Walk Your Talk

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Leaders want their teams to be innovative collaborative and high performing. Employees cannot achieve these goals without a supportive work culture. In most settings psychological safety is the cultural cornerstone for an organization to reach its potential.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Walk Your Talk: Making Sense of Leadership</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> introduces you to the most up-to-date research in this area but what makes it unique is the lens through which it is written. Early in his career managers groomed Ted McKinney to be an authoritative command-and-control leader. Those behaviors invariably led to toxic work environments. As a scholar he wanted to understand these dysfunctional environments better. More importantly as a leader he wanted to know how to change them.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Dr. McKinney provides an evidence-based model for fostering psychologically safe work cultures and cultivating employee well-being. You will learn to capitalize on relationships between leadership behaviors employee sensemaking work culture and organizational success. Compelling case studies help readers unpack what works what doesn't and why. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Walk Your Talk</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> chronicles the stories studies and experiences that led to Ted's paradigm shift from viewing employees as adversaries to embracing them as allies.</span></p><p></p>