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How to Lead in the New Era of Employee Activism | Megan Reitz | TED

What does it mean to lead in this new age of employee activism? Megan Reitz offers a four-point crash course on what employees want from their organizations and how leaders can rise to the challenge of building proactive and productive workplaces where every voice and perspective has the chance to make a difference. If you…

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What does it mean to lead in this new age of employee activism? Megan Reitz offers a four-point crash course on what employees want from their organizations and how leaders can rise to the challenge of building proactive and productive workplaces where every voice and perspective has the chance to make a difference.

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41 Comments

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    September 29, 2022 at 1:00 pm

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      September 30, 2022 at 1:45 am

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  6. LEV!ATHAN

    September 29, 2022 at 1:20 pm

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    • LEV!ATHAN

      September 29, 2022 at 1:41 pm

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      September 29, 2022 at 2:01 pm

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  9. Aspartame69

    September 29, 2022 at 1:29 pm

    Activist employees? Simple. Sack them. Tell them to create a service, business or industry to compete on the grounds they wish.

    • Your Mom

      September 29, 2022 at 1:59 pm

      You would be one of those whiney employers that complains about how no one wants to work anymore, when in reality it’s just that no one wants to work for you anymore. Try paying your employees fairly and addressing their concerns instead, tough guy. You’re a perfect example of an employer that sees employees as property, as slaves.

  10. Hope Idowu

    September 29, 2022 at 1:38 pm

    I want to share this with my coworkers and leadership at my company. Someone really needs to hear this. This topic is so relevant to what is going on in my workplace right now. Our leadership sucks! If you speak up they will not listen. They come up with fake solutions. So many are quitting or getting fired right now. And it’s leadership’s fault

  11. Carpe Imodiem

    September 29, 2022 at 1:44 pm

    *Unionize. Everything else is corporate misdirection.*

    The largest transfer of wealth in human history has taken place in the last 4+ decades, costing American workers (on average) $1,000 a month.

    Give the people who’ve been in the workforce since 1990 their $400,000+ back with compounded interest, and a few things will happen. (1) No more absolutely unnecessary multi-billionaires. (2) The worst communities in the US explode with prosperity. (3) The sensitivity plague will end. “Offensive language” falls onto deaf ears of the truly empowered. (4) Upward mobility becomes an instant reality for multiple generations who have been priced out of the real estate markets by the 1%, and were previously dead-end renters burning their capital to survive. (5) The continued downward spiral of decay is halted and reversed for the entire nation. For this is the only solution to what is currently a total inevitability.

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    September 29, 2022 at 1:46 pm

    Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.

  13. kinpatu

    September 29, 2022 at 1:50 pm

    There is no leadership in this arena. Everyone is just cowardly following wherever the crowd is going. It’s the definitive opposite of leadership.

  14. Self Retired

    September 29, 2022 at 1:52 pm

    This helps me decide what I need to speak on. My answer from Life. ♡ Thank you. 🙏

  15. chimpera1

    September 29, 2022 at 2:02 pm

    Fire them all.

  16. M

    September 29, 2022 at 2:02 pm

    How to succeed? DONT ALLOW IT. EVER!

  17. M

    September 29, 2022 at 2:08 pm

    Said merchant of tractor/implement business :”Gee, I hope farmers will buy our products because we are very involved in activism?!?”
    Response : no.
    They’re NOT going to buy your products BECAUSE of your stupid f–kin activism!

  18. nixebastian

    September 29, 2022 at 3:19 pm

    This woman sounds like an overqualified consultant who has never actually run a business, but goes around giving advice to businesses.

  19. OD

    September 29, 2022 at 4:20 pm

    “Inclusion” actually now means “no longer being able to have reasonable debate about stuff that matters, because that makes some people uncomfortable.” Whoever invites this into their organization and encourages it is playing with fire that will destroy them from the inside. It’s like actively doing gain-of-function research with mind viruses. Postmodernism destroys everything it touches. Any executive that encourages this doesn’t understand that they’re just a tool and they’re going to be disposed of just as soon as the strangler vine has sufficiently taken over its host. It’s all about power.

    • Luci Feric

      September 29, 2022 at 4:41 pm

      1955 is calling professor..

  20. Jacob Scanlon

    September 29, 2022 at 5:37 pm

    Employees will work hard and strive for betterment if they are actually rewarded for doing so, also don’t be loyal to one company, leave if it’s a toxic environment or it’s getting you down, find a different company.

  21. TITAN

    September 29, 2022 at 5:40 pm

    I don’t want this nonsense. Tell me how be a billionaire 😡

  22. Kevin VanGelder

    September 29, 2022 at 8:00 pm

    Listen to her advice at your own peril. Go woke, go broke.

  23. Michelle

    September 29, 2022 at 8:04 pm

    Bring back pensions.

  24. Jordan Reed

    September 29, 2022 at 10:23 pm

    We don’t need employees to become activist; what we do need is for employees and employers both to shut up and do their jobs❗️

  25. dragonlover3

    September 29, 2022 at 11:06 pm

    Awesome great job video

  26. Scott K

    October 1, 2022 at 8:45 am

    Ted needed another Talk about Wokeness. From Employee to Imp.

  27. horizontal120

    October 3, 2022 at 4:51 am

    is it activism if you speak out agent gay-s .. or for climate change … aka Chick-fil-A is that a activist company …

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