Hello, my friends, and welcome to a special episode of Negotiate Anything Premium. I'm

Kwame Christian, of course, and I'm here to answer a great question from one of our premium

subscribers named Genevieve. So shout out to Genevieve for being the first person to ask a question

in Negotiate Anything Premium. And this one is so good. I'm really excited to get into it.

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trial of Negotiate Anything Premium. Link in the description of this episode. And let's jump

into it first by addressing the question.

So here's the question.

I've observed team dynamics in the past where subordinates are pushing back on their leader,

and it left me perplexed as to what might be behind this.

Leaders want fearless advice, but also expect faithful implementation.

When the faithful implementation side is missing, it unbalances

team function. Clearly, conflict is at play here. Do you have any insight into what might be the

dynamic at the root of this and what techniques could be used to restore a healthy dynamic?

Incredible question. And there's so many different ways for us to address this.

But for me, let's go ahead and go back to my career as a lawyer. And one of the key skills of

being a lawyer is issue spotting. Before we get into diagnosing the problem, we have to get a

really clear understanding of what the problem is here.

So there are a couple of things that are coming to mind.

First, when we think about the team, we have the people who are executing the plan and let's say the

people who are creating the plan. Hopefully the plan is co-created to a certain extent, but the people who are executing the plan, we would call those the team members, the people who are creating the plan, let's call those the leaders. But in order for the leaders to be effective in the creation of the plan, we have to be able to solicit the feedback from the people who are on the team because they are the

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