Does your team protect each other or quietly work against each other?

Are you still doing the operational work when you know you should be stepping back?

Do mistakes in your team create anxiety and silence rather than learning and solutions?

Knowing safety and trust are low is one thing. Knowing what to actually do about it is another.

In this episode I share the practical side; the small, intentional moves that shift a team's dynamic from guarded to genuinely engaged. I include the simplest request I’ve ever made to a team that got eyes rolling and the ball rolling, how mistakes handled well become one of the fastest trust builders available to any leader, and where you and your team sit across Dr Timothy Clark's four stages of psychological safety.

People-first leadership is heart stuff. This episode shows you what that looks like in practice.

If you're ready to lead differently, this is your starting point.

Let The Living Workplace podcast build your thinking one conversation at a time. Start with the free Leadership Self-Assessment and find out exactly where you and your team are right now. Or dive straight into The Olive Tree Method and begin tending the conditions around your people with intention.

Resources:
Podcast - > www.theolivetreemethod.com/the-living-workplace-podcast
Where Are You Now? - > www.theolivetreemethod.com/leadership-self-assessment

09.12 Dr Timothy Clark (Book) - The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety

Next Steps:

Step 1: Take the Leadership Self-Assessment - www.theolivetreemethod.com/leadership-self-assessment

Step 2: Sign up and make the The Olive Tree Method yours - www.theolivetreemethod.com

Step 3: Reach out if you have queries - josey@theolivetreemethod.com

Step 4: Listen to the next episodes:
Episode #06 – Mistakes

Episode #07 – Predictability & Stability – How Things Show Up When They Aren’t Present

Episode #08 – Predictability & Stability – How to Improve These in Your Team

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If you found value in today's episode, please subscribe and leave me a review on Apple Podcasts or your favorite listening platform. I’d be incredibly grateful. Your feedback helps evolve the content to bring people-first service and stewardship into the workplaces of today.

If you’re curious and ready to lead differently. I’m so glad you’re here.

Do you ever feel like your team goes quiet at exactly the wrong moment?

Do you find yourself making decisions without the full picture because people aren't telling you what's really going on?

Are mistakes held up as wins or disasters?

Psychological safety is the number one predictor of team effectiveness above skills, experience and individual performance. So why is it missing in most workplaces?

Through research, real stories and one moment that made it impossible to ignore I unpack what safety and trust actually looks like when they're present and when they're not. I include what happens to your best people, your decision making and your team's energy when safety is low and what shifts when you start to build it intentionally.

Safety is fundamental to team success and the #1 predictor of it’s effectiveness. Trust builds safety.

Getting these two right sets the stage for engagement and team journey.

If you're ready to lead differently, this is your starting point.

Let The Living Workplace podcast build your thinking one conversation at a time. Start with the free Leadership Self-Assessment and find out exactly where you and your team are right now. Or dive straight into The Olive Tree Method and begin tending the conditions around your people with intention.

Resources:
Podcast - > www.theolivetreemethod.com/the-living-workplace-podcast
Where Are You Now? - > www.theolivetreemethod.com/leadership-self-assessment

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DJQuWEQhFg

Amy Edmondson (Book) - The Fearless Organisation - https://amycedmondson.com/books/

Google Project Artistotle - https://rework.withgoogle.com/intl/en/guides/understand-team-effectiveness

Next Steps:

Step 1: Take the Leadership Self-Assessment - www.theolivetreemethod.com/leadership-self-assessment

Step 2: Sign up and make the The Olive Tree Method yours - www.theolivetreemethod.com

Step 3: Reach out if you have queries - josey@theolivetreemethod.com

Step 4: Listen to the next episodes:
Episode #05 - Safety & Trust - How to Bring Them Into your Team

Episode #06 - Mistakes

Subscribe & Review:

If you found value in today's episode, please subscribe and leave me a review on Apple Podcasts or your favorite listening platform. I’d be incredibly grateful. Your feedback helps evolve the content to bring people-first service and stewardship into the workplaces of today.
If you’re curious and ready to lead differently. I’m so glad you’re here.

This episode is for the leader who suspects there's a better way and is ready to find out what it is.

Are you wearing the fireman's hat more than you'd like?

Are you stuck in reactive mode, solving problems that keep coming back?

Do you sense your team has more to give but something's getting in the way?

Are you the leader who's ready to look inward, not just outward?

People-first leadership is the quality that separates the world's top 30% of organisations from the rest. It isn't about being soft or abandoning results. It's about understanding the conditions around your people and leading those intentionally so performance, engagement and team cohesion follow naturally.

I share in this episode the team transformation that started it all, what people-first leadership actually looks like in practice, and who this podcast is, and isn't, for.

If you're ready to lead differently, this is your starting point.

