Speak Truth to Power – Hot Topic

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eCourse – Speak YOUR Truth to Power Effectively!.

Speak Your Truth to Power and communicate powerfully with the boss, your employees, business partners and clients. Tell them what they don’t want to hear, and gain their respect anyway.

  • Tell them to get out of the way and let you do your job.
  • Take your best shot at stopping that train wreck you see coming.
  • Land that big contract without caving to their terms.
  • Smash that glass ceiling by being your authentic self.
  • Tackle that ethical breach threatening your project.
  • Ask for that promotion, raise or plumb assignment.

    • Speaking your truth to the powers-that-be is a critical leadership skill. When you do it well, you live in greater integrity and research shows it can help your company achieve results too. Speaking your truth allows you to offer your unique wisdom so adeptly that they can’t dismiss you and so you won’t put them on the defensive. Speaking your truth – effectively – is also a subtle art that you will use in your personal life to ease communications with family and friends.

    To learn the subtle art of truthtelling to get ahead in integrity in our careers we need to unlearn many of the myths our culture teaches us about truth when we’re young. This isn’t rocket science, but it does require some reflection. It’s also a good idea to practice this skill before you have the big meeting with the big boss or the anchor client.

    The Speak Your Truth to Power eCourse is a self-study course with videos, reading and exercises - all available online 24/7 – to help you integrate this personal power skill into you life. It includes a private online community moderated by me where you can ask/answer questions and discuss your journey with others. 

    Group discounts available (contact Dana dtheus@magusconsulting.com). Learn more.

    Free Download – Survey Results – Unscientific but fascinating study of 155 professionals

    Almost half of respondents from a recent survey (48%) say they withhold their truth more than 25% of the time. Why? Because 82% say they’ve been penalized in the past for speaking up. People feel that their integrity is at stake when something important is on the line and most (76%) feel regret when they decide to bite their tongues. But 72% said that speaking truth to power actually got them ahead! Read the full results by downloading the summary report (free) to learn about implications for running better companies and exploring disturbing gender differences.

    Found a fascinating study by Corporate Executive Board that supported this data and demonstrated (more scientifically) that open communications cultures help create better business results – 5.8% better to be exact. Read the CEB study.

     

    Featured Blog Posts

    Is Your Ego In The Way of Your Success? (Your People Might Think So) – My article on Smartblog on Leadership

    My Personal Truth Telling Story on the Lead Change Blog

    Business Leaders – What Aren’t Your Employees Telling You? (Plenty!)

    Men Are Rewarded More Often Than Women For Speaking Their Truth to Power? Really? (also featured on BlogHer)

    Speaking Truth to Power – Hi-Risk/Hi-Reward (Survey Results)

    Video: What Does It Mean To Speak Your Truth to Power?

    Read all related blog posts.




    More Research!

    The Corporate Executive Board has studied this subject too, and found that companies that encourage their people to speak up perform better financially than those who don’t. Read the full study here.

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