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Leadership Book Club: How to Read Courageous Cultures With Your Team

Let's Grow Leaders

Practical ways to engage your team (or leadership book club) as you read Courageous Cultures together. One of the real joys of being authors is hearing from leadership book clubs and teams who are reading our books together. And, you don’t get better at leadership or building culture just by reading a book.

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How to Encourage More Courage on Your Team (Team-Building Activity)

Let's Grow Leaders

If you want your team to feel more courageous, remind them of times they’ve been courageous before. This team-building activity gives your team a chance to reflect on their micro-moments of courage. First, we know from Dr. Amy Edmondson’s research on psychological safety, that how we think about the past matters.

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First Look: Leadership Books for September 2023

Leading Blog

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in September 2023 curated just for you. Edmondson We used to think of failure as the opposite of success. After decades of award-winning research, Amy Edmondson is here to upend our understanding of failure and make it work for us.

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10 Ways We Create Unhealthy Team Environments

Ron Edmondson

No one intentionally sets out to create unhealthy team environments, but I’ve seen it done so many times. There are things which injure the health of a team. Just as with a healthy team environment, creating an unhealthy team environment often happens – though perhaps unintentional – by things we do as leaders.

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Seven Indications Your Team is Dysfunctional

Ron Edmondson

What are some indications your team is dysfunctional? Chances are, if you’ve served on very many teams, you’ve served on a dysfunctional one. There are no perfect teams. And all teams are all dysfunctional during some seasons. Team members never feel valued or appreciated. Mediocrity is celebrated.

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A Big Communication Obstacle on Every Team

Ron Edmondson

There has been a big communication barrier on every team I have led. Most effective teams at some point will do a personality assessment of team members. But this major communication barrier, while it can be picked up some by a personality assessment, is still often overlooked (or misunderstood) on most teams.

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Team Friction Taught Me a Leadership Principle

Ron Edmondson

An important leadership principle was shaped for me during what seemed to be a normal season in our organization. It seemed things were healthy on the team. We had the right players and clarity of vision, however, team friction developed. This isn’t unusual on teams. So, the best teams will have friction at times.

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