Chrysta Wilson | Pressure-Proofing Teams

Change, uncertainty, layoffs, budget cuts, downsizing. Name any one of them and you can watch the temperature in a team rise.

Here is what most leaders miss. It is not the change itself that breaks collaboration. It is that we do not all have the emotional literacy to describe how something is affecting us. So the stress has nowhere to go, and it leaks sideways.

When we are stressed, we work from the amygdala. It is reactive. In those seasons it becomes genuinely hard for people to be their highest self. Actively listening. Thinking before speaking. Being mindful of the impact of their words and actions.

That is why, when I train teams on conflict, I am not trying to make conflict disappear. I am trying to build conflict resilience. How do you have the hard conversation, sit in the tension, and still be in good relationship on the other side? So that you can bounce back from it.

Pressure does not have to cost you your team.

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