Designing a high-performing comms team at Rio Tinto: An Interview with Jess Lonsdale - Kademy - chunk 22

not to underestimate the ‘softer’ leadership skills. Taking time to listen, learn and connect with your team is fundamental to achieving high performance. Finally, remember to celebrate successes and have fun! As a comms team, we work incredibly hard to be first-class strategic advisors and execute seamlessly as one team. Our structure needs to enable our ways of working while allowing us to celebrate success and have fun along the way. I think of our team as a pod of dolphins – calm, focused, playful and working effortlessly together.