Susan DrummCEO Advisor & Executive Coach | Leadership Change Agent

Pressure Reveals the Pattern. Here’s How to Break It #shorts

25 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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A short spoken guidance from Susan Drumm describing how leaders and team members each default to protection patterns under stress. These fallback behaviors emerge under pressure, causing predictable friction and loops in team interactions; Drumm asserts the patterns are shiftable rather than random or purely personality-driven.

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Every leader has a default way of showing up under stress, a protection pattern, a fallback move. And your team members, well, they have theirs, too. And these patterns don't usually come out when things are calm. They show up when there's pressure or uncertainty or risk. And that's when the friction starts. You might find yourself wondering, well, who? Why does this always happen with this person? Or why do they shut down when I ask direct questions? It's not random, and it's not about personality. It's a loop between patterns, and you can shift it.