Trust at Work: Reduce Distractions, Accellerate Results

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.

Five Ways Emotional Self-Expression Helps Motivate Your Team

July 21, 2022

Confidence and Managing Yourself, Trust and Building Teams

The key to emotional self-expression is the Goldilocks rule: not too much, not too little, just right.

Emotional Self-Awareness: The Strongest Predictor of Overall Success

June 30, 2022

Empathy and Managing Others, Trust and Building Teams

Building emotional self-awareness increases your ability to motivate, influence, and get results from others.

Are You a Leader or a Boss?

April 12, 2022

Alignment and Effective 1:1s, Trust and Building Teams

Find out what your leadership style is and why it matters in my new post on Forbes. Be a Leader, Not a Boss

How the Top Five Emotional Intelligence Skills Show Up at Work

April 8, 2022

Confidence and Managing Yourself, Decision Making Under Pressure, Trust and Building Teams

A primer for what it looks like to be high or low in these key emotional intelligence skills.

Six Leadership Styles: Differences & Advantages

February 25, 2022

Trust and Building Teams

Please see an updated version of this post here. Know which leadership styles contribute to high performance and which negatively affect productivity. Good leaders have a variety of different strategies and leadership styles that inspire others to achieve even ambitious goals. The more emotional intelligence they have, the better they know how to motivate the right people in the right way at the right time. It’s helpful to think of leadership like a toolkit. If you’re a builder and you…

A Tactical Advantage: How Leaders with Emotional Intelligence Training Create Better Teams

February 10, 2022

Trust and Building Teams

Emotional Intelligence training gives leaders techniques to improve performance up and down the company structure Emotional Intelligence Is the Basis for High Performing Teams What benefits your company more: focusing on numbers or focusing on people? Increasingly, companies that make the strategic choice to create a people-centered approach based in emotional intelligence are outperforming those with a profit-focused approach. Studies show that companies that have more female executives are more profitable. Research by McKinsey demonstrates the business case for diversity,…