Your Team Blames You for Chaos You Didn't Create. Now What? Ep 243 The Coaching Table by HLP

You're trying to build structure for your team, but the people above you keep blowing it up. Curveballs land without warning. Your boss goes around you and straight to your people. And somehow, your team still blames you for the mess. Sound familiar? This episode of The Coaching Table on the Humanergy Leadership Podcast tackles a real scenario submitted by a mid-level leader caught between a reactive C-suite and a team that wants structure. Our scenarios come from real leaders, either submitted directly or found in the wild on public forums. Two experienced coaches, David Wheatley and Lance Satterthwaite, work it in real time with no prep and no script. What comes out of it is a coaching conversation that hits on things most leaders in this spot haven't thought through yet: the conversations you might be avoiding with your boss, whether your expectations are actually calibrated to reality, and the hard question of organizational fit when alignment just isn't happening. You'll hear the coaches use frameworks like CIMA (Control, Influence, Mitigate, Accept) and Green Path/Red Path to help this leader stop spinning and start thinking clearly about what they can actually do. Frameworks and tools mentioned in this episode are available at humanergy.com. For more on CIMA, check out Episode 106 of the Humanergy Leadership Podcast. Got a leadership situation you'd like us to work through? Submit it at humanergy.com on the podcast page. We'll keep it anonymous and keep it real.