Communication Drives Action: Why Clear Teams Win with David Lengyel

So when you're doing this work, I know in developing teams, trust is a big piece of it, right? So, you know, everybody will say, if I trust this leader, I'm more likely to follow them.

I want to follow them.

I seek their guidance.

What do people do or what can leaders do to try to build that trust? And how does that come into play when you're doing this kind of experiential training?

Right.

So, you know, and there's always these kind of short snippets of definitions for things, right? But A couple of really quick points.

And that is, you know, I don't think team building and leadership development is real complicated.

I think it's fairly simple.

I think innately all of us know how to do a lot of these things.

But like I said, we have different definitions, different priorities, different dreams and so forth.

And so, okay, how do we get somebody to build trust? Well, it really starts with communications.

And we've all heard that.

And it's really easy to say, but it's hard to do.

And the reason is that if you don't communicate, nothing else happens, right? We don't build trust, clarity, alignment, nothing.

All goes out the window.

But then, so what is good communications? Well, we know it's two ways.

Check for understanding, check for clarity.

We've all heard it, right? But how often do we really do that? And the reality is that most people think they're really good at communicating.

Because we do it all day.

We talk to people, we have meetings, we send emails.

But the point is, is that most of us have to really work at it because as we get better and better at anything, we also start taking it for granted and we start minimizing the communications around it.

And so I'll just say, hey, well, you know what I mean.

Take care of this.

Or the way we did it before, just take care of it.

But the point is, is that communications is the key.