Welcome to a special five-part podcast series on enhancing your corporate culture through a great speak-up regime. This podcast series is sponsored by Case IQ. Over this series, Tom Fox will visit with Sharlyn Lauby, Jakub Ficner, Kenneth McCarthy, and Meric Bloch on the different facets of a great speak-up regime and how each of those facets will improve your corporate culture. They will tackle such topics as the indicia of a great corporate culture, the importance of triage and internal investigations in improving corporate culture, non-retaliation and protections for those who speak up, tying your entire system of speaking up to improving culture, and conclude with some thoughts on how an entire system of speaking up drives corporate culture to be better run and, at the end of the day, more profitably. In Part 1, Tom Fox visits Sharlyn Lauby to consider what a speak-up culture is.

Sharlyn Lauby is a seasoned human resources professional with over 15 years of experience in various industries, including theme parks, hotels, and airlines. She strongly advocates for fostering a speak-up culture in the workplace, a perspective shaped by her extensive experience in organizational development and her role as the former vice president of human resources for a global consulting firm. Sharlyn believes that a speak-up culture is characterized by open and effective communication, where employees feel comfortable expressing their concerns and sharing their ideas. She emphasizes the importance of listening as a key leadership trait, the need for policies to protect employees from retaliation, and the crucial role of middle managers in creating a supportive environment. Join Tom Fox and Sharlyn Lauby as they delve deeper into this topic in this episode.

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Sharlyn Lauby on LinkedIn

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