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If You Can’t Read Your Team, You’re Not Leading It - Part Two
Episode 365
Friday, 24 April, 2026
Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well!Most leaders now know the problem:They’re not actually reading their teams.But awareness alone doesn’t fix anything.In Part 2, Rich and Maikel move past the blind spot—and get into what actually separates leaders who guess from leaders who truly see.Because the truth is, leaders don’t fail to read their teams by accident.They fail for very specific, predictable reasons:They don’t know their people.They think they know them—but don’t.They avoid the hard conversations.They rely on data instead of dialogue.Or worse… they’re afraid of what they might uncover.And that’s where leadership either levels up—or breaks down.In this second part of the series, Rich and Maikel unpack the real barriers that keep leaders disconnected from their teams—and more importantly, the practical, no-excuses actions you can take immediately to fix it. This isn’t theory. This is what you can start doing Monday morning:How to build real insight into your people in minutes—not months. How to create conversations that unlock truth instead of surface-level updates. How to develop the core leadership “superpowers” that drive trust, retention, and performance. And how to eliminate the costly leadership blind spots before they turn into turnover, disengagement, and culture breakdown.Because when you truly learn to read your team:Engagement rises.Trust deepens.Performance multiplies.And leadership stops feeling like guesswork.Miss this—and you’ll keep leading in the dark.Master it—and you become the kind of leader people don’t leave.Join Rich and Maikel for Part 2 of this powerful series on Mainline Executive Coaching ACT—where leadership gets real, practical, and immediately actionable. Leaders, Lead Well!Thank you to all of our listeners in over 140 countries and 1,500 cities worldwide, we greatly appreciate your support! We truly hope that what we bring to our listeners will improve your ability as leaders.Mainline Executive Coaching ACT has been recognized by FeedSpot as one of the top Executive Coaching Podcast in the world based on thousands of podcasts on the web and ranked by traffic, social media, followers & freshness.https://blog.feedspot.com/executive_coaching_podcasts/John Mattone Global: https://johnmattone.com/Rich Baron:rbaron@richbaronexecutivecoaching.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/rich-baron/rich@johnmattone.comMaikel Bailey:mbailey@intelligentleadershipec.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/maikelbailey/https://maikelbailey.com/





