3.3 Speaking Up in Meetings (LO3.1, LO3.2, LO3.5)

Barbara J. Krumsiek of the Calvert Group recently talked about the style of meetings that take place in her organization:

I think it can be a little jarring actually for people who are used to perhaps a little more civility. I think we’re civil, but we’re direct. I don’t like meetings if my direct reports leave the room and turn to somebody and say, “Can you believe someone said that?” And so I try to explain to them by example that if you find yourself doing that when you leave?