Trusted to Thrive: How leaders create connected and accountable teams: How

There has never been a more important time to improve how we lead. This book will revolutionise your team's performance and your life. In these turbulent times, how do we create a supportive, productive and healthy team environment? That wonderful space where everyone works together, with high enthusiasm - solving problems, making fast decisions, achieving goals and collaborating with ease. It generates a positive buzz - a powerful energy that we all crave. And it's a place where we thrive as human beings, where we feel energised and empowered, connected and aligned through shared identity and purpose. We feel valued, creative and safe to share our opinion. It's a place where we feel that all is possible, that we're in this together and that the hard work is worth it. As the former CEO of an award-winning training video production company, Marie-Claire Ross discovered that it doesn't matter where you work or how you work. If you have trust as the foundation for your team environment, you can put your team anywhere and under enormous pressure, and they will thrive. In this ground-breaking book, she combines the latest behavioural techniques and on-the-ground insights into practical leadership action. She systematically unpacks three hacks to improving team productivity, in order to create credible and connected teams. Along the way, she tells inspiring stories from successful Adore Beauty founder Kate Morris, leading CEOs and award-winning business leaders who have uncovered the secrets to creating a trusted team culture. This book will help you create a high achievement workplace where people wake up in the morning excited about going to work and hanging out with others equally invigorated by the opportunity to learn, experiment and solve complex problems.

Marie-Claire Ross is a trust leadership speaker, facilitator and coach. She started her career undertaking market research for some of Australia's biggest brands. Then, co-founded a video production house with her husband filming live television and creating safety induction videos. During her time leading Digicast Productions, she also wrote the book, Transform your Safety Communication.Learning how to build businesses and lead staff became a quest. In the end, she realised video production wasn't her passion. In 2014, she took the leap and started the company, Trustologie®, which helps senior executives, leadership teams and middle managers build trust within their teams and improve performance.She works around the world in organisations such as QANTAS, Novartis, Petronas, Pitcher Partners, Australian Tax Office and Seasol International. Marie-Claire lives with her family in Melbourne. When she is not training or writing, she can be found running, cooking vegan meals, renovating heritage homes or out in nature.