SALT will cure that

Salt is amazing. It cures so many things. But can it help employees do some healthy venting?

Bland food is cured by salt.
Meats are cured with salt.
Salt therapy is said to cure skin and breathing issues.

But the SALT I am interested in is the Self Appointed Leadership Team. Ever been a member? There is no joining fee and it can be positively restorative.

Whenever a few of us would get together at work, it wasn't unusual to find our conversations ambling towards identifying everything that wasn't working with the organisation, where the actual leaders were getting stuff wrong, and coming up with our own brilliant solutions – far superior to anything that was happening.

Other people call it whinging, but I think it’s pretty normal and, as long as it doesn’t get out of hand, healthy. Too much SALT isn't good for the heart.

Sharing concerns is a way we figure stuff out together. But how good would it be to capture those conversations and find the gold in them?

Perhaps a SALT cellar is ONE THING organisations could create [rather than a suggestions box] and use the contents to cure some ills.