Trust Drives Innovation

Be a Better Leader | Season 7, Episode 1

In this episode of Be a Better Leader, Jeffery Downs, a FranklinCovey managing director, discusses the relationship between trust and innovation with bestselling author and thought leader Stephen M. R. Covey. Listen as they share insights about the profound impact of trust on fostering innovation. Learn how a culture of trust encourages your people to collaborate, take calculated risks, and transform managers into leaders.

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Most of the world still operates from an outdated style of leadership. This style focuses on control, competing, and self-interest.

With how quickly the world has changed, this calls for a new style of leadership—Trust & Inspire—where leaders build trust by modeling it. Their job is to go first.

Download these 7 Steps to Create an Environment of Trust on Your Team and share them with leaders in your organization to help cultivate Trust & Inspire leaders.

7 Steps to Create an Environment of Trust on Your Teams

The Business Case for Trust

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Breaking Down Barriers to Communication With Trust

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Learn the importance of Trust for leaders and how profoundly it affects performance, while learning key skills and attributes for building a high-trust organizational culture

Uncover the keys to fostering trust and effective communication. Delve into the crucial connection between trust and communication in leadership.

Dive into the heart of leadership and employee engagement with Stephen M. R. Covey and Jeffery Downs. Listen to their conversation on how trust profoundly impacts engagement in the workplace.

Discover how leaders can create environments that inspire unwavering loyalty in this conversation between FranklinCovey’s Dr. AJ Lee and Doug Faber.

Explore the connection between trust and productivity and how trust empowers individuals to excel.

You started down the pathway of recharging your leaders, your teams, your culture, and your results. But once you get started, how do you keep it going?

Organizations, teams, and individuals face many challenges. But developing a winning culture looms as one of the make-or-break variables in an organization’s success.

Our teams and responsibilities are all interconnected. But in times of change, uncertainty, or mounting projects, silos can form, and it becomes easy to lose the power that comes from collaboration.

With constant demands and competing priorities, we know that all leaders must help their teams identify the most important tasks and find a way to accomplish them. Few things can burn out a team like

What if all your organization’s leaders could identify their weaknesses but instead steer toward their strengths? What difference could that make for them and their teams?

How can we continue to deliver results and improve when there’s so much going on both inside and outside of our organizations? Learn what the “Performance Curve” is and how it can unlock potential.

Leena Rinne is joined by FranklinCovey’s global practice leader for The Speed of Trust, Doug Faber, to talk about how a leader can build trust to foster growth, innovation, and success.

FranklinCovey Benelux CEO Thijs Westerink joins Leena Rinne to share how to set your team up for success by creating a clear path to achieving your goals and objectives.

Marché Pleshette, a FranklinCovey senior consultant, and co-author of Change: How to Turn Uncertainty Into Opportunity, joins Leena Rinne to talk about the predictable pattern of change.

As a leader, it's not always easy to have tough conversations with team members who may be falling short. But when a leader creates a culture of feedback, everyone feels heard and respected.

Teams with inclusive leaders report higher performance. Daniel Martin, a FranklinCovey senior solutions architect, joins Leena Rinne to talk about the differences between diversity and inclusion.

One of the biggest changes when transitioning to a leadership role for the first time is making the mindset shift from an individual contributor to a leader.

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As a strategic leader, you know your most important goals—but how do you know you’re making progress toward achieving them?

If you’re constantly overwhelmed by everything in the whirlwind, how can you step out of 'urgency culture' and give attention to what moves you toward your goals?