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# Tenet Round-up: The Belonging Issue 📰
- URL: https://www.oddballleadership.com/tenet-round-up-the-belonging-issue/
- Published: 2026-06-01T13:03:34.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-06T23:56:22.000Z
- Description: A round-up of content about the most important value of Oddball Leadership.
- Author: Bri Gerzevske
- Tags: belonging, psychological safety, oddball leadership, digest

[***Oddball Leadership***](https://www.oddballleadership.com/values/) *is marked by four core values: belonging, gratitude, curiosity, and joy. Here's a round-up of past posts based on each value. And — if you're ready to level up your leadership skills — there are some open-ended questions at the end of the post for you to ponder this week!*

**First up: Belonging.* The value from where everything else grows. After all, a team that can't exist authentically can't access gratitude, curiosity, or joy. They're too busy bracing for impact.*

*Let's dig in. 👇🏻*

## THE BELONGING READING LIST

1. [**Seen. Heard. Valued.**](https://www.oddballleadership.com/seen-heard-valued/) What ensuring psychological safety *actually* requires of you as a leader, and why cookie-cutter approaches to team culture consistently fall flat.
2. [**The Leadership Skill We Don't Measure.**](https://www.oddballleadership.com/the-leadership-skill-we-dont-measure/) A practice more challenging than active listening — active *presence* — can only take root in a place that feels psychologically safe.
3. [**Workplace Grace.**](https://www.oddballleadership.com/workplace-grace/) This one gets into the mechanics: how you handle conflict, correction, and the very human mess of working alongside people without blowing up the safety you've worked to build.
4. [**"I'm Sorry."**](https://www.oddballleadership.com/im-sorry/) What a real apology looks and sounds like — and why leaning into your mistakes instead of deflecting them is one of the most belonging-forward things you can do.

## QUESTIONS TO SIT WITH THIS WEEK

Before you go back to your daily routine, try one of these on for size:

  - **When have you felt the most genuine sense of belonging at work — and what did the leader or culture do (or not do) to make that possible?**
  - **If someone on your team were asked right now whether they feel psychologically safe, what do you think they'd say? What's your evidence?**
  - **Where in your own leadership — or in the culture around you — do you see belonging treated as a platitude instead of a practice? What can you do to influence more intentional belonging?**

If you have any thoughts about these questions, or would like to share your answers, I think it would be awesome to hear from you. Just drop me a line at [bri@oddballleadership.com](mailto:bri@oddballleadership.com).

> Next week? Gratitude.

And yes, it goes way beyond the pizza party. 🍕

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