Ep. 104: How Your Stress Is Leaking Onto Your Team
About this episode
Tosca DiMatteo discusses how unresolved stress in leadership can negatively impact teams, using a personal story about a leaking dishwasher as a metaphor.
Today I talk about the leaky faucet of leadership, and this whole thing starts with a story about my dishwasher at home. About a year ago it started leaking about once every ten times we ran it. It was a nuisance, but I had no idea how to diagnose the situation. So I ignored solving the problem for good, and my husband wasn’t pushing for that either. We told ourselves it would go away, but of course it didn't. Many months later, our neighbors knocked on our door with a big water gush coming through their ceiling. At that moment I realized I had never once considered the small leak we'd been living with might be a problem for someone else. That's exactly what happens in leadership. We leak our negativity, our fear, and the pressure we're under (or put on ourselves), onto the people around us. We tell ourselves it was justified, the situation called for it, and that we had to be direct but not full of grace. But every time we do these things without addressing it, we're leaking what is unresolved within ourselves. We're putting people on alert and they wonder if they have to brace for how we will treat them tomorrow. The leaks don't blow up all at once. They add up. The boss who's…
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Host: Tosca DiMatteo
Topics covered
- leadership
- stress management
- team dynamics
- communication
- negativity
- personal development
Keywords
- leadership
- stress
- team
- negativity
- communication
- personal growth
- emotional impact
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