Maria and Michelle are super excited to be starting their new series on ‘Lencioni’s 5 Dysfunctions of a Team’. This is a book that many organizations employ to help generate a more successful and well-rounded team within their organization, and each week, our hosts will break down each of the 5 dysfunctions and look at ways to achieve their opposite within your teams. This week, they start the series by looking at the most critical of these dysfunctions, the absence of trust.
They begin by identifying the root cause of an absence of trust, reviewing the critical role that trust plays in a team, and offering some symptoms of this absence. They discuss the long history of the ‘failure is not an option’ atmosphere and how to fix it, Michelle shares her ‘aha moment’ from the book, and they emphasize the key role that the leader plays in establishing trust. They finish up with some of Michelle’s positive work experiences involving trust, as well as some examples of team building, vulnerability, and trust building activities. As the first installment of the new series, today’s episode is a highly important one, delving deeply into one of the essential building blocks of a successful organization. Whether you are an employee or a leader, you will definitely find the information and advice offered today extremely valuable.
The Finer Details of This Episode:
Quotes:
“As peers or as teammates, we start to believe that it is unacceptable to show our weaknesses or to be vulnerable with one another.”
“Really, from early in our lives, we are taught that when you take risks and fail, that there will be negative consequences.”
“You will get leaders that purposely help you critique out the mistakes, because…work doesn’t want you to fail.”
“Absence of trust with organizations…it starts with leaders.”
“People will teach you how to react or respond to them based on the way they respond to what you do or say, right?”
“All successes and all failures lead to the leader.”
“Everybody plays a part in the whole process.”
“We were really allowing our self-talk to impact our ability to trust our team and be vulnerable with our team.”
“You can’t do it alone, you can’t do it without your leader, and you have to have buy-in from all of your peers. Trust is hard.”
Show Links:
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