The Secure Leader

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Approximately 70% of people quit their jobs because of poor managers. Kylie Bell finds that our leadership style may be impacted by our earliest relationships, and how our 'attachment styles' evolv...

Approximately 70% of people quit their jobs because of poor managers. Kylie Bell finds that our leadership style may be impacted by our earliest relationships, and how our 'attachment styles' evolved as we were growing up. Attachment theory was first developed by John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth. There are four primary attachment styles: Anxious, Avoidant, Disorganized, and Secure. Kylie provides Eve Ash with an example of an anxious general manager in a consulting firm, who did not trust his branch managers. The result was that these branch managers stopped making decisions. An avoidant CEO was fearful of giving feedback with the result that his teams were lacking direction and in conflict. Kylie advocates secure behaviors as a means of improving safety and security, developing confidence, and building relationships, which results in less conflict and turnover.

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