I completely buy in to the need for the "right column," but I know that the teams that work out in the trenches also need to rally 'round each other and support the "out of my comfort zone" actions that are required here - especially for the more introverted among us.
I picture the "leader orientation aka fall teacher meeting" as a workshop itself: less a review of the content and more deliberately full of laughter and practicing technique after technique.
Anne