From the course: Skip-Level Meetings
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The need for a skip-level meeting
- It's a very exciting time to be a leader. The practice of leadership has evolved quickly in the last few decades, producing many new types of beliefs and practices. For example, consider communication between managers and employees. It used to be that managers dictated and employees listened and followed orders. Thankfully, that's changing. Now we understand that there needs to be a genuine two-way dialog because we know that when teams feel they're part of a conversation, instead of simply receiving commands, they perform better and they enjoy performing more. Another old rule of thumb that's also being questioned concerns the need for integrity in the chain of command. What that used to mean is that a person should rarely if ever skip over their manager to speak to others higher in the hierarchy. This was considered an affront to the manager being skipped and was strongly frowned upon as disrespectful. Today, we see…
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