If You Can’t Read Your Team, You’re Not Leading It - Part One

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of truly understanding your team as a leader and the pitfalls of assuming you know them without real engagement.

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! Most leaders think they know their teams. They don’t. And that blind spot is costing them more than they realize. Leaders aren’t reading their teams—they’re guessing. Projecting. Avoiding. Hiding behind data instead of having real conversations. Some don’t know their people at all. Others think they do—and are completely wrong. Quite frankly, ...

People in this episode

Hosts: Rich Baron, Maikel Bailey

Topics covered

• leadership
• team dynamics
• communication
• blind spots
• organizational behavior

Keywords

• leadership
• team reading
• communication
• blind spots
• organizational behavior

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