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Leadership coach Liz Murray explaining why leaders avoid hard conversations and the cost to team performance and culture

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Most leaders I work with are not conflict-averse.

They're clarity-averse.

They don't avoid people. They avoid the moment. The specific, direct, this-is-what-I-need-from-you moment that feels too exposing, too risky, or simply too hard to get right.

And so instead of saying the thing clearly, they...

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Most leaders don’t realise when they’ve stopped leading and started controlling.

It rarely begins with ego.

Usually, it starts with pressure.

Deadlines.
Underperformance.
Things slipping through the cracks.
A growing sense that if you don’t step in, things won’t get done properly.

So you step in...

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I remember sitting in a meeting, completely absorbed in the fine details of a problem.
The more I focused on what was going wrong, the heavier the room felt.

My team looked to me for clarity, but instead of lifting them up, I was pulling them into my overwhelm.

At the time, I thought this was lea...

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