How not to address mental health at work & Naive leadership communication

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When employees seem unaligned, mainstream management advice calls for over-communication. However, most often disalignment is an optical illusion. Mark points to a better place to start looking for solutions. Story #2 of this episode addresses mental health at work and makes a case for less intervention and explains why encroaching on employee's privacy can have detrimental consequences.

0:00 - Intro
1:16 - Story #1: Article claims leaders should over-communicate to the extreme
3:00 - Conclusions drawn from anecdotal evidence and why they are insufficient
7:37 - Challenging the assumptions of the article: What could be the true reason for a sense of disalignment and a need for over-communication?
10:22 - The hidden benefit of employees playing dumb
11:26 - How managers could benefit from this alternative view
14:05 - Story #2: Mental health in the workplace: The coming revolution
18:42 - The authors suggestions on how to tackle mental health issues
20:38 - Six ways that allegedly help tackling mental health related issues
23:55 - Two main reasons why the article's proposition is fundamentally wrong: 1) It doesn't ask for the cause
28:12 - 2) Encroaching on people's privacy | Disrespecting individual dignity
32:24 - Potential hidden agenda by McKinsey? Industrialising mental health
33:34 - Wrapping up the episode

Article by Adam Bryant and Kevin Sharer from story #1: https://www.fastcompany.com/90607036/leaders-this-is-why-overcommunication-only-strengthens-your-cause

Article by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Leanne Williams from story #2: https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/healthcare-systems-and-services/our-insights/mental-health-in-the-workplace-the-coming-revolution

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About MarkUp News: Challenging Mainstream Management Advice

As a leader, how do you know if the mainstream management advice you consume is reliable? And if everyone follows the same opinion, how do you avoid mediocracy? In this show Mark Poppenborg dissects mainstream publications on management, organisational change and work as a whole. Train your critical thinking, get practical inspiration and benefit from an unconventional and highly successful perspective on leadership and organisational design. Mark is the founder and creative force behind intrinsify, a group of companies that leads businesses towards modern leadership, post-bureaucratic organisational design and purposeful work by advising and educating decision makers in key roles.

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