🌟 While we no longer record the Q&A discussions during our Leadership Strategy Sessions, we continue to record the opening teaching. Enjoy a special preview of what we shared about reading your team's energy before summer makes everything more complicated. If you want to see the complete teaching and take part in upcoming sessions, consider upgrading to join us live next month.
Your team's capacity is already shifting. The question is whether your expectations are shifting with it.
The back half of May is full of personal projects that don't get counted as projects. School schedules changing, summer plans getting made, family logistics kicking in. All of that sits on top of the work. And when leaders keep expecting a level of output that no longer matches what their team actually has to give, that mismatch is where the anxiety lives.
This month we focused on getting ahead of that gap: getting honest about what your team's energy actually looks like between now and September, communicating your expectations clearly, and not waiting until something drops to have the conversation.
This month's Q&A also covered:
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Assessing your team's summer operational tempo and communicating expectations before the mismatch creates anxiety
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Bridging the gap between monthly goals and daily focus blocks when priorities compete for your attention within a single work session
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Leading during a difficult team transition, with a reminder that tension is not necessarily conflict and discomfort is not necessarily harm
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Holding the line on team communication patterns when people default to triangulating through you instead of talking directly to each other
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Sequencing fractional roles in a resource-constrained organization when no single hire can cover everything you need
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Getting ahead of the gap between where you're focused and where your team is, and how to share strategic intent in small enough doses that it lands as direction rather than distraction
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Developing a team member who is new to entrepreneurial goal-setting culture, and how to give people something concrete to solve for
From focus blocks to fractional hiring to leading through team tension, this session covered a lot of ground. Provide the clarity, align your team, be clear about who's doing what, and make your expectations known before the slip and slide season gets away from you. If you want to be part of these conversations live, consider joining us as a paid subscriber.
Our next Leadership Strategy Session will be on Wednesday, June 3, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. PDT.
Premium subscribers can watch the full opening teaching and access all related resources shared during the call. 👇🏽
