Mini Chief: Fostering a speak-up culture and trust at work, with Stephen Shedletzky

The Inner Chief

“I define speak-up culture as an environment in which members of a team feel that it is both psychologically safe and worth it to raise ideas, as long as it’s to make things better.”

This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode.

This Mini Chief episode features Stephen Shedletzky, author of Speak-Up Culture: When Leaders Truly Listen, People Step Up.

His full episode is titled How to foster a speak-up culture where people feel safe, trusted and worthy.

You can find the full audio and show notes here:

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“Shed”, as he is known to everyone, is a leadership author and coach who helps leaders and organisations create a culture where people feel encouraged, safe and valued in speaking-up.

He became the fourth person to join well-known leadership expert Simon Sinek’s team and has had the roles of Chief of Staff and Head of Brand Experience, Training & Development. The two still collaborate together.

He is also a TEDx Speaker Coach.

In the full episode we talk about:

✅ How he overcame a stutter and fear of public speaking to become a guru in speak-up culture.

✅ His framework and principles for helping you build a speak-up culture at work, and

✅ The most important things to consider in delivering a TEDx level presentation.

Deal hope,

Greg

Thanks to former guest, James Whittaker, for introducing me to Shed.

Connecting with Stephen Shedletzky

You can connect with Stephen via LinkedIn and the Shed Inspires website. You can also see his Speak-Up Matrix on his website (see more details below in the show notes).

Books and resources

• Man's Search for Meaning - by Viktor Frankl

• The Attributes - by Rich DeVinney

• Culture Map - by Erin Meyer

• Outliers - by Malcolm Gladwell

• Don’t sleep, there are snakes - by Daniel L. Everett

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• Minisodes by Greg Layton - Meetings as a Performance Theatre and BREAC a leg!

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