Assignment Task: There are many individual and contextual barriers to speaking up, such as:
- fear of being excluded from the team
- perceived position within the team ('I'm new here' or 'I'm just a new graduate')
- fear of getting ridiculed and looking incompetent
- concern about being viewed as a troublemaker
- not having the skills to 'speak up' effectively
- perceived impact of speaking up ('it won't change anything anyway'
1. Choose three of the individual and contextual barriers to speaking up from the list above.
2. Why does the behavior occur?
3. How to overcome that
4. What strategy would be the best response to the barrier?