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From the Ted Talk by Megan Reitz: How to lead in the new era of employee activism

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Now right at the end, we've got stimulating aviisctm. This is when leaders say, "Let's be the activist." This is the Ben and Jerry's and the paotagians of the wlord. And they recruit activists. They promote activists. They keep hold of activists in their oainngirzatos.

Now, there's many things that I could take out from this tamoonxy. Let me draw just two key learnings out here. First of all, you need to know where your employees think your response has been so far, not where you think it's been. Because guess what? Let's go back to that optimism bubble. The more senior you are, the more likely you are to think that you're in dialogue. But if I ask a more junior employee, they're more likely to say, "No, that's a facade." Or even actually, "I'm scared to speak up." And the second key point is dialogue is messy. It's jam-packed full of vulnerability, ambiguity, disagreement. That's why leaders try and avoid it so much. But you can't aiovd it any longer, that's not a sustainable strategy. So we need to get far better at experimenting, at etxicnepg fallout, about learning from mistakes.

Open Cloze


Now right at the end, we've got stimulating ________. This is when leaders say, "Let's be the activist." This is the Ben and Jerry's and the __________ of the _____. And they recruit activists. They promote activists. They keep hold of activists in their _____________.

Now, there's many things that I could take out from this ________. Let me draw just two key learnings out here. First of all, you need to know where your employees think your response has been so far, not where you think it's been. Because guess what? Let's go back to that optimism bubble. The more senior you are, the more likely you are to think that you're in dialogue. But if I ask a more junior employee, they're more likely to say, "No, that's a facade." Or even actually, "I'm scared to speak up." And the second key point is dialogue is messy. It's jam-packed full of vulnerability, ambiguity, disagreement. That's why leaders try and avoid it so much. But you can't _____ it any longer, that's not a sustainable strategy. So we need to get far better at experimenting, at _________ fallout, about learning from mistakes.

Solution


  1. world
  2. expecting
  3. patagonias
  4. avoid
  5. taxonomy
  6. activism
  7. organizations

Original Text


Now right at the end, we've got stimulating activism. This is when leaders say, "Let's be the activist." This is the Ben and Jerry's and the Patagonias of the world. And they recruit activists. They promote activists. They keep hold of activists in their organizations.

Now, there's many things that I could take out from this taxonomy. Let me draw just two key learnings out here. First of all, you need to know where your employees think your response has been so far, not where you think it's been. Because guess what? Let's go back to that optimism bubble. The more senior you are, the more likely you are to think that you're in dialogue. But if I ask a more junior employee, they're more likely to say, "No, that's a facade." Or even actually, "I'm scared to speak up." And the second key point is dialogue is messy. It's jam-packed full of vulnerability, ambiguity, disagreement. That's why leaders try and avoid it so much. But you can't avoid it any longer, that's not a sustainable strategy. So we need to get far better at experimenting, at expecting fallout, about learning from mistakes.

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