How to Rebuild Trust with Your Staff After It’s Been Broken
A 90-minute live workshop for educational leaders who are navigating staff resistance, culture strain, difficult conversations, and the hard work of rebuilding trust after it has been damaged.
Tuesday, July 28
7:00 PM CST
Live on Zoom
Workshop Only: $49
Workshop + Implementation Suite: $139
When trust is broken, leadership gets heavier.
You can feel it.
The room gets quieter.
The side conversations get louder.
Staff members comply in public but resist in private.
Decisions take longer to land.
Simple communication starts requiring extra explanation.
You sense the hesitation, the distance, the guarded responses, the subtle pushback.
And even if no one says it out loud, you know something has shifted.
Trust has been damaged.
Now you are still responsible for leading the work, supporting staff, protecting culture, making decisions, and moving the school or organization forward.
But everything feels heavier because the relational foundation underneath the work has been strained.
This workshop is for that moment.
You cannot close achievement gaps while ignoring leadership gaps.
Educational leaders are constantly asked to close gaps.
Achievement gaps.
Opportunity gaps.
Equity gaps.
Instructional gaps.
Performance gaps.
Culture gaps.
But too often, the leadership gap underneath those outcomes goes unnamed.
When trust breaks between a leader and staff, it does not stay contained to one meeting, one decision, or one difficult conversation.
It affects culture.
It affects communication.
It affects ownership.
It affects morale.
It affects implementation.
It affects whether people believe the direction, not just whether they hear it.
If your staff does not trust your leadership, they may still follow instructions, but they will not fully bring their ownership, honesty, creativity, or commitment to the work.
That is the gap this workshop helps you begin to close.
This is not a theory session.
This is a practical leadership formation workshop for educational leaders who need language, structure, and next steps.
In How to Rebuild Trust with Your Staff After It’s Been Broken, Dr. Rhonda L. Simmons will help you identify where trust may have fractured, what leadership patterns may be keeping the rupture active, and how to begin rebuilding staff trust with clarity, steadiness, and authority.
This is not about overexplaining yourself.
It is not about performing humility.
It is not about trying to make everyone like you.
It is not about pretending the damage did not happen.
It is about learning how to lead the repair process without abandoning your leadership responsibility.
This workshop is for you if:
You are a principal, assistant principal, district leader, instructional leader, department leader, or education-facing leader.
You are carrying tension with your staff that has not fully been named.
You have made a hard decision and now feel the relational fallout.
You inherited a culture where trust was already damaged.
You are trying to lead people who are guarded, frustrated, passive, resistant, or exhausted.
You know staff trust matters, but you are not sure how to begin repairing it without making things worse.
You are tired of carrying the hidden emotional weight of leadership by yourself.
You want your team to grow, not just comply.
What you will learn:
During this 90-minute workshop, you will learn how to:
Name the trust gap
Identify where trust broke down and how it is showing up in staff behavior, communication, morale, and ownership.
Recognize what your leadership may be producing
Examine the difference between staff resistance, staff protection, staff confusion, and staff distrust.
Separate repair from approval-seeking
Learn why rebuilding trust does not mean giving away authority or trying to make everyone happy.
Prepare for difficult conversations
Develop language for acknowledging rupture, clarifying expectations, and reopening communication without overfunctioning.
Begin the repair process
Leave with a practical next step you can use with your team immediately.
You will leave with:
A clearer understanding of where trust has been damaged.
A framework for thinking through staff trust and leadership repair.
Language for beginning hard conversations.
A practical next step you can use with your staff.
A stronger sense of what your next level of educational leadership now requires from you.
Meet your facilitator
Dr. Rhonda L. Simmons
Dr. Rhonda L. Simmons is a retired public school principal, leadership formation advisor, executive consultant, speaker, author, and founder of Rhonda L. Simmons LLC.
She holds a doctorate in Educational Leadership from Liberty University and has spent decades forming leaders across educational, organizational, nonprofit, entrepreneurial, and leadership development environments.
Her work centers on helping high-capacity leaders close the gap between who they are today and who their next level requires them to become.
Dr. Simmons is the author of Is My Team Growing Because I Lead Them?, a leadership book that challenges leaders to examine whether their leadership is producing growth, ownership, clarity, and capacity in the people they lead.
Through her Leadership Authority Architecture™ framework, Dr. Simmons helps leaders examine authority, clarity, capacity, people-development, presence, decision-making, and alignment so they can lead in ways that help people grow.
Workshop Details
Title: How to Rebuild Trust with Your Staff After It’s Been Broken
Series: Close the Educational Leadership Gap™ Workshop Series
Date: Tuesday, July 28
Time: 7:00 PM CST
Location: Live on Zoom
Length: 90 minutes
Audience: Educational leaders, school leaders, district leaders, instructional leaders, and education-facing leaders
Registration Options
Workshop Only
$49
Includes live access to the 90-minute workshop.
You will receive:
Live Zoom workshop access
Practical teaching and reflection
Trust-repair framework
Action steps you can begin using with your staff
Workshop + Implementation Suite
$139
This option includes your workshop registration plus digital access to the Close the Leadership Gap™ Implementation Suite for Educational Leaders.
The Implementation Suite includes:
7-day access to the Workshop replay
Digital copy of Is My Team Growing Because I Lead Them?
5-part video training library connected to the book
Grow From Here™: Educational Leadership Implementation Guide
The Implementation Suite is designed to help you continue the work after the workshop and apply the leadership formation principles to your team, culture, communication, and staff growth.
Important note about the Implementation Suite
The Close the Leadership Gap™ Implementation Suite for Educational Leaders is licensed for individual professional use by one educational leader.
Campus-wide, department-wide, district-wide, team facilitation, staff training, or train-the-trainer use requires a separate institutional license.
If your school, district, department, or organization is interested in licensing this resource for broader use, please contact us.
Why this matters now
Broken trust does not repair itself.
Avoided conversations become culture.
Unspoken frustration becomes resistance.
Unclear expectations become repeated conflict.
And when educational leaders keep carrying the emotional weight of unresolved trust issues alone, the entire organization feels it.
But repair is possible.
Not through performance.
Not through pressure.
Not through pretending.
Repair begins when leaders have the courage, clarity, and structure to name what has happened and lead the next right conversation.
That is what this workshop will help you begin.
Register now
If trust has been broken, avoidance will not rebuild it.
And if you are still responsible for leading the work, you need more than pressure. You need language, clarity, and a path forward.
Join Dr. Rhonda L. Simmons for the first workshop in the Close the Educational Leadership Gap™ Workshop Series.
How to Rebuild Trust with Your Staff After It’s Been Broken
Tuesday, July 28 at 7:00 PM CST on Zoom (Please adjust for your time zone.)
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