Wondering how to build trust as a leader?
I explain it all in my book…
The Currency of Connection.
Discover how trust influences how we show up, how we engage with others and how we sink or swim at work.
Our work and lives revolve around relationships.
The quality of those relationships
determines the quality of our experience.
Do any of these sound familiar to you?
I keep hearing about trust and psychological safety but I’ve no idea why I should care as a leader/parent/custodian/human...
When relationships get tense I’m never sure how to respond - it’s awkward…
My team/family/group tend to get on really well, but when things get hard, feelings get hurt and getting past it isn’t easy…
I know what it feels like to not trust other people, but I’m not sure what I can do to earn their trust in me…
Can’t I just expect trust as a leader/parent/custodian? Why would I have to work at it?
I’m not sure how to build trust with people I struggle to like or even respect…
I want to trust the people around me, but I don’t know how…
How do you actually build trust?
If this sounds like you, then The Currency of Connection can help.
After reading the book you’ll know...
How trust changes how you feel about - and act in - all of the relationships in your life, whether it’s with yourself, others, or the places you live and work.
What a fear-free workplace looks like and how to lead to create an eco-system of psychological safety, trust and performance in your team, no matter what’s happening in the rest of the organisation.
Why some people trust easily and others don’t, and why trust can feel different between cultures and strategies for working through both.
How to recognise when trust is present - and when it’s not - and how respond so you’re always managing it with confidence and composure.
How to incorporate trust as a leader, in all of your relationships - you’ll also have the thinking prompts, tools and strategies to get started.
Trust is something we can all agree on.
We’d all like a little more of it.
If we could trust ourselves, each other and our workplaces a little more, our quality of life would undeniably improve.
But how? And that’s the issue.
We’re craving something we don’t understand at a human level.
How do we create trust? What unintentionally breaks it? How do you restore it when it’s lost? And how can we create more? More self trust, more social trust and more organisational trust?
That’s what The Currency of Connection tackles.
This book is for you if you want…
To create energised and resilient teams
Find better ways of navigating change or uncertainty
Build genuinely human workplaces
From understanding how psychological safety changes the way you work, to creating sustainable engagement in a team, to to aligning personal aspirations with both team and organisational performance; trust enables each step.
It navigates us beyond the hard work of ‘letting go’ and the discomfort of vulnerability, to finding peace with becoming more ‘emergent’ in a rapidly changing world.
The Currency of Connection
For understanding how to nurture and rebuild trust…
At the level of self, so you can replace self doubt with understanding and appreciation…
At a social level, so you can replace emotional tension with creative tension…
And at the organisational level so you can learn to lead with trust in mind, for better team alignment and collaboration, more reliable performance and more resilience with change…
This book is filled with thinking prompts, strategies, tips and tools to help you deepen trust in every relationship that needs it.
Who am I?
Teresa Mitrovic
Managing Director & Founder, Oro Collective
I don't just talk about this stuff; I do it. I worked in corporate leadership roles for 18 years at Hasbro, The Walt Disney Company and Universal Pictures. I know what it feels like to lead teams, manage profit and loss, and front up to stakeholders about performance. I do this work, because the first time I applied thinking like this, we reduced our work hours, improved work quality and 3x our profit.
I've helped hundreds of leaders to improve performance through trust and psych safety. Since 2011 I've helped leaders internationally, from commercial and govt backgrounds, to lift team performance, create alignment among disparate groups with competing agendas - and actually have fun doing it. You can see some of the more recognisable companies I've worked with below...
I know what takes teams from 'good' to 'great'. It's vulnerability based trust, also referred to as psychological safety - and it's a critical condition for optimal performance. If your workplace requires people to create, strategise, solve, connect with others, deliver through people - then being attuned to the balance of psychological stress and psychological safety is essential.