🌟 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 share about resetting your team’s rhythm for the season ahead. If you want to see the complete teaching and take part in upcoming sessions, consider upgrading to join us live next month.

August is a tale of two months. The first half feels like summer, but at some point in the month (maybe it already has), your end-of-year mode kicks in. You’re already three to six months ahead in your head, calculating what has to happen before December. Your team is going to need some time to catch up.

Recognize your team is still in gear-shifting mode and set your expectations for your team and yourself accordingly. Use August as a primer so everyone can ease into the faster pace that September will inevitably bring.

And as that pace picks up, so will the weight of what’s on your plate. This month’s Q&A brought up a few such challenges, including:

* Redirecting decisions and knowledge during a leadership transition, without waiting for a single handover meeting to cover it all

* Naming a dip in team readiness after a departure as normal, not a personal failing

* Framing covering work as a temporary hold from the start, so reintegration feels like a handoff instead of a negotiation

* Auditing what’s actually needed before recalibrating a role after someone returns from extended leave

* Weighing loyalty to one against team and organizational responsibility

* Building functional trust with a neurodivergent teammate without abandoning team-wide expectations

Our next Leadership Strategy Session will be on Wednesday, September 9, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. PDT.

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