Welcome to the Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast, and our title today is Five Keys to Building a Healthy Team.

Actually, I did a webinar on this recently, and we had such a massive response of 650 plus people that we felt it was worth doing in a podcast. So again, our topic is

five keys to a building a healthy team. So let's go right into it, all right? And again,

I've been doing this for, well, I guess 30 plus years. And so I've got a good, good list of failures and a few successes under my belt.

I do feel like it took me many years to actually become confident, secure, and a good

nuisance on what makes a great team or healthy team and what doesn't.

So I've distilled it here to five simple principles,

but each, of course, can be expanded quite a bit.

But let's take them one by one.

The first is a healthy you.

The first key to building a healthy team is a healthy you. And I say that

because over and above everything, tactic, ideas, strategy of building a healthy team is your

person. In other words, you transmit who you are in everything on that team as the leader.

And so that's why it is absolutely far and above, more important than anything else, that you're doing your work on yourself.

I'm talking about your shadow. I'm talking about your level of self-awareness. I'm

talking about doing things like a 360 to get input from the people around you. I'm talking about

whatever you need to grow in greater self-awareness of yourself. Because, see, if you you're a team leader your unresolved flaws and

shadow are very apparent on that team now people won't say anything to you unless you invite them

and if you invite them rarely will they give you a full rendering of themselves? That's why

360s are so powerful. But, you know, in the emotionally healthy leader book, the controlling

illustration is a skyscraper where I give four steel beams or pylings of a skyscraper that

have to go deep into the ground, that the deeper

...