trust Archives - Strategic Leadership

21 Dec

Transparency Is Key to Building Trust in Business

By Kate Tuck
In Business, Trust

Transparency Is Key to Building Trust in Business - When an engine exploded on Qantas flight QF32 on Nov. 4, 2010, endangering the lives of 469 passengers and crew, the plane’s captain, Richard de Crespigny, didn’t curse, panic, or pray. Instead, he relied on the supreme trust he had...

10 Dec

A Brilliant Lesson in Emotional Understanding from Microsoft’s CEO

By Kate Tuck
In Leadership

Companies are encouraged to get ever-larger, yet is there really much evidence that big is often better? Big certainly makes a few people richer, but that's not quite the same thing. For years, indeed, Microsoft was famous for using its size to bully the reluctant into using the often...

22 Oct

Why Vulnerability is Essential to Becoming a Great Leader

By Kate Tuck
In Leadership

It's not fear that gets in the way of daring leadership. It's our armour. I’ve spent twenty years studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy, and I recently completed a seven-year study on brave leadership that was built around the following driving question: What, if anything, about the way people are...

24 Sep

Want to Set Your Colleague’s Salary Each Month?

By Kate Tuck
In Culture

Keytoe workers are going to decide upon each other’s salary through an app. In this app, we can rate each other on a daily basis on one score only: how you feel about your colleagues. The score you receive, and the revenue and costs of the company for that month, determine...

10 Sep

Are You Killing Your Career By Avoiding Conflict?

By Kate Tuck
In Conflict, Leadership, Personal Development

How Your Brain Handles Conflict - Many of us have been socialised or learned as adults that conflict is “bad” and in order to succeed, we should appear optimistic and positive at all times. Yet while this avoidance of conflict leads to superficial harmony, it denies what is really...

03 Sep

Death of Trust – Leadership in Low Trust Times

By Christopher Atkinson
In Leadership, Trust

Recently, I wrote an article that went viral. It concerned the conduct of a politician at the world cup. The behaviour I saw on the world stage seemed manifestly different to all the other world leaders she stood alongside and I wanted to write about that. What I hadn’t anticipated was...

26 Jul

The World Cup Leadership Story You Might Have Missed

By Christopher Atkinson
In Chris Atkinson, Leadership

While most media attention was on winners, losers, the players and their coaches, one brilliant example of leadership from the world cup slipped under the radar of many people. This was the story of Croatia's president, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic. What really caught my attention was that although the spotlight fell...

23 Apr

The biggest problem in your company no one wants to talk about – The Trust Gap

By Kate Tuck
In Culture

Chris Willis explores the biggest problem in your company that no one wants to talk about - The Trust Gap - Maybe Machiavelli was right.... The thought crept into my head as I sat at my tiny desk overlooking Wall Street. It was a bright fall afternoon, but doubt and the...

14 Mar

Dan Pink: This is how to give better feedback in just 19 words

By Kate Tuck
In Personal Development, Team

It certainly is important for everyone to develop skill in giving and receiving feedback. Set high expectations and encouraging people to set high expectations for themselves and those around them, equally powerful.This simple tip exemplifies the growth mindset. Psychological safety is really important for encouraging a growth mindset in...