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title: Are You Guilty Of Swoop & Poop Leadership?
description: Learn how poop and swoop leadership creates chaos for your team— and how to share ideas in ways that set everyone up for success.
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# [Are You Guilty Of Swoop & Poop Leadership?](https://www.actdental.com/blog/are-you-guilty-of-swoop-poop-leadership)

 Written by [Kirk Behrendt](https://www.actdental.com/blog/author/kirk) | Oct 6, 2025 1:00:01 PM

 

You just spent an hour washing and waxing your car. It’s gleaming in the driveway, and you’re admiring your work when a seagull swoops down out of nowhere and leaves a fresh white mess right on your hood. You’re left standing there wondering what just happened, holding a dirty rag and dealing with the chaos.

Now picture your Monday morning team huddle. You burst through the door, fired up about a new patient experience idea you heard at a conference. You spend five minutes explaining your vision, tell everyone “we’re starting this next week,” then rush off to your first appointment.

Sound familiar? Congratulations—you’re a seagull.

You swoop in with big ideas, drop them on your team without context, and leave them to figure out the mess. Zero follow-up. No plan. No consideration for how this affects their day. You may think you’re being decisive, but your team thinks you’ve lost your mind.

It’s swoop and poop leadership.

Here’s the problem: Your team didn’t attend that conference. They don’t have access to the ideas in your head. When you dump a brilliant idea on them without that foundation, it just feels like more work.

Great leaders don’t poop and swoop—they land and stay. They show up with ideas and a plan. They provide context and follow-up. They’re accountable.

Before you unleash your next big idea, [test it before you launch it](https://www.actdental.com/blog/why-dentists-should-test-ideas-before-launch). Give yourself time to flesh out the details and consider how it affects each team member’s workflow.

Start being the leader who lands, listens, and actually helps clean up.

 

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