If you have been following the Norwood Teague story, you have surely read the 8/11/15 piece by the Star Tribune reporter who covers University of Minnesota athletics that revealed that she had been an ongoing Teague target dating back to December 13, 2013.

My perspective is that job one has to be the restoration of the relationship between police leadership and the community. Restoration of these more important relationships will only occur when public confidence in police leadership is rebuilt and restored.

Sometimes the only way to help organizations avoid embarrassment, humiliating visibility, enormous litigation, and just plain stupidity is to illustrate dramatically the pattern of behaviors and attitudes that lead to catastrophic reputational trouble.

You are looking at the real environment of internal communication. The percentages indicate the influence of a given executive level or source of information on individuals at their desk or workstation.

To keep your organization moving forward, there are seven key leadership communication function ratios.

Leadership language choices in difficult situations are often early indicators of the dysfunctional nature of leadership. In fact, their behaviors and language choices are often diagnostic of this dysfunction. Here are some examples to watch for.