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November 4, 2019
We have surveyed thousands of leaders and one of the top challenges revealed is:
How to stop skepticism in the workplace.
NextMapping survey
The dizzying pace of change in technology and business makes it difficult to keep workers engaged in creating the future.
Workers are challenged with ongoing change and do not trust their leaders or the direction of the business. Attitudes such as cynicism, sarcasm and ‘here we go again’ by workers can slow down the best change leadership efforts towards driving change.
The top reasons why workers are skeptical are:
The solutions to skepticism in the workplace lie in leadership, change leadership and creating an engaged workplace culture.
There is a psychological component at play in workplace cultures. People will respond to being included, being asked for input and being valued.
Cynism and skepticism are products of people feeling like nobody cares.
Here are the keys on how to stop skepticism in the workplace:
The question to ask yourself is this: “Do our workers have every right to be skeptical given our history in how we have handled change?”
If you can acknowledge that you understand the ‘why’ there is skepticism you can then make the change towards stopping it in its tracks. In many ways, the value of having skeptics is that it can cause us to look at change in a far more analytical way. Skeptics also provide a perspective that helps leaders gain clarity and reinforce the merits of the change.