Trust and Building Teams

How to build a culture of trust that enables accountability, ownership, and strong performance. A culture of trust is built through relationships where people trust you to consistently treat them with respect, fairness, and gratitude for the talents and ideas they bring to their work. When trust becomes a team norm, friction decreases, accountability increases, and teams perform without constant oversight.

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Why Senior Leadership Is a Team Sport

Senior leadership effectiveness depends less on individual capability and more on how work is shared and sustained. For much of a leadership career, success is built on personal capability. You learn fast.You take responsibility.You solve problems. That identity—the person who gets things done—is often what earns leaders their first big opportunities. At senior levels, however, that same strength can quietly hold you back — because senior leadership effectiveness depends less on individual capability and more on how work is shared…

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Why Strong Leaders Create Resistance Without Realizing It

Inadvertently, leaders create resistance when they focus too much on the work and not enough on the people doing the work. When leaders create resistance, upper management gets worried. For example, a CFO I worked with was referred to me by her CEO because employee satisfaction on her team was low and the error rate was too high. In our first conversation, she explained that she had spent the last two years improving processes: creating documentation, better record keeping, clarifying…

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Lisa D. Foster, Ph.D. ACC  is an independent coach. As an Associate Certified Coach by the International Coaching Federation, Lisa honors and abides by the ICF Code of Ethics.  All coaching sessions and consultations are confidential.

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