Thriving Teams highly depend on good leadership. Have you as a leader critically assessed your own leadership style? Have you acknowledged you might not have all the answers and might need support with how you lead your teams, have you been open and willing to learn?

Have you looked at how your words, body language and behaviour might be affecting your teams? If the answer is no, let’s start with you first. When you can make positive changes, you might be surprised how it will affect your team.

Teams thrive when there is trust, when members feel safe to express themselves, when there is respect instead of judgement, when there is an environment where collaboration is valued and encouraged.

For this to happen emotional intelligence is required. We need to know and increasingly improve on understanding our own reactions and behaviours and manage our triggers as well as develop empathy for others and know how to treat them. Other important skills are goalsetting, creating balance in our lives and knowing where to put our focus and what to prioritize.

Open Hearth organizes workshops and programs around these topics and the services can be customized to what best fits your organization. We are happy to discuss the various options with you.

I really appreciate how these workshops require us to be vulnerable. The sharing helps us to bond and helps one to realize they are not alone. In addition, we can support each other in finding solutions.

 – Steve, Workshop Participant.