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You Can’t Handle the Shame! Pt 2 – Group Identity
Confronting team dysfunction requires two ingredients: a healthy group identity and compassionate correction.

Brent Stromwall
Sep 26, 20241 min read
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Joy By Design
Part of community requires us to relate and experience joy. That means someone is glad to be with us. We show this through appreciation.

Brent Stromwall
Nov 20, 20222 min read
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Pay Attention
It takes an average of 15 minutes for the brain to reorient after a distraction. The cost of distraction adds up. Here's how to minimize it!

Brent Stromwall
Oct 3, 20223 min read
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The Cost of Winning
Emotional immaturity in a team is toxic for everyone in the room, and the business.

Brent Stromwall
Jan 20, 20224 min read
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Where are the Mature Leaders?
What we are seeing from our leaders reminds us of two children fighting over toys in the sandbox. Where are the mature leaders?

Brent Stromwall
Sep 14, 20214 min read
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Employee Joy Yields Employee Engagement
You and your employees and teams will perform better – at their best – only when you all are in joy. A joy-filled team is more effective...

Brent Stromwall
Jul 26, 20214 min read
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RARE Leadership Part 5 - Defining Joy in a Team
What if your employees liked working and being with you so much that they were willing to make sacrifices without incentive? What if they di

Brent Stromwall
Apr 18, 20213 min read
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The Ideal Team Has Joy-based Trust
The greatest role a leader of any team has is to create and nurture joy-based trust.

Brent Stromwall
Feb 15, 20214 min read
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Logical or Relational: The Anatomy of an Ideal Team
We were designed to process pain in a healthy way, but few of us are aware of this or have learned how.

Brent Stromwall
Nov 27, 20208 min read
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RARE Leadership, part 4 - Act Like Yourself
Mature people stay calm and relational regardless of intense emotions. They’re the people who are glad to be with you, and you are glad to

Brent Stromwall
Sep 23, 20204 min read
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RARE Leadership, part 3 - Relational Circuits
Leaders undermine their own success by allowing the problem to become bigger than the relationship.

Brent Stromwall
Sep 23, 20205 min read
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RARE Leadership, part 2 - Becoming Overwhelmed
When working in joy, people and teams will have their greatest impact.

Brent Stromwall
Sep 23, 20204 min read
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RARE Leadership, part 1 - Leadership vs Management
Managers manage things, activities, and tasks to do what is expected of them. ...Leaders lead a person or group of people.

Brent Stromwall
Sep 12, 20203 min read
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