How much does being liked matter in business, and what does it cost when it matters too much?
Likeability is one of the most powerful and least examined forces in organisational life. It decides who gets hired, promoted and listened to. It also drives affinity bias, soft feedback and leaders who dodge the hard conversation. Senior HR leaders sit on both sides of that tension. This session looks at likeability from two angles: how to be more likeable yourself without becoming less authentic, and where likeability is quietly making decisions for your organisation that it shouldn’t be.
You’ll leave with:
The evidence on what likeability buys a leader, and why the brilliant but unlikeable boss is rarer than the story suggests (1 in 2,000, in a study of nearly 52,000 leaders)
A simple framework, the four silent questions, that turns likeability from a personality trait into four behaviours anyone can work on
The Likeability Audit: a personal self-check and an organisational diagnostic covering hiring, promotion, performance, airtime and feedback, to take straight back to your team
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