Following a leader with profound strengths makes being their employee a wonderful experience.  When they can inspire, motivate, get results, be strategic, collaborate, walk their talk, be trustworthy, develop and support their team,

As training budgets get cut back, middle managers are put into positions without the training and support that is necessary to build effective teams.  They do the best they can based on the role models they have had.

As training budgets get cut back, middle managers are put into positions without the training and support that is necessary to build effective teams.  They do the best they can based on the role models they have had.

The first of five keys that Google uses to build effective teams is Psychological safety.  That means an environment of trust.  That must be the very first factor that a leader begins with when building a culture.  Where there is trust there is success!

The first of five keys that Google uses to build effective teams is Psychological safety.  That means an environment of trust.  That must be the very first factor that a leader begins with when building a culture.  Where there is trust there is success!

Wikipedia definition: A toxic leader is a person who has responsibility over a group of people or an organization, and who abuses the leader–follower relationship by leaving the group or organization in a worse-off condition than when s/he first found ...

Wikipedia definition: A toxic leader is a person who has responsibility over a group of people or an organization, and who abuses the leader–follower relationship by leaving the group or organization in a worse-off condition than when s/he first found ...

Humiliation,  sarcasm, distrust, meddling, and passive aggressive behaviour are all types of bullying.  This creates a toxic environment, and we know there is much more of that going on than ever should be in today’s society.  We know better.

Building trust in your team takes courage to admit mistakes and to speak from your heart.  Sometimes leaving your ego at the door is the greatest courage you can present to your people.

As Dr. Brene Brown asks….”What is keeping us out of the arena?  What’s the fear?  Where and why do we want to be braver?  What is our armor?  Perfectionism? Intellectualizing? Cynicism?  Numbing? Control?  It is not an easy walk into that arena,