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How Your Attachment Style Can Impact Your Ability to Create Psychological Safety
Psychological safety is the cornerstone of thriving teams and workplaces. In fact, research shows that when psychological safety exists, individuals feel valued, collaboration deepens, and innovation increases. That makes it an important aspect of your team or...
How to Lead Confidently from Any Stance in Kantor’s 4 Player Model
Changing expectations of leadership effectiveness open up opportunities for you to lead confidently when you use your natural attributes, skills, and strengths to engage others on behalf of the team. Kantor’s 4-Player Model can help. When you lead from any stance in Kantor’s 4-Player Model, you demonstrate that there is a variety of possible ways to lead confidently, regardless of your natural communication tendencies.
Discover How to Enhance Team Communication with Kantor’s 4 Player Model
In today’s complex and fast-paced work environments, effective communication with teams is paramount for success. When your team understands the communication dynamics occurring during team meetings and even in ad hoc conversations, psychological safety can...
The Secret to Building Psychological Safety Starts with You
You’ll rarely have the perfect mix of people on your team. But keep in mind that the very best teams focus on their interactions with each other and with stakeholders. So, keep recruiting the best people possible for your team, and use this secret for building a...
How Well Do You Handle Power? Leadership of Entitlement Vs. Responsibility
What’s more important to you — the status you get from being in a leadership position or the responsibility to serve others? The quality of your leadership is shaped by whether you emphasize the status and privilege that you get from being in a leadership position...
Empathy and Emotional Intelligence: The Influence of the Feminine in the Workplace
In today’s business world, your ability to access your empathy and emotional intelligence is a must. Increasingly, the modern workplace has changed, morphing from a bastion of masculine qualities and values to giving greater value to these and other feminine...
Using Non-Violent Communication: 5 Clues You’re Not Taking Responsibility in Interactions
(Updated from a May 2017 post “5 Signs You Shirk Responsibility When Communicating”) Communicating effectively is probably the most common area where managers, team leaders, and executives can grow. In fact, surveys indicate the following: Teams who communicate...
As a Supervisor, Are You Leading or Bullying?
(This is an updated version of a post I did in October 2012.) “I feel like you’re intimidating and bullying me.” These are the words of a female employee during a meeting with her male supervisor, who intended to set expectations with her. Taken aback, the supervisor...
Why You Need to Do More Systems Thinking with Your Team
For over 400 years, western civilization has increased its use of analytical thinking and the scientific method to explain almost everything in the natural world. By using analysis (separating a whole into its component parts), our society has greatly expanded the...
How Double-Loop Learning Will Increase Your Team’s Agility and Effectiveness
The Learning Cycle is a simple framework used by teams to improve products and processes. It’s a cycle that includes Planning, Doing, Reviewing, and Learning from the results of projects and tasks. This basic learning cycle is useful for reviewing events and spotting...