Permission To Speak - Leadership & Management Podcast

Permission to Speak Podcast. Hosted by Leadership Communications Expert Kelly Vandever. Episode #23 - Dr. Denise Cumberland. Permission to Speak is the video blog and podcast that loiters at the intersections of leaders who want their people to speak up, technology that facilitates connections, and results that serve an organization’s higher purpose. Topics covered in this episode include: - Denise discusses her leadership research based on the show Undercover Boss. - Denise interviewed 13 of the CEOs that had been on the television series - How could the scandals like GM’s ignition scandal and VA scandal, how could they happen and these leaders not know - All but one CEO said they really wanted to know what employees really thought, they had a desire to learn about their own organization - The main thing all the CEOs learned was how hard and demanding their employees’ jobs are - They learned what it was like to have to do something when you’d never been taught - The CEOs learned what it felt like to be yell