-stigmatising failure, and building scaffolding to invite input: a culture of speaking up doesn’t create itself, it requires scaffolding. Find out more about productive vulnerability, the role of experiential knowing, and how to make space for the bigger conversations.
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How can you speak confidently and navigate difficult conversations in your organization? How does power dynamics affect communication? In this episode, Megan Reitz, the author of Speak Out, Listen Up, talks about how perceptions of power enable and silence others. She also breaks down the TRUTH Framework that affects whether we speak or listen. Delve into the subtle influences that prevent us from voicing our most innovative ideas. Join Megan Reitz in this valuable conversation today.
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Megan and John discussed the idea of ‘psychological safety’ and how better (not smoother) conversations can be delivered at work. They provided guidance on navigating power dynamics, empowering you to speak up confidently and ensure your voice is heard. They also discussed how to leverage your influence and encourage others to express themselves.
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Staff at Boeing are still reluctant to speak up about safety problems, even after a door panel on one of its jets recently blew out mid-flight and hundreds of lives were lost in two earlier planes crashes, according to an experts’ report commissioned by the US Federal Aviation Administration.
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What does it mean to lead in this new age of employee activism? Megan Reitz offers a four-point crash course on what employees want from their organizations and how leaders can rise to the challenge of …
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Megan Reitz discusses employee activism with Dorie Clark at the Thinkers50 gala 2021 when she was ranked as one of the Top 50 management thinkers in the world
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You can watch my TEDx talk on ‘How your power silences the truth here
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There was and is a strong risk of stumbling into 2021 in a similar way that I staggered into the ‘holidays’ at the end of 2020. A mild word to describe this would be ‘distracted’. But this word needs explanation before the mind concludes ‘oh yeah, distracted. Got it’ before skipping quickly onto to something else…
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In the third of her three-blog series, Professor Megan Reitz offers insight and advice on effective listening in the workplace. She draws from the findings of her research on …
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In the first of three blogs for Hult, Professor Megan Reitz summarizes the findings of her research on “Speaking Truth to Power,” featured by Harvard Business Review and the BBC, and …
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