{"id":14746,"date":"2019-04-05T09:38:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T09:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icebreakerexecutive.com\/?p=14746"},"modified":"2019-04-05T09:38:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T09:38:37","slug":"who-likes-surprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/?p=14746","title":{"rendered":"Who likes surprises?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the case of the VW emissions scandal, Virgin Galactic explosion and Boeing 747 MAX issues &#8211; employees will have definitely known about the underlying issues? But it is &#8220;jobsworth&#8221; for employees to raise them? As an aerospace exec leading a aero design team, a few years ago I raised similar major risks in an aerospace environment which were dismissed by an aggressive HRD who said &#8220;put up or shut up&#8221;. WOW that&#8217;s from HR! Its vital employees feel able to raise risks. <\/p>\n<p>Its very difficult to raise quality issues in these tight contractual situations but cultures above all else must allow free communication which requires a suitable executive response rather than a commercial fudge?<\/p>\n<p>The underlying issue is executive approach-ability. www.winningthinking.uk addresses the underlying issue of approach-ability to keep organisations healthy.<\/p>\n<p>We are running a session with a post acquisition with construction team who even 12 months post acquisition are uncovering contractual no-one likes surprises, <\/p>\n<p>Particularly if they are raised at the time they can be resolved immediately and never cause a risk of any kind.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-47812225<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the case of the VW emissions scandal, Virgin Galactic  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}