Susan DrummCEO Advisor & Executive Coach | Leadership Change Agent

Your Vibe Sets the Team’s Drive

20 May 2025 · 1 min

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Susan Drumm delivers a concise leadership message: a leader's emotional energy "enters the room before you do" and sets the team's emotional state. She links this to neuroscience (we rapidly read emotional cues) and offers a practical prompt for leaders to self-check before meetings—"what forecast am I bringing?"—arguing that shifting your personal energy shifts team behavior and atmosphere.

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If you lead a team, you're going to want to listen to this. Your energy enters the room before you do, and whether you realize it or not, you're bringing the weather. Walk in anxious, the whole room tightens up. Walking grounded, people breathe easier. That's not just intuition. That's neuroscience. We're wired to read and react to emotional cues fast. And when you're the leader, your state becomes the team state. So before the meeting, ask, what forecast am I bringing? Storm clouds, calm skies. You don't just set the vision, you set the temperature. So shift your energy and you shift everything.