# Leadership Articles & Resources

Explore research-backed insights and practical guidance on leadership development, team performance, and organizational growth.

## High Performing Teams

**High Performing Teams: What They Are, Why They Matter, and How to Build Them**  
A high performing team consistently exceeds expectations through shared purpose, psychological safety, and mutual accountability. They deliver 23% higher profitability, 51% lower turnover, and 78% less absenteeism.  
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**What Is a High Performing Team?**  
A high performing team is a group of people with complementary skills who share a common purpose and consistently exceed expectations through psychological safety, trust, and shared accountability.  
[5 min read](/content/high-performing-teams/what-is-a-high-performing-team/index.html)

**High Performing Teams Frameworks: 6 Models Reviewed**  
The most effective high performing teams frameworks are Hackman's 6 Conditions, Google's Project Aristotle, and Edmondson's Psychological Safety research.  
[13 min read](/content/high-performing-teams/frameworks/index.html)

**High Performing Team Training**  
Most team training focuses on the team. We focus on the leaders who shape it.  
[4 min read](/content/high-performing-teams/training/index.html)

**How to Build a High Performing Team (Evidence-Based Guide)**  
Building a high performing team takes six things: psychological safety, clear direction, the right structure, supervisor support, spaced development over months, and leaders who model the behaviours they want to see.  
[10 min read](/content/high-performing-teams/how-to-build/index.html)

**7 Characteristics of High Performing Teams**  
Research on high performing teams is everywhere. This article covers the seven characteristics that research and 8,000+ leader reflections consistently identify.  
[11 min read](/content/high-performing-teams/characteristics-of-high-performing-teams/index.html)

## Emerging Leaders

**Emerging Leaders: The Complete Guide to Developing Your Next Generation of Leaders**  
The transition from individual contributor to people leader is one of the most critical moments in a career. This guide covers what emerging leaders are, why most fail, and how organisations can develop them effectively.  
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**The 12 Challenges Every Emerging Leader Faces (And How to Overcome Them)**  
You got promoted. Now what? This article covers the 12 challenges that research and 8,000+ leader reflections consistently reveal.  
[14 min read](/content/emerging-leaders/challenges/index.html)

**The Skills Emerging Leaders Need to Develop**  
The essential skills for emerging leaders, organised into four categories: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management.  
[10 min read](/content/emerging-leaders/skills/index.html)

**What Is an Emerging Leader?**  
A clear definition of emerging leaders and why this transition is one of the most consequential moments in a person's career.  
[9 min read](/content/emerging-leaders/what-is-an-emerging-leader/index.html)

**How to Develop Emerging Leaders: A Guide for HR and L&D**  
Most organisations promote people into leadership, then leave them to figure it out. This guide covers what the research says about developing emerging leaders.  
[10 min read](/content/emerging-leaders/developing-emerging-leaders/index.html)

**Emerging Leader Characteristics: How to Identify Your Future Leaders**  
How to identify emerging leaders by looking beyond performance.  
[11 min read](/content/emerging-leaders/characteristics/index.html)

## Emotional Intelligence

**Emotional Intelligence for Leaders**  
Why emotional intelligence predicts leadership success—and how to develop it.  
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**How to Improve Emotional Intelligence**  
The question isn’t whether emotional intelligence can be developed. It’s about what really changes behaviour.  
[8 min read](/content/emotional-intelligence/how-to-improve/index.html)

**Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace**  
The business case for EI development and how leading organisations are investing in it.  
[12 min read](/content/emotional-intelligence/in-the-workplace/index.html)

**12 Signs of Low Emotional Intelligence**  
How to spot low emotional intelligence in yourself or your organisation.  
[14 min read](/content/emotional-intelligence/signs-of-low-emotional-intelligence/index.html)

**Emotional Intelligence Training: 18,000 Leaders' Reflections**  
After 450 programs and 18,000 reflections, we've seen exactly where it breaks down.  
[15 min read](/content/emotional-intelligence/training/index.html)

## Resilience

**Resilience Training: What 2,430 Leaders Told Us**  
[11 min read](/content/resilience/training/index.html)

## Psychological Safety

**Psychological Safety**  
What psychological safety is, why it matters, and how to build it.  
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**Psychological Safety Training: A Guide for Australian Organisations**  
Learn what effective training includes and how to evaluate your options.  
[5 min read](/content/psychological-safety/training/index.html)

**How to Build Psychological Safety: 7 Steps for Leaders**  
A practical guide to building psychological safety through 7 proven steps.  
[6 min read](/content/psychological-safety/how-to-build/index.html)

**Psychological Safety Examples: Signs, Patterns & Warning Signals**  
Understand psychological safety through practical examples.  
[5 min read](/content/psychological-safety/examples/index.html)

**Amy Edmondson's Research on Psychological Safety**  
Learn about her frameworks and how Google validated her findings.  
[5 min read](/content/psychological-safety/edmondson-research/index.html)

**What Is Psychological Safety?**  
A shared belief that the team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking.  
[4 min read](/content/psychological-safety/what-is-psychological-safety/index.html)

## Difficult Conversations

**Difficult Conversations Training: What 41,000 Leader Reflections Taught Us**  
[15 min read](/content/difficult-conversations/training/index.html)

## Team Building

**Team Building Training: Why Most Fail & What Actually Works in 2026**  
Most team building fails within a week.  
[8 min read](/content/team-building/training/index.html)

## Leadership Training

**Leadership Training Australia**  
Leda delivers leadership training across Australia.  
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**Leadership Training Brisbane**  
Local team on the ground.  
[2 min read](/content/leadership-training-australia/leadership-training-brisbane/index.html)

**Leadership Training Melbourne**  
Evidence-based programs with 88-93% completion rates.  
[2 min read](/content/leadership-training-australia/leadership-training-melbourne/index.html)

**Leadership Training Perth**  
Designed for distributed teams.  
[2 min read](/content/leadership-training-australia/leadership-training-perth/index.html)

**Leadership Training Sydney**  
Evidence-based programs with 88-93% completion rates.  
[2 min read](/content/leadership-training-australia/leadership-training-sydney/index.html)

**Leadership Training for Managers: What Actually Works**  
What separates training that sticks from training that's forgotten by Monday.  
[4 min read](/content/leadership-training-australia/leadership-training-for-managers/index.html)