Corporate silence can defined as a shared sense among employees that it is wise to remain silent about certain issues or decisions and it is far more widespread than we might usually assume. In this post I share 26 strategies to help break the silence.

A culture of silence is extremely damaging to organizations and the well-being of employees. What causes employees to remain silent? Managers and team leads often play an important role in emerging silence, directly and indirectly.

If employees stop voicing concerns and ideas and conversations grind to a halt, calamity may well be lurking in the dark. A culture of silence gives rise to all kinds of problems. Fortunately, organizations can protect themselves to a considerable extent from this kind of evil.

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg called it “One of the most important documents that Silicon Valley has ever produced”: the Netflix Culture Deck.

Whether we feel happy and valued at work, is strongly related to three simple questions. Our collective feelings about these questions amount to what is known as an organization’s communication climate. In this blog post I explore what we can do to foster a healthy communication climate.