What Quiet Quitting Can Teach Us About the Importance of Communication & Development

Hey, can you hear that? Probably not, because that's the sound of quiet quitting.

You've likely heard of the phenomenon of quiet quitting or what some are really just calling someone doing their job description. As quiet quitting gained in popularity it highlighted what some managers have been doing for years, quiet firing. Quiet firing is when an employer does the bare legal minimum to get rid of an employee. This can often involve reducing their hours or making them do undesirable tasks until they eventually quit.  And now, we've got quick quitting. Where people leave the organization within a year of joining without doing the obligatory stick it out for 2 years and don’t move too much.

Whether it's quietly doing just what your job demands of you. Or getting to a job and realizing it's not for you and  leaving before the year is out, things are shifting in the American workforce. Like so many other things these days, it’s not just organizations and leadership that get to do the quick and quiet firing. 

When things like this rise to the surface, we stop and take a look. What are the implications for leaders and leadership for people quietly quitting? How can we stem the tide of quick quitting, or is that even something we should do? And maybe quiet firing is one of the many tools used to make people quietly and quickly leave an organization. And as always, what is your role as a leader in this space? So in this episode, we talk quiet quitting, quick quitting, and some of the spaces in between.

Related Resources: 

Focused on Improving Employee Engagement & Retention? Pay Attention to These 4 Factors: https://www.ccl.org/articles/leading-effectively-articles/data-for-4-areas-of-employee-engagement/

How Ownership Mentality Supports Cultural Transformation: https://www.ccl.org/articles/leading-effectively-articles/ownership-mentality-cultural-transformation/ 

Yes, You Can Increase Accountable Leadership: https://www.ccl.org/articles/leading-effectively-articles/yes-you-can-increase-accountability/ 

10 Steps for Establishing Team Norms: https://www.ccl.org/articles/leading-effectively-articles/the-real-world-guide-to-team-norms/

Leadership Development Program: https://www.ccl.org/leadership-programs/leadership-development-program/ 

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