Creating a Safe Place for Dangerous Truth
- How to Break the "Rules" and Win ---If the truth will set us free...Where is it? Who has it? and how will we know it when we see it? If you feel like it's been too long since your workgroup felt safe enough to tell the truth, it's time to brush up on your dialogue skills.
Dialogue is how we as adults learn. Forget the "fountain-head/empty-head" model. Real learning is a social process. As fast as our world is changing, we must constantly link our brains with others and trade what we know for what they know -- in real time. Today, what you know depends not only on who you know, but how recently you spoke to them, and how much they chose to tell you.
Too often, speaking the "truth" is perceived career suicide. Yet truth-telling is desperately needed if we are to move past current levels of frustration and disillusionment. Dialogue is a way for a work group to get "un-stuck" when frustration and apathy threatens forward progress. Annette Simmons will explore some of the dangerous truths currently sabotaging the wordplace, the risks and rewards of truth telling, and the art and practice of creating a place safe enough so that "truths" do not deteriorate into blame sessions, scape-goating, or hopelessness. Genuine dialogue is a way to turn dangerous truths into shared responsibility.
“Annette Simmons has excellent instincts. She understands group process and is willing to go into the jaws of the lion. ”
Thomas DeLong
Managing Director, Morgan Stanley & Co.
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