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Leading People

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Ted Lasso

BELIEVE

How do you build a team people want to belong to?

You'll be able to:

  • Build psychological safety on high-performing teams.
  • Navigate conflict and accountability with empathy.
  • Design team rituals that reinforce shared purpose.

You'll leave with: My Team Culture Experiment

No need to have seen it first.

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The Office

World's Best Boss?

What changes when you become responsible for people who used to be your peers?

You'll be able to:

  • Make the shift from doing the work to being responsible for people — including former peers — explicit rather than silent.
  • Give corrective and affirming feedback that is specific, observable, and tied to a clear expectation.
  • Diagnose a persistent performance problem before responding, and follow a fair, defensible process.

You'll leave with: My First Conversation

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Shrinking

Don't Fix It for Them

How do you help someone without taking their problem away from them?

You'll be able to:

  • Notice the moment you take over someone's problem, and stay in the conversation instead.
  • Ask short, open questions that build another person's judgment rather than deliver your answer.
  • Choose deliberately between coaching, directing and referring — and say which one you are doing.

You'll leave with: My Coaching Redo

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The Bear

Every Second Counts

Is your team's problem the people, or the way the work is built?

You'll be able to:

  • Diagnose whether a recurring team failure is a systems problem or a behavior problem before responding.
  • Build accountability and psychological safety together so problems surface while they are still small.
  • Make the real capacity choice — what stops — instead of relying on heroics and burnout.

You'll leave with: My Operating Picture

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Conversations & Influence

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A Few Good Men or Hacks

Saying the Hard Thing

How do you say what needs to be said when staying silent has a cost — but so does speaking up?

You'll be able to:

  • Prepare a difficult conversation by separating what you observed from what you concluded, and naming a purpose you could say out loud.
  • Say the hard thing clearly and responsibly — specific about behavior and impact, without attacking the person or blurring the issue.
  • Listen in a way that could change your own understanding, rather than waiting to deliver the rest of your message.

You'll leave with: My Conversation Plan

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The Diplomat

Quiet Channels

How do you move change when you don't control the people whose cooperation you need?

You'll be able to:

  • Map who actually matters to a change — influence, interest, and the commitment you truly need.
  • Treat resistance as information about readiness, interests and implementation — not obstruction.
  • Brief senior leaders, absorb shifting priorities, and distribute credit while advocating a course.

You'll leave with: My Change Map

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Parks and Recreation

Win the Room

How do you make a case that moves skeptical people, especially in a public room, without steamrolling them or losing your integrity?

You'll be able to:

  • Identify what a skeptical audience actually cares about and what level of say they expect.
  • Frame a proposal around the audience's values and interests, with credibility and honest trade-offs.
  • Run or join a tense meeting so concerns are heard, honest answers are given and trust survives.

You'll leave with: My Persuasion Plan

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Chernobyl

The Cost of a Comfortable Answer

Why does accurate bad news so often fail to reach the people who need it, and what can both the person raising it and the leader receiving it do differently?

You'll be able to:

  • Identify where accurate bad news is being softened, delayed or normalized in an institution.
  • Raise a serious concern upward with evidence, risk framing, a specific ask and the right channel.
  • Respond to unwelcome information in ways that make the next report more likely, not less.

You'll leave with: My Early Warning Plan

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Judgment Under Pressure

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The Pitt

When the Answer Isn't Clear

How do you decide well when time is short, information is incomplete and no option is certain?

You'll be able to:

  • Separate observation, inference, and assumption under pressure.
  • Make priorities, trade-offs, and reversibility visible.
  • Raise or receive a concern without overstating certainty.

You'll leave with: My Judgment Check

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The West Wing

In the Room

How do leaders make sound, defensible decisions when information is incomplete, advice conflicts, and every available choice carries a cost?

You'll be able to:

  • Name the values a decision must protect before weighing options, and recognize when a personal stake compromises judgment.
  • Structure advice so that disagreement and bad news reach the decision-maker before the decision, not after.
  • Make and own a decision with incomplete information, separating process quality from outcome quality and noticing emotional influence.

