The Bounce-Back Trap: Why Your Team is Not Resilient

Hosted by Paul Thallner

In this video

What you'll learn

Diagnose the "Gap-Closing" Cycle:

Identify "zombie problems" that keep coming back—and why your current problem-solving methods are feeding them.

Audit Your "Mechanical" Risks:

Learn why treating your team like a machine guarantees fragility—and how to spot the cracks before they break.

Apply the "Grow Through" Shift:

Walk away with a specific script to shift your team’s focus from "returning to normal" to "building the new normal".

Why this topic matters

Most leaders define resilience as "bouncing back" to how things were. But in a complex world, "normal" is often what broke you in the first place. Trying to snap back keeps you trapped in an exhausting "Gap-Closing Cycle"—solving problems forever. True resilience is earned. Stop fixing your team and start evolving them.

You'll learn from

Paul Thallner

High Peaks Group, Founder & CEO

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.

Previously at

Daggerwing Group
Great Place to Work US
Teleos Leadership
FUSE
Stride
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