When it comes to gathering input and hearing the voices of their team members, executives sometimes overlook junior employees, perhaps assuming that new staff members don’t yet understand the corporate culture well enough to offer valid suggestions for change. This can make getting your voice heard as a junior employee quite a challenge.
As a junior staff member, you have to find effective ways of overcoming this kind of implicit bias if you want your leaders to take your proposals seriously. Click to read the 11 ways new and lower-level employees can make sure their voices are heard and influence significant change within their organizations.
Lori Harris is a member of the Forbes Coaching Council, and Managing Partner of Harris Whitesell Consulting.
