Set Up Your Team to Make Decisions Without You

Hosted by Paul Thallner

Thu, Mar 5, 2026

5:30 PM UTC (30 minutes)

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Elevating Conditions for Team Performance
Paul Thallner
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What you'll learn

Test if your team’s purpose guides decisions

Run a simple diagnostic to see if your team’s purpose actually directs priorities and tradeoffs.

Spot why decisions keep defaulting to you

Identify the structural signal that’s making you the decision hub instead of the team.

Choose the next step to reduce decision overload

Leave with one clear action to strengthen your team’s setup and prevent decisions routing upward.

Why this topic matters

When a team’s purpose isn’t clear enough to guide decisions, it all defaults to the leader. That slows execution, creates extra meetings, and compounds leader overload. This session shows how to quickly test whether your team’s setup is helping or quietly making you the decision hub — and what to do about it.

You'll learn from

Paul Thallner

Certified Team Effectiveness Expert (ex-Great Place to Work)

Paul Thallner has spent over 25 years working inside high-pressure organizations where leaders are expected to deliver results without full control of the system. As a management consultant and executive coach, he has often worked in the space between senior leaders and teams -- translating incomplete strategies into something people could actually act on, and absorbing the ambiguity so the system could function. Through that work, he saw how capable, conscientious leaders quietly burn out not because they’re weak, but because they’re carrying stress the system never learned to hold. Paul is the author of Reinventing Resilience (Amazon #1 New Release), which reframes resilience as the ability to grow through challenges rather than simply bounce back from it. His work focuses on helping leaders make grounded decisions under uncertainty without becoming the buffer.

Developed teams at companies like

Jay Peak Resort
Hackensack Meridian
Takeda
Carhartt
Kaiser Permanente

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