43% of Your Team Is Too Scared to Tell You the Truth | Janice Honeycutt Herring

"What you think about me is not my business — but how you experience me is all of my business." — Janice Honeycutt HerringYour team is passive-aggressive. Engagement is soft. The best people on your bench have stopped pushing back in meetings. You've diagnosed it as a culture problem, a communication problem, a headcount problem. Janice Honeycutt Herring has a different diagnosis: look in the mirror.A nationally recognized CEO and executive coach with over 30 years of experience and Awards of Excellence for her work since 2018, Janice has spent her career helping accomplished executives discover the thing their teams already know — and can't say out loud. The gap between how leaders think they're showing up and how they're actually landing on the people around them isn't a soft-skills problem. It's a strategic liability with a measurable cost.In this episode, Karl and Janice get into the mechanics of self-awareness as a leadership discipline — not the inspirational version, but the operational one. The five voices framework, the 10-second pause, and the uncomfortable math behind why 43% of your team may be absorbing your intensity in silence.In this episode, you'll learn:Why the behaviors that got you to the C-suite are often the same ones quietly eroding your team's performance — and why you're the last one to see itThe "Five Voices" framework (Pioneer, Connector, Guardian, Creative, Nurturer) and how identifying your dominant voice changes how you lead every meeting, 1:1, and high-stakes conversationWhy 43% of the population are Nurturers — and what happens when you roll out a big company change without getting one in your corner firstHow self-awareness physically extends your reaction window from a split second to 10 seconds — and why that gap is where leadership actually happensThe reason Janice brings her clients' spouses to coaching sessions (it's not therapy — it's feedback architecture)What it means to create an objective vocabulary for your team so difficult feedback stops landing as personal attacksWhy "if you don't like your reality, look at how you're leading" is the most actionable note any executive can receive — and the hardest one to hearIf your team has stopped telling you the uncomfortable things, this episode is the conversation your most trusted direct report has been hoping someone else would start.#H2H #RelationshipDrivenGrowth #StartupLeadership #CompanyCulture #B2BRelationships===You can connect with Janice Honeycut here:www.firecrackerleadership.comhttps://janicehoneycutt.giantos.com/store/proYou can connect with Karl Pontau here:www.vouchedconnections.comwww.thehumanconnectionpodcast.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/kpontauhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUbf_bDWwB9KVrFn5Sj3u2w?sub_confirmation=1Please like, subscribe, and share this episode with somebody you care about!