Episode 106: Through Fresh Eyes: What Your Team’s Culture Reveals About Your Leadership

Episode 106

Through Fresh Eyes: What Your Team’s Culture Reveals About Your Leadership

Episode Summary

Your team's culture is built on what people see day to day: whether anyone pushes back, which behaviour gets a pass, and what happens when something goes wrong. New employees bring a fresh perspective on that culture, and on your leadership too. If you want an honest read on your leadership, start with your newest hire.

Key Points:

• New employees learn quickly whether it's safe to disagree with you. They notice whether anybody pushes back in meetings, and if no one does, they'll learn to keep their opinions to themselves too.

• Whatever behaviour you let slide becomes the real standard, so calling it out, even in a quick private conversation, shows your team what your values actually mean.

• How you react when something goes wrong decides whether people bring you problems early or try to fix them quietly, and owning your own mistakes makes it safe for everyone else to do the same.

Resources

• Blog Posts

  • Your Core Values Aren't Wall Art: Intentionally Creating Your Culture

  • Who's Really Leading Your Team: How Informal Influence Shapes Your Culture

  • Fuzzy, Disconnected, or Missing: The Real Work of Building Culture

  • The Hidden Key to Thriving Teams: How Trust Unlocks Team Potential

• Simon Sinek

• Brené Brown

  • Dare to Lead

• The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team

• Free Leadership Toolbox

Related Episodes

• Your Culture is Talking: What is it Actually Telling You?

• You Get What You Tolerate: Building, Protecting, and Defending Your Culture

• Too Agreeable to be Effective: Why Productive Conflict Makes Your Team Stronger

• Title Isn’t Trust: Spotting Influence Hiding in Plain Sight

• Fuzzy, Flat, and Flailing: Why Your Culture Lost Its Energy (and How to Get It Back)
  

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About Jacquie:

Jacquie is the founder of Leadership and Life by Kayric Inc, where she blends the best of teaching, leadership, and the occasional The West Wing reference to help non-profits and small business build strong leaders and healthy teams. Utilizing DISC and The Five Behaviours of a Cohesive team, combined with teaching knowledge and experience, Jacquie strives to empower leaders with the skills no one taught them and to create teams who want to work together.

Formerly a junior high teacher (who loves teenagers), Jacquie brings a decade of classroom wisdom, ten years corporate training experience, a growth mindset, and a sprinkle of mild rebellion to her dynamic approach.

In her free time, Jacquie channels her passion for community improvement by volunteering with school councils, serving on non-profit boards, and generally finding ways to make her corner of the world a better place. You can also find her on the side of a soccer pitch, at Remedy Café or in her scrapbook room.

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