In a rapidly evolving corporate landscape, understanding what holds teams back is crucial for effective leadership.

Recently, we posed the question: "As a corporate leader, which of the following challenges do you find most significant within your team?"

The responses have revealed some eye-opening trends that we’ll dissect in today's episode.

If you want to improve your EQ skills, make it a priority for 2025.

You can seek help from a coach, mentor, co-worker, family member, or friend.

You can make it a habit to observe how people you interact with manage their emotions, good or bad, and to learn from them.

You can also pay close attention to your own emotions. Keep track of those people or situations that trigger a negative reaction from you.

Above all, use whatever visual or sound aids work best for you to keep EQ top of mind in 2025 and beyond.

In this episode I share tips on how focusing on your strengths, and on those of your team members, can maximize the collective business results.
Learn about the “Five Truths of a Strong Team” model from Gallup, and how it is not just individual talent that matters, but how team members collaborate, leverage the different CliftonStrengths themes and domains present in the team, and support one another in achieving common goals.

Do you want to know how the CliftonStrengths model from Gallup can help you uncover your natural talents and turn them into strengths?
This podcast will give you an introduction to this model.
Check it out.

Today I want to share three coaching tips that can help you grow your leadership capabilities:

1. Focus on your strengths.

2. Develop your emotional intelligence.

3. Hone your teamwork skills.

Mastering them can help leaders like you become more effective, adaptable, and empathetic, which translates into being better equipped to lead your teams, influence stakeholders, and drive organizational success.

If interested, schedule a free, no-strings-attached, coaching call with me @ https://calendly.com/percy-cannon/30min

One area I continue to see in corporate leadership teams that needs improvement is the low levels of cross-functional collaboration, which hinders their operational efficiency and strategic alignment. Simply put, each team tends to run like a separate entity.

The recipe that I give to leadership teams, which I originally learned from best-selling author Patrick Lencioni, is to have the leadership team become team #1 for its members.

Team #1 can foster a culture of collaboration, implementing integrated processes and systems, promoting open communication, and ensuring strong leadership and goal alignment across the organization.

As a leader, consider giving Team #1 a try.

What can a people manager like you do to reap the benefits of one-of-one meetings with your employees?
The short answer is to focus on “what’s in it” for your employees. How do you do that?
Listen to this episode for three tips to significantly improve the engagement, trust, performance management, and overall business impact of each of your employees through well run one-on-one meetings.

If you want to minimize politics and confusion, improve your organization’s productivity and the morale of your employees, and lower attrition of good people, consider applying the 4-step model of Organizational Health:

1. Align the behaviors of your team,

2. Align the intellectual clarity of your team by answering 6 critical questions,

3. Over-communicate this clarity to the rest of the organization, and

4. Reinforce this clarity through simple human and business systems.

Contact me so we can set up a free, 16-question assessment developed by Patrick Lencioni’s company, The Table Group, to determine where your organization has the biggest opportunity for growth.