You're standing atop a waterfall with someone who's never run one before. Do you give them every single detail about the entire run—every rock, every current, every decision point? Or do you give them three clear steps they can actually hold onto? One approach gets followed. The other leaves people frozen, overwhelmed, staring at you with wide eyes.

In this episode from Kendall's "What the Wellness Center?!" series, she welcomes Paul Kuthe of Tributary Coaching—a former professional kayaker and adventure guide turned business coach—who translates hard-won wilderness lessons into team leadership wisdom. As Paul explains about overwhelming a student with information: "They'd be still sitting right behind that first rock... trying to take in all of the steps and all of the things to accomplish this goal all at once."

The conversation covers uniting teams behind both straightforward and controversial goals, the three most common mistakes leaders make with goal-setting, and Paul's powerful "Goal Story Formula"—an expanded SMARTER framework that makes goals exciting, narrative, and shareable. He also shares a refreshingly simple mission statement formula: "We will accomplish X by [timeframe] because [reason]."

If your team goals tend to get set, forgotten, and quietly abandoned, this episode offers both the diagnosis and the fix.

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