Quote Originally Posted by msudawglb View Post
Well, seeing as how I work for a government agency, and I have to sit through mandatory training yearly that encourages us to speak out with our thoughts toward decision making, I'll shoot down the quoted post above.
That means next to nothing. Employees are going to speak up or not based on the consequences of speaking out when it's not what their higherups want to hear.

Not saying the agency you work for doesn't actually want people to speak out. But having mandatory training on it is just as likely to be indicative of having a culture that doesn't reward speaking out (but having somebody that at least in theory wants that to cahnge, if not in practice) as it is to be indicative of a culture that actually reward, or at least not punish for, speaking out.