I help growth-oriented leaders create high performing teams. Offering this free leadership workshop helps me reach my goals by helping you reach yours.
I offer this free leadership workshop because my mission is to help people like you become better leaders. If you are looking to grow your skills and improve team results, this workshop is for you.
From my own experience, I have seen that there are no bad teams, only bad leaders. Although everyone wants to be a good leader, not everyone has the skills they need to lead effectively.
In fact, research shows that people leave bad bosses all the time. Currently in 2025, Gallup has found that 51% of employees are actively looking to leave their organization. The most important reason they want to leave? A lack of engagement or poor workplace culture, which points to a failure of leadership widely in an organization.
What Prevents Us from Being Better Leaders?
Here are the most common factors getting in the way of good leadership:
- No leadership training. Without leadership training, people often have misguided ideas about what leadership is. They may think being a boss means bossing people around. Unless they get training, they are likely to fall back on outdated and ineffective leadership behaviors.
- Bad role models: If someone experienced a bad boss, they may fall into the same traps their old bosses had. If someone bossed them around, told them what to do, blamed them for things out of their control, and generally experienced a culture of fear or domination, they may internalize fear and domination as leadership characteristics.
- Desire to be liked or avoid conflict. When leaders are primarily driven by a desire to be liked or to avoid conflict, they often allow performance to slip. Afraid of offering negative feedback, they avoid feedback at all. As a result, they may end up doing their team’s work for them. Or they may just allow people to remain in their comfort zone, not doing well but not getting the training or support they need to do better. You don’t have to have conflict to be an effective leader, but you sometimes have to be willing to have difficult conversations and be honest about performance issues.
- Lack of trust. Trust is essential for high performance. When you don’t trust your team to do their job or to grow new skills, you set up a cycle of mistrust, which in itself will distract from work productivity. If you sometimes think your employee doesn’t know what they are doing or can’t do a good job, your assumption will lead you to act in ways that are disrespectful. Instead, try to see that it’s your job to train them to do their job well and acquire the skills they need. You will do best if you work to establish psychological safety and a learning culture on your team. Take a moment and reflect on whether that’s your ego talking. Good leaders keep their ego in check and prioritize the organization and results.
If any of these issues resonate with you or feel familiar, this workshop is for you!
We Know What Good Leadership Looks Like
After over half a century of research on what helps teams perform their best, we know that command-and-control leadership doesn’t work. Furthermore, we know that leadership based in fear and intimidation don’t work. In fact, leadership based in authority and fear will actually lower team results.
What works to improve team performance is a style of leadership that puts the needs of the organization and the team over their own needs. This is sometimes called inspirational leadership or servant leadership. Good leaders motivate their team by building trust and self-esteem, by respecting their team members and earning respect in return, and by communicating openly and negotiating alignemt.
One-on-Ones are the Ideal Setting for Good Leadership
Andy Grove, the legendary CEO of Intel in the 70s and 80s, saw that weekly one-on-one meetings with a direct report provided the best conditions for great leadership and encouraging high performance. His methods quickly spread thoughout Silicon Valley and the tech industry. As a result of his influence, one-on-one meetings became standard in tech companies and drove decades of phenomenal growth.
Now many organizations mandate one-on-one meetings and yet, often provide no training. As a result, many managers fall back to stale or boring agendas and just try to check the box that they met with their employees. Without training and an understanding of what good leadership looks like, it’s easy to fall into traps that lead to lower results.
However, with just a few tips, you can make one-on-ones the most productive time in your week. First, you need to know the purpose of one-on-ones. Second, you’ll need to know what your direct reports want from their time with you. Then all you need is a few tactical tips, and you can start running great meetings and getting better results.
I cover all this and more in my free leadership workshop: One-on-Ones that Motivate. I run this workshop regularly, so check the registration page below to sign up for the next.
Sign up for This Free Leadership Workshop Now
So, if you are looking to improve your leadership style, sign up for my free leadership workshop: One-on-Ones that Motivate.
Wednesday, Sept. 17, 3-4 PM Eastern Time.
Don’t forget: This September I’m also offering a new workshop called Leadership Essentials, for those who are really serious about developing an inspirational leadership style. Take your career into your own hands and learn how to boost team performance. Learn more here.
