set the tone
SET the TOHN
sɛt ðə toʊnListen
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establish the character, culture, and standards of behaviour for an organisation, team, or situation through one's own conduct and the norms one enforces; the quality of any working environment is largely determined by the tone set by those in authority, who signal through their behaviour and responses what is valued, what is tolerated, and what is unacceptable; setting the tone requires consistency between private behaviour and public pronouncement, because people quickly detect and discount the gap
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