A short monologue (YouTube video) by Katie McManus about signs you’re in an unproductive group dynamic. The speaker emphasizes the need for clear leadership or guidance in groups—otherwise members can spin in place without progress—and shares personal experience organizing business groups that lacked direction. The speaker urges calling out ineffective patterns and ensuring someone shows the next actionable step.
There's nothing wrong with having a community of people who are really pushing themselves to do the brave thing. They're holding each other accountable, and they're figuring it out together. The key here is that someone needs to be showing everyone what they need to do. Now. It could be that each and every individual in this group has their own respective coach or consultant who's helping them build their business. It could be that one person in the group is just being a very generous friend and kind of guiding everyone along. Here's what I did. They're kind of mentoring everyone, but without that key piece, without someone showing you what the next step is, you're literally all just there, like hamsters in a hamster wheel, just spinning around, around, around, around and not going anywhere. I was so guilty of this. When I first started my business and I was the ringleader, I organized these groups, and they went nowhere so fast because none of us knew what we were doing. And the bravest thing you can do in that scenario is call bullshit on what you're doing.