{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Living Workplace - People-First Leadership, Employee Engagement, Team Building & Teamwork","title":"EP#12 - Communication Flow That Builds Teamwork","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1223,"description":"This episode is about learning how to engage your team in communication flow that inspires everyone to work together, supports team foundations and is louder than the conversations going on outside the room. \n\nHave you ever imagined what it would feel like if your team brought things to you, instead of you finding out something too late?\nDo you suspect your team says more to each other at smoko than they ever say to you?\nAre you not sure whether you're missing the quiet signs your team is giving off, or choosing not to look?\n\nI talk about communication flow: not the official kind, but the layer underneath it, in a look, a silence, a shared glance across a meeting. I believe that layer is important to get curious about and once you learn to read it, it becomes one of the most powerful tools you have to shift culture.\nI share what it looks like when a team finds its own language for teamwork, when gossip turns into someone genuinely being encouraged to talk to the right person, and when a team holds something as personal as a health scare with total privacy, solidarity and care. \nWhy was a \"shut door\" moment one that taught me how much trust travels through the smallest things, and why I believe your team's sense of safety and predictability starts with you.\n\nA snap team meeting, five minutes of planning together and how it turned into one text about a COVID lockdown, that said everything: \"Plan B.\" It's an example of proactive, trusted communication and what that looks like in practice, and it's the kind of team culture I believe every leader can build.\nI close with the one thing I'd invite you to try: get curious about what your team is already telling you, and start the conversations that let your voice be the one they hear loudest.\n\nIf you're ready to lead differently, this is your starting point.\nLet 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...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/GKNi7DdQU_BJeq0wbwgcreMIVqBVrvrZ70MLfbpabyA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84NzRi/ZDRjM2ZhMzc1NzI3/NmY5MTFiMjZiZGI3/OWJmZi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}