Unlocking Team Candor, Creativity, and Innovation as a Leader

Unlocking Team Candor, Creativity, and Innovation as a Leader

45mIntermediate2025-06-20

Authors

Elaine Lin Hering

Elaine Lin Hering

Course details

In this course, learn how you can create conditions where the people you lead can share candid perspective, accurate data, and innovative ideas so that as a leader you can make sound decisions based on accurate rather than skewed information, increase interpersonal and team engagement to improve retention, and facilitate innovative thinking and action.

Learning objectives
Analyze barriers to open communication.
Align leadership intentions with team impact to foster trust and engagement.
Evaluate role misalignments and clarify decision-making authority to reduce team friction and enhance collaboration.
Design effective communication norms by addressing patterns that create unintended barriers for team members.
Develop actionable plans to incentivize speaking up and reinforce team collaboration using social capital.

Skills covered

CreativityManagement SkillsCommunicationGraphic DesignProfessional DevelopmentLeadership and ManagementOne-Off

Concepts

Introduction

  • Why people hesitate to speak up at work

Leadership and Team Dynamics

  • Check your assumptions
  • Understand your impact on your people
  • Use influence to break organizational silence

Clarify Roles and Responsibilities

  • Diagnose and resolve role misalignment
  • Clarify decision-making roles and authority
  • Avoid consensus bottlenecks

Design Effective Communication Flows

  • Examine communication defaults
  • Account for differences in wiring
  • Get to know your people
  • Ask questions that spark genuine insights

Disincentivize Silence

  • Speak, stay, or go
  • Reward speaking up
  • Use social capital to elevate communication

Conclusion

  • Unlearning silence
40,000 Toman