Bad things happen in organizations after individuals who try to raise concerns have bad things done to them to keep them quiet.

#OrganizationalCommunication #EmployeeVoice #UpwardFeedback #AbusiveSupervision

One-on-one conversations can be sites where the more powerful party coerces the less powerful, sometimes through abusive behavior.

How does your organization protect its members against this dynamic?

#OrganizationalCommunication #organizing #coalition #facilitation

No surprise that “leaders” are falling over in the face of anti-democratic headwinds.

As it has developed in recent decades, leadership isn’t about leading. It’s about coercing subordinates to comply with hierarchy.

#leadership #OrganizationalCommunication #organizations #HigherEd

Org leaders put your important messages in writing not videos challenge (impossible).

#OrganizationalCommunication

If entryism didn’t work, organizations wouldn’t have such wide-ranging and effective immune responses to suppress internal dissent (a thread).

#organizing #OrganizationalCommunication #change #TheoryOfChange #facilitation

“Why do you want to be in an echo chamber?” grossly underestimates the amount of disagreement within a coalition.

It is also important not to misperceive an echo chamber where power incumbents within a group are attempting to control the narrative through an appearance of consensus, e.g. “We’re all on the same team (so long as you agree with our position)” etc.

#organizing #dialogue #pluralism #OrganizationalCommunication

"Critical feedback is welcome here,” they laugh breezily, skipping ahead while their comrade faceplants on a missing stair.

A vicious circle: Difficult discussions cannot be engaged productively without trust. Failure to engage difficult discussions prevents trust from being built.

An organization doesn’t necessarily owe _the public_ an airing of its internal accountability, but it does owe an accessible and transparent process to its members, especially those holding positions of lowest power in the org.

#organizing #OrganizationalCommunication #facilitation

An introduction for my new instance:

My main interests are written communication, teaching writing, and education, particularly as they relate to productive disagreement explored in various contexts: rhetoric, organizational & workplace communication, organizational learning, training, research, emergent strategy, coalition work, and facilitation.

This post goes into a little more detail: https://fromtherostra.com/2023/03/10/when-disagreement-is-inclusive/

Some relevant hashtags:

#CriticalEd #CriticalEdTech #CriticalManagementStudies #CriticalPedagogy #EdTech #education #EmergentStrategy #HigherEd #Humanism #interbelief #interfaith #intersectionality #introduction #labor #LaborUnions #nonreligion #notetaking #OrganizationalCommunication #PaperNotebooks #rhetoric #SciFi #secular #stationery #TeachingWriting #WorkplaceCommunication #writing #WritingTools