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To Create Strong Teams, Leaders Need To Get Comfortable Feeling Weak Ninety percent of leaders want feedback—but most stay silent, fearing it will make them look weak. When the C-suite cannot be vulnerable, organizations risk losing the insights that fuel growth and resilience.

Listen to the Shameless Leadership podcast to hear Emily share how to assess and develop your leadership capacity and her recent research on feedback, vulnerability, and leadership.

Employees are expected to bring bold ideas but fear career consequences if they fail.

LEADERSHIP DISCONNECT 63% of senior leaders would seek input more often from their teams if it did not make them look weak, according to our Harris Poll research with Turas Leadership.

How To Close The Employee Feedback Gap And Retain Top Talent…

Multiple studies suggest emotionally intelligent leadership is critical for success and can be learned.

Leaders want team input but fear the cost of asking, study finds.

Turas points out that most organizations build psychological safety downward (for teams), but not upward or inward (for leaders). When leaders don’t feel safe to model vulnerability, openness, and shared decision-making, those behaviors don’t take root anywhere else.

New Leadership Research Reveals a Critical Disconnect: Leaders Want More Input But Fear The Cost of Asking For It