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When Preparing for a Meeting is NOT Helpful with Sarah Olivieri [Episode 456]
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Episode Description
Arriving at a team meeting with a solution already worked out can feel like you're helping everyone get ahead. When the work needs several people's perspectives, leaving the solution open gives the team a chance to develop something together that none of them could have created alone.
Sarah discusses when preparing a solution before a meeting can get in the way of collaboration, drawing on her experience helping teams create something new together.
In This Episode, You’ll Learn
What to consider before working out a solution ahead of a meeting
Why doing extra work can feel like the right thing to do
What your approach to meeting preparation might be teaching your team
How to make more room for leadership across your organization
What Sarah's one-sentence definition of leadership asks us to reconsider
Who This Episode Is For
• Nonprofit leaders who want more people on their team taking initiative.
• Teams who want meetings that draw on everyone's ideas and experience.
• Executive directors who want to share the responsibility for moving their organization forward.
• Leadership teams who want to develop solutions they couldn't create on their own.
About Your Host, Sarah Olivieri
Bold, strategic, and refreshingly human…
Sarah Olivieri is the go-to expert for conversations on aligned leadership, outcome delegation, and sustainable growth.
She brings wit, warmth, and real-world wisdom to mission-driven founders, visionary CEOs, and change-makers who want more clarity, more joy, and more results.
Most leaders hit a wall when success depends on them holding it all together.
Sarah helps them change that by redefining leadership around outcomes instead of activity, empowering teams to own results that scale and freeing leaders to focus on the vision that drives them.
A former director of three nonprofits and founder of five businesses, she has a rare ability to spot opportunity where others see chaos, shift stuck patterns, and build organizations that support both legacy and life.
Sarah leads with the same mindset that made her an award-winning sailor: iterate on what works, stay focused in the storm, and never forget the joy of the journey.
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