How you interact as a team impacts how you think about your business. If your team’s interactions are becoming predictable or languishing in a flat line, it might be time to stir things up. These four strategies can break stale habits in your team and raise the temperature in your meetings: First, be grounded in purpose. Before jumping in to change team dynamics, explain why. Reminding yourself and others about purpose keeps the focus on what the group is trying to achieve and reduces hurt feelings and drama. Second, describe behavioral data. Observe what behaviors are flying under the radar in your meetings and mention them to the team, so they’re aware. Third, invite multiple interpretations of why these behaviors are happening. Finally, disrupt defaults. use that new knowledge of the dynamics at play and why they’re happening to break familiar patterns.