Relationships and Trust
Trust is built long before the moment it is needed. These posts are about the relationships a leader depends on, the emotional bank accounts everyone around you is running, and why the people closest to us often get the worst of us.
10 articles
2026
Standing over a real foxhole in Europe. Bryan Yager on trust being built long before the moment it is needed.
7 min readShared history does not mean shared expectations. Bryan Yager closes his series where the cost is highest: at home.
7 min read2024
Back from a month off with a blank page and a wandering mind. Bryan Yager on friendship, melancholy, and gratitude at once.
7 min readBryan Yager on the cost of habitual people-pleasing, and the approval that for many people never actually arrives.
6 min read2018
Written at 35,000 feet over Nebraska. Bryan Yager on trust running both directions between a leader and a team.
6 min readSome people fill a room and some drain it. Bryan Yager asks which one you are, and what specifically makes the difference.
4 min readEveryone runs an emotional bank account. Bryan Yager on noticing who around you is overdrawn, and making a deposit.
3 min readBryan has spent more than 45 years developing leaders, in Boise and across the country. If this is the thinking you want in the room, he works with organizations on Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team, and the same thinking runs through his book, How to Transition Into Leadership.