LIVE Webinar
The Catastrophic Consequences of a Nice Culture
Join Dr. Timothy R. Clark to learn the consequences of a nice culture.
Friday April 30th, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM MST
AGENDA:
1) What is a dangerously nice culture?
2) What industries tend to be nice or not so nice?
3) Why do organizations pursue niceness?
4) How can a nice culture become catastrophic?
5) How do you fix a dangerously nice culture?
CONTEXT:
Being nice is a good thing until it’s not. Sometimes, in an effort to create a culture of collegiality, we go too far. When our niceness turns into false harmony, we create barriers to honest, hard-hitting dialogue. We smile and nod and act agreeable when we disagree. The meeting isn’t the meeting so we commiserate in side-bar discussions and hold kangaroo courts.
What a colossal waste of time! More than that, we’re putting ourselves and our organizations at risk because we can’t debate issues on their merits and make wise and timely decisions. In the worst cases, leaders spread a thin layer of nice over a thick layer of fear.
It’s a respectable patina that attempts to hide the fact that we are pretending, engaged in a charade, and unwilling to tackle the tough issues. We lose our ability to self-diagnose and self-correct. Ultimately, the pattern can have catastrophic consequences. Remember, the problems we don’t solve offensively, we must eventually solve defensively.
FRAMEWORK:
SPEAKER:
Dr. Timothy R. Clark is founder and CEO of LeaderFactor, a global consulting, coaching, and training organization. Dr. Clark is an international authority in the fields of psychological safety & innovation, large-scale change & transformation, and senior leadership development. He is the author of five books: The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety: Defining the Path to Inclusion and Innovation, Epic Change: How to Lead Change in the Global Age (John Wiley/Jossey-Bass), Leadership Bones (Bradmore Road Press), The Employee Engagement Mindset (McGraw-Hill), Leading with Character and Competence: Moving Beyond Title, Position, And Authority (Berrett-Koehler). He is also the developer of the EQometer emotional intelligence assessment.
Dr. Clark is a highly sought-after advisor, coach, and facilitator to CEOs and senior leadership teams. He has personally coached over 100 CEOs and executives and trained many senior teams around the world. Dr. Clark earned a PhD in social science from Oxford University, and was both a British Research Scholar and a Fulbright Scholar at Seoul National University in Korea. He also earned a master’s degree in government and economics from the University of Utah. As an undergraduate at Brigham Young University, he was named a first-team Academic All-American football player where he completed a triple degree cum laude.
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