Leading with Trust
Trust is the foundation of modern leadership. Voluntarily and with all our heart we only follow whom we trust. Frances Frei and Anne Morriss describe three drivers for trust: logic, authenticity and empathy.
Category: Leadership
United by the Crisis—Strengthened Out of It
The joint fight against an existential threat is able to weld people together in an organization. The prerequisite for this is a climate of psychological safety and leadership with purpose and trust instead of command and control.
Leadership Creates Safety
Trust and cooperation emerge in a climate of psychological safety. Where, conversely, competition and fear have been the predominant themes, strong unity cannot be expected in a crisis.
The Five Pillars of Well-Being
In which environment do people flourish and what makes them wither? And what essential categories are there, anyway, to influence this process. Where can leadership exert its influence? The PERMA model by psychologist Martin Seligman offers some very good answers.
Flourishing Landscapes Instead of Dead Wood
How do you motivate plants? Some tried and tested practices from everyday management in hierarchical organizations can help here. Or maybe not?
Purpose and Trust in Crisis
Remote work and leadership at a distance is based on purpose and trust. Where these are missing, the corona crisis becomes a crisis of purpose and trust. One can learn from this—or reboot the previous operating system of the organization as quickly as possible.