352| Your Team Didn’t Disengage. They Withheld. Leadership Myth #4

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Your team is not disengaged. They are responding. And there is a difference that changes everything about where you look. Tami names the myth that keeps senior leaders investing in the wrong solutions — and reframes what is actually happening when the energy in the room goes flat, requests pile back up, and the people who started the year strong seem to have quietly shifted gears. This is not a conversation about employee motivation. It is a conversation about signal. And once you understand the difference, you cannot unsee it. What You'll Hear The experience most senior leaders are living but haven't been able to name What the Gallup State of the Global Workplace data actually reveals about why 80 percent of the workforce is not fully engaged A real story from client work — and the moment that proved this was never a disengagement problem Five things employees actually need, and why none of them are motivation What becomes possible when the signal changes Leadership Pattern to Notice The leaders who feel this most are the ones who have already tried the team-side solutions. They ran the surveys. They brought in the speaker. They launched the culture initiative.