You'll leave with: Decision Brief

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Apollo 13

Work the Problem

When something goes badly wrong and the clock is running, how does a team organize itself to make good decisions with what it actually has?

You'll be able to:

  • Distinguish a crisis from a bad day and stand up a clear response structure in the first minutes.
  • Name who decides, who advises and how expertise reaches the decision-maker, before the crisis starts.
  • Keep one clear channel to the people doing the work and communicate accurately to many audiences, including what isn't known.

You'll leave with: Crisis Playbook Card

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Moneyball

The Right Question

How do you use data to see what experience alone misses, without letting the numbers mislead you or dismissing the people whose judgment they challenge?

You'll be able to:

  • Reframe a decision so that data answers the question that actually matters, not the one that's easiest to measure.
  • Use data and expertise together, with each checking the other, rather than letting either dismiss the other.
  • Recognize when small samples, missing information, gamed metrics or selective success stories are distorting a conclusion.

You'll leave with: My Evidence Plan

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Culture, Change & AI

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Abbott Elementary

Start Where You Are

How do you make real improvements when you have little money, no formal authority and colleagues who have seen plenty of good ideas fail?

You'll be able to:

  • Turn a big frustration into a small, concrete change that people can see and that teaches you what the bigger change needs.
  • Treat skeptical, experienced colleagues as sources of knowledge and allies rather than obstacles to work around.
  • Find the resources, partners and routes already available, and raise the idea with the right people in the right way.

You'll leave with: A plan for one small win, or a clearer insight into how you lead change.

No need to have seen it first.

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Severance

Who Gets to Decide?

How can organizations balance coordination, accountability, and efficiency with autonomy, voice, and meaningful choice?

You'll be able to:

  • Distinguish nominal agreement from informed and meaningful choice.
  • Evaluate organizational incentives, voice, and silence.
  • Design and test one proportionate change to a real workplace practice.

You'll leave with: Autonomy Audit

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Iron Man or The Devil Wears Prada

Working With AI

What should you hand to AI — and what should remain yours?

You'll be able to:

  • Work with AI iteratively, adding context and challenging output, rather than handing work over in one shot.
  • Verify AI output in proportion to what is at stake, treating fluency as no evidence of accuracy.
  • Distinguish what a tool can produce from what the professional must decide and remains responsible for.

You'll leave with: My AI Working Agreement

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Supporting Students

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The Breakfast Club

Beyond the Label

What do the labels we give students hide, and how do you see the person behind them while still holding them to high standards?

You'll be able to:

  • Look past a label or a behavior, and learn how the student understands their own experience, without assuming or diagnosing.
  • Take specific, small actions that show a student they've been noticed and belong.
  • Keep expectations high and hold students accountable while making clear you believe they can meet them.

You'll leave with: A plan for seeing one student differently, or a clearer insight into the labels you reach for.

No need to have seen it first.

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Cobra Kai

The Mentor Effect

How does the way you mentor someone shape who they become, including in ways you never intended?

You'll be able to:

  • Recognize what students learn from watching you, including your habits, values and unfinished business, not just from what you teach.
  • Hold students to a real challenge while giving the support that makes it possible to meet.
  • Help students build confidence and motivation that belong to them, not to the mentor.

You'll leave with: Your own mentoring approach, or a clearer insight into the mentors who shaped you.

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CODA

Potential Isn't Enough

What does a student need, beyond talent, to reach their potential, especially when their responsibilities pull them in another direction?

You'll be able to:

  • Recognize the obligations, pressures and guilt that shape a student's choices, especially those that don't show up at school.
  • Actively tell students what you see in them, and help them imagine a future they might not have considered, without imposing it.
  • Adapt support to a student's real life, flexing structures but not standards, and look for ways the student doesn't have to choose between family and future.

You'll leave with: A support strategy for one student, or a clearer insight into what students carry.

No need to have seen it first.