I just love the above quote from Simon Sinek, the author of "Start With Why."

If trust is low among people who work together, they’ll never become a harmonious, high-performing team. Most nurses have lived this experience in their clinical, academic, and entrepreneurial teams. 

Having a high-performing team is the most important distinction between businesses that thrive and those that fail because when people are focused on stress management or survival they are not contributing their best work!
 
Simon Sinek calls this essential ingredient the 'Circle of Trust'.

The First Step in Creating a Trusting Team

As soon as a nurse entrepreneur has a product, program, or service that’s making money, their next step is to start developing a harmonious, highly productive TEAM that helps them increase their income and have more free time. This initial team does not need to be expensive - the members can be very part-time in the beginning.

I’ve been a nurse manager and an entrepreneur since 1984, and today I teach nurse leaders how to grow their business, increase their income, and develop their best teams. I always recommend that nurses start their Circle of Trust by learning to trust themselves. This is essential for success because when we try to be something we’re not, we set ourselves up for failure, and when we’re trying to lead a team from that place, it’s a recipe for disaster.

Likewise, when we know our own energy profile, we can choose teammates whose energy and strengths are complementary to ours - they pick up where our strengths leave off - and this helps us create more value and leverage in our business than we could on our own. 

The Best Tool for Identifying Our Talents

The Talent Dynamics test is the best tool I’ve found for teams to identify their unique talents. Produced by GeniusU, this short self-assessment has helped thousands of people identify their strengths and understand how to grow complimentary, trusting team relationships that work! 

To help you learn a bit about its approach to identifying our talents, GeniusU offers a free Talent Dynamics “microdegree” here. But that’s just the tip of the ice cream cone!

The Nurse Entrepreneur Team Dynamics Course

If you’re longing to have more time, energy, and income from your business, you’ll want to learn how to develop a highly effective, harmonious team. 

My Nurse Entrepreneur Team Dynamics* course teaches nurses how to develop a “Circle of Trust” team that knows how to leverage its strengths and energies, brilliantly! 

To learn more about this course, simply CHOOSE A TIME IN MY CALENDAR when we can chat.

*This course is only offered four times a year. To maximize the amount of personal guidance each participant receives, enrollment is limited to a small group.