3 Hidden Benefits Of Exercising Candor In Your Organization!
“Getting candor right with your reports, peers, and your boss is a skill that can make or break your career” — Jack Welch
Candor is the quality of being open and frank. This is one of the most underrated quality in our factory-like mindset. Most of us are brainwashed to report to work, understand the system, be a part of the system, and never criticize. There is a lack of openness towards challenging the status quo, this is one reason big corporates struggle to make the next big step.
Exercising Candor is about disturbing the status quo and creating a culture that allows people to walk into an office filled with exciting challenges and about having fun.
Jack Welch, whom I admire immensely, was an avid advocate of this concept. He exercised Candor during his reign at GE, and Candor massively rewarded him with a legacy that inspires so many executives.
Exercising Candor allows an organization to unlock many benefits:
- Generate new ideas
This is a crucial component of a business that aims to be on a growth trajectory. Creating a culture of openness helps employees in different levels of their designation matrix to come up with valuable ideas. These ideas if proved to be groundbreaking can be iterated and executed to achieve the ambitious goals set. Candor helps to create an environment where everyone feels they are heard. This is very important!
2. Generate speed
Creating a transparent culture allows the production workers and non-management employees to know the direction the organization is heading towards. This can help the management execute the strategy and generate speed with the execution.
3. Saves Cost
By exercising candor within the organization, you can eliminate unnecessary costs of holding longer meetings, creating presentations, etc. You need to schedule that many meetings if there is an alignment problem between your management & production. Being open and applying candor helps you to gain alignment, and that saves you time and money.
To summarize, people love to work in an organization where they are valued irrespective of their designations. That is why it is very important to create an open culture. Implementing candor costs you nothing, but can play a pivotal role in helping you to achieve the wildly ambitious goals.
