Hello and welcome to Episode 312 of The People Powered Business Podcast.
In this episode, we’re unpacking a confronting but powerful question: is your team’s performance actually a reflection of your leadership?
When something goes wrong in our teams, it’s easy to look straight at them.
But what if under-performance isn’t about capability at all?
What if it’s about clarity, communication and consistency?
I’m sharing why most performance issues are actually clarity issues, how undefined standards and unspoken expectations create confusion, and why emotional reactions instead of structured leadership conversations keep us stuck. If someone keeps getting it wrong, we need to ask ourselves what we’ve clearly defined as ‘right’.
We also explore the idea that what you tolerate becomes the norm. If lateness has no consequence, it becomes culture. If attitude slips and nothing happens, that tone spreads. If you quietly redo work instead of addressing it, quality control becomes your job forever. Teams calibrate to the lowest enforced standard.
Culture is not what we say, it’s what we repeat, what we ignore, what we reward and what we fix for them. The good news is that if standards are created through repetition, they can be reset the same way. I’ll challenge you to choose your next action step. Is it clarity, tolerance or culture alignment?
And over the next few weeks, I’ll be diving deeper into the leadership behaviours that reset standards faster than anything else.
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