Every team has people with the spark of leadership. You may or may not have the title, but you have the will to make a difference. Often something holds you back. We’re here to break those barriers to unleash your full potential.
This episode is for the leader whose team meetings have quietly become something people endure, not something people look forward to. Maggie Redling and Coleman Williams have a blunt answer for why that happens, and it starts with leaders who don’t actually talk to their teams.
In this conversation, Lee sits down with Maggie and Coleman, co-founders of Wrestling with Talent. The two met years ago at a startup, back when wearing five job titles at once was just Tuesday. Now based in Charlotte, North Carolina, they work with leaders across the East Coast and beyond to build the kind of team meetings people actually want to attend. They dig into why so many leaders never build a real rhythm with their people, and what happens in the gap between individual contributors and the leaders above their manager.
Listen and gain practical insights on how to improve your team meetings, foster engagement, and lead with authenticity. Discover strategies to make meetings more effective, inclusive, and human-centered.
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Key Takeaways:
- Doing your homework on the people that YOU are leading can be the difference between a message that cascades cleanly and one that gets lost in translation.
- Knowing someone’s name might be the cheapest retention tool in the building.
- There’s a gap that opens the moment a leader stops being one layer away from their team, and most leaders never notice it until it costs them someone.
- Rage and Confetti gives teams a structured way to vent and celebrate without either one taking over the meeting.
- The best team meetings flex to match how the team communicates instead of following one template for everyone.