782: How to Help a Team Get Unstuck, with Gustavo Razzetti
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Gustavo Razzetti: Forward Talk
Gustavo Razzetti is a culture change instigator, speaker, and CEO of Fearless Culture, a culture design consultancy. He helps leaders build teams that talk about what matters—even when it’s uncomfortable–through his books and tools, including the Culture Design Canvas. He is the author of Forward Talk: The Bold New Method for Getting Teams Unstuck (Amazon, Bookshop)*.
The beauty of a team is that we can get so much more done with collaboration. It also means that sometimes we surrender our responsibility to others. In this conversation, Gustavo and I explore what to do when a team gets stuck.
Key Points
- Conversations are the foundation of collaboration. Without them, teams quickly build conversational debt.
- We don’t stay silent because we’re scared. Rather, we stay quiet because we surrender our responsibility to others.
- Many of us overestimate our courage. We believe that we’ll say something, but studies show that often we do not.
- Forward Talk accomplishes two things: (1) addresses the real issue and (2) focuses on the future.
- See information as an opportunity instead of an obstacle. Courage can begin with admitting what you don’t know.
- Perspective is the choice to share your views instead of surrendering your judgment to social pressure.
- Responsibility is a commitment to understand the systemic issues instead of entering into blame.
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- What Really Matters for Team Success, with Colin Fisher (episode 748)
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| 0:00.0 | The beauty of a team is how much more you can get done with collaboration. It also means that |
| 0:07.1 | sometimes we surrender our responsibility to others. In this episode, what to do when a team gets stuck. |
| 0:15.7 | This is Coaching for Leaders, Episode 782. |
| 0:20.0 | Produced by Innovate Learning, maximizing human potential. |
| 0:28.7 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. |
| 0:31.8 | This is Coaching for Leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac. |
| 0:36.3 | Leaders aren't born. |
| 0:37.5 | They're made. And this weekly show helps leaders thrive at Key and Fulter. And I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac. Leaders aren't born. |
| 0:38.5 | They're made. |
| 0:42.3 | And this weekly show helps leaders thrive at key inflection points. |
| 0:53.0 | One of the biggest inflection points that so many of us face in our leadership inside of organizations is how do we help a team to move forward? |
| 0:55.9 | And specifically, how to help a team get unstuck. There's lots of reasons that teams get stuck. And a big piece that tends to get in our way is communication |
| 1:02.6 | and conversation or the lack thereof. Today, a conversation about how we can do a better job |
| 1:08.8 | at helping teams get unstuck by looking at some of the |
| 1:12.2 | conversations that we can influence and inspire inside of our organizations. And I'm so glad to |
| 1:18.1 | welcome back an expert who's been on the show before, who's done so much work on this will help |
| 1:21.7 | us to really think about how we can get our teams unstuck. I'm pleased to welcome back |
| 1:26.7 | Gustavo Rosetti. He is a culture change |
| 1:29.3 | instigator, speaker, and CEO of Fearless Culture, a Culture Design Consultancy. He helps |
| 1:35.3 | leaders build teams that talk about what matters, even when it's uncomfortable through his |
| 1:40.3 | books and tools, including the Culture Design Canvas, which we've featured on the show |
| 1:44.9 | previously. He is the author of Forward Talk, the bold new method for getting teams unstuck. |
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