Coaching Real Leaders Ask Muriel Anything: Productivity, Layoffs, and Visibility
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May 11, 2026 Listeners get rapid-fire leadership advice on breaking rigid team silos and pacing cultural change. The conversation covers leading through layoffs and communicating team morale upward. Practical tactics for balancing productivity with people development are offered. The hosts also explore patterns behind impulse quitting and using learning as a compass for career decisions.
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Start Culture Change By Modeling Collaborative Behavior
- Culture change can't be mandated; it emerges from collective behaviors tied to status and credibility.
- Muriel Wilkins advises first assess why silos exist, whether people want change, then model collaborative behaviors to create positive experiences.
Build Status Before Pushing Organizationwide Change
- Build status through credibility, connection, and trust before trying to change the broader organization.
- Muriel Wilkins recommends start with your team, gain status, then use that currency to influence beyond your direct reports.
Grief Drives Defensive Behavior After Layoffs
- After layoffs and a strategic pivot teams grieve and may operate from 'play not to lose' fear rather than possibility.
- Muriel Wilkins says decouple survival anxiety from the strategy and acknowledge grief before asking people to execute.
