The Candor Imperative

There’s more to creating candor than meets the eye. While candor holds great promise as a source of competitive advantage, it’s a rarity in organizational life. Most people think of candor as telling the truth. But in meaning and in practice, candor is closer to authenticity than it is to truth. Candid conversations can transcend individual points of view and yield fresh insights about an organizational obstacle or opportunity. In this way, candor is a source of actionable organizational wisdom that, in small ways and large, yield competitive advantages.

You can discover the benefits of candor and how to grow it within your organization by reading the full version of this white paper on our web site. The goal of this article is to help managers and human resource professionals create environments that embrace rigorous candor.

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"The great leaders are like the best conductors—they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players."
- Blaine Lee

The Top Three: Benefits of Real Play vs. Role Play

1) Skill Transfer
Powerful learning occurs because the participants are using actual situations drawn from their work world. Practicing skill sets that directly relate to them helps participants learn on a deeper level. Transfer rates are higher and skills are integrated to the workplace more successfully.

2) Confidence
When participants practice their new skills using real-play scenarios, they feel more prepared to face the situations back at work. Knowing how to execute the conversations and what the possible outcomes may be helps them use their skills with certainty.

3) Problem Solving
The participants are addressing and learning to solve actual challenges through the course of practicing the real-play situations. They receive immediate feedback and get an opportunity to use and adapt the skills necessary to resolve the situations.

Coaching for Results

Managers know their success depends on an ability to develop their teams, yet developmental opportunities are overlooked. Managers can step in and perform a task, but remain unsure of how to coach others to succeed. In this course managers learn to:

• listen to prevent misunderstanding and clarify their employee’s point of view
  
  
• target their guidance to empower employees
  
  
• focus feedback to achieve noticeable, significant results

For more information on this and other courses go to the courses section of our web site.