From the course: Collaborative Leadership
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Creating psychological safety
- Several years ago, I interviewed 358 senior managers in the U.S., Canada, and Europe, to find out why some people on their teams were reluctant to collaborate. From this research, here are three common mindsets of people who don't collaborate, and what leaders are doing to encourage them. Misers are team members who don't want to share what they know, because they believe that knowledge is power, and sharing would make them less valuable and secure. Hindsights reject collaboration, and instead fixate on the past, the good old days, because they fear they can't succeed in a new collaborative environment. Oracles see no need to collaborate, because they've already found the right answer. They view collaboration as a waste of time. When coaching misers, hindsights, and oracles, here are some insights from the leaders I interviewed. Help misers realize that hoarding knowledge may have been powerful in the past, but today, when the rapid pace of change makes knowledge obsolete so…
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