by Beth Strathman | Feb 10, 2026 | communication, culture, psychological safety, psychological safety, team coach, team development, team systems & processes
Most teams today communicate. A lot. In fact, they’re swimming in words. Meetings stack up on calendars. Slack messages multiply. Emails pile up faster than anyone can read them. And yet leaders still find themselves saying things like: “We just talked about this last...
by Beth Strathman | Dec 9, 2025 | emotional intelligence, culture, humility, leadership, leadership as self-development, leadership skills, psychological safety, psychological safety, systemic team coaching, team, team development, team leader, vulnerability
Ask any leader what their team needs to succeed and you’ll hear familiar themes: clarity, accountability, communication, alignment. All true. But underneath every one of those team capabilities sits a deeper, more human foundation: the emotional intelligence (EQ) of...
by Beth Strathman | Jan 8, 2025 | leadership, communication, psychological safety, team, team environment, team leader
Traditionally, organizations saw leadership ability as top-down, assertive and directive because it was based on a masculine military model. However, more often today, the notion of effective leadership qualities has expanded to include a mix of both “masculine” and...
by Beth Strathman | Aug 26, 2024 | adaptive leadership, awareness, behavior, corporate culture, leadership, leadership skills, psychological safety, women in leadership
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...
by Beth Strathman | Feb 22, 2021 | dialogue, adaptive leadership, assumptions, awareness, behavior, change, collaboration, communication, influence, internal processes, leadership, learning, listening, psychological safety, psychological safety, self-awareness, team
Do you congratulate yourself on the fact that your team never argues or even disagrees with each other? Hold on. That might not be a good thing because some conflict can be beneficial, especially during team conversations. Results from a study of 55 executives teams...
by Beth Strathman | Oct 27, 2020 | adaptive leadership, alignment, appreciation, behavior, collaboration, ego, executive, external processes, failure, fallibility, focus and priorities, goal execution, humility, internal processes, leadership, leadership skills, learning, mindset, performance, professional development plan, psychological safety, psychological safety, purpose, purpose & mission, self-awareness, success, team, team environment, team leader, vulnerability
In the U.S., most people are taught from an early age to be individually competent and independent. It’s no wonder that most of your employees have some difficulty in knowing how to work effectively within a team. Here are five things you can do to forge a collective...