Let The Living Workplace podcast build your thinking one conversation at a time. Start with the free Leadership Self-Assessment and find out exactly where you and your team are right now. Or dive straight into The Olive Tree Method and begin tending the conditions around your people with intention.

Resources:
Podcast - > www.theolivetreemethod.com/the-living-workplace-podcast
Where Are You Now? - > www.theolivetreemethod.com/leadership-self-assessment
Reach Out - > josey@theolivetreemethod.com

Next Steps:
Step 1: Take the Leadership Self-Assessment - www.theolivetreemethod.com/leadership-self-assessment

Step 2: Sign up and make the The Olive Tree Method yours - www.theolivetreemethod.com

Step 3: Reach out if you have queries - josey@theolivetreemethod.com

Step 4: Listen to the next episodes:
Episode #03 - The Leadership Quality that No-One Talks About
Episode #04 - Safety & Trust - How They Show Up (or Don’t)

Episode #05 – Safety & Trust – How to Bring Them Into Your Team

Subscribe & Review:

If you found value in today's episode, please subscribe and leave me a review on Apple Podcasts or your favorite listening platform. I’d be incredibly grateful. Your feedback helps evolve the content to bring people-first service and stewardship into the workplaces of today.

If you’re curious and ready to lead differently. I’m so glad you’re here.

This episode is about the moment you become a leader, you become someone else's conditions.

Do you ever feel like you're giving everything to your team but something still isn't clicking?

Have you caught yourself telling your team to have balance while quietly running on empty yourself?

Have the conditions around you changed and you're not sure how to lead through it without losing the team?

Most of us are promoted because we're good at our jobs. Nobody hands us a manual for the people part. In this episode I unpack the one thing that quietly shapes everything in your team, your self-awareness as a leader, and why without it, even the best intentions can send the wrong signal.

Through a real story about a team member who went from everyone's least favourite interaction to one of the most trusted people in the room, I show what shifts when a leader chooses to understand rather than manage. Practical, honest and a little confronting in the best way.

If you're ready to lead differently, this is your starting point.

Let The Living Workplace podcast build your thinking one conversation at a time. Start with the free Leadership Self-Assessment and find out exactly where you and your team are right now. Or dive straight into The Olive Tree Method and begin tending the conditions around your people with intention.

Resources:
Podcast - > www.theolivetreemethod.com/the-living-workplace-podcast
Where Are You Now? - > www.theolivetreemethod.com/leadership-self-assessment
Simon Sinek (Book) Leaders Eat Last - https://simonsinek.com/books/leaders-eat-last

How To Draw the Line:
Above The Line-Below The Line - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLqzYDZAqCI

Next Steps:
Step 1: Take the Leadership Self-Assessment - www.theolivetreemethod.com/leadership-self-assessment

Step 2: Sign up and make the The Olive Tree Method yours - www.theolivetreemethod.com

Step 3: Reach out if you have queries - josey@theolivetreemethod.com

Step 4: Listen to the next episodes:
Episode #04 - Safety & Trust - How They Show Up (or Don’t)

Episode #05 – Safety & Trust - How To Bring Them Into your Team.

Tired of a lack of team cohesion?

Worried about finding the time to bring your team together?

Frustrated with a lack of ownership within your team?

Drained from a feeling of always running out of time?

Kick those experiences to the curb, it’s time to dig in…

This episode is for the leader who knows something could be better and is ready to find out what.

People-first leadership changes the conditions around your team in ways that are simple, intentional and sustainable.
In this trailer, I introduce the podcast and The Olive Tree Method Ecosystem. Three ways in to learning how 30% of the World’s best lead and succeed by putting their people first. A workplace where people genuinely thrive, performance follows naturally, and you're not doing it alone.

Start with the free Leadership Self-Assessment and find out exactly where you and your team are right now.
Let The Living Workplace podcast build your thinking one conversation at a time.
Or dive straight into The Olive Tree Method and begin tending the conditions around your people with intention.

Next Steps:

Step 1: Take the Leadership Self-Assessment - www.theolivetreemethod.com/leadership-self-assessment

Step 2: Sign up and make the The Olive Tree Method yours - www.theolivetreemethod.com

Step 3: Reach out if you have queries - josey@theolivetreemethod.com

Step 4: Podcasts about to be released:

Episode #1 - What is People-First Leadership Qualities and Why Does 30% of the World’s Best Believe It’s the Way to Lead?

Episode #2 - The Leadership Quality that No-One Talks About.

Episodes #3 & 4 - Safety & Trust - How They Show Up (or don’t) and How To Bring Them Into Your Team.

Subscribe & Review:

If you found value in today's episode, please subscribe and leave me a review on Apple Podcasts or your favorite listening platform. I’d be incredibly grateful. Your feedback helps evolve the content and add the value that we all need to live and bring service and stewardship into the workplaces of today.

If you’re curious or ready to lead differently. I’m so glad you’re here.