Reading the Room Before It Speaks

An attentive leader doesn't just read what is said. He captures what has not yet been articulated .

This is what makes the difference between a team that moves forward... and a team that waits for things to get out of hand before reacting.

🎯 I encourage you to read 3 things before the meeting even starts:

🔹 1. The atmosphere of the place. Is the atmosphere calm, tense, cold, or hectic? Are people exchanging spontaneously or waiting in silence?

💡 This is not trivial: emotional climate is often more reliable than words.

🔹 2. Body position (proxemics). Who sits where? Who groups together or isolates themselves? Who turns their back on the center of the group?

💡 Bodies betray alliances, avoidances, latent conflicts.

🔹 3. Physical micro-tensions (kinesics. Legs flailing, jaw clenched, arms crossed and held back...

💡 These signs can signal pent-up disagreement or tension about to explode.

🧭 What this changes:

👉 You no longer react after the conflict.

👉 You intervene before, subtly, at the moment when the link is still recoverable.

Leadership doesn't begin when you speak up. It begins when you open your eyes to what other people's bodies are already saying .

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