From the course: Leading and Working in Teams
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Learning from failure in teams
From the course: Leading and Working in Teams
Learning from failure in teams
- Teaming rarely unfolds perfectly without any bumps or glitches along the way. That is, without any failures. This means that the ability to learn from failure is an essential teaming skill. Why is this so difficult? Why are we so uncomfortable with failure? Well, it starts from how we view failure. At an early age, we learn that it's not okay to fail. The good people are the ones that don't make mistakes, that don't fail. And yet, to learn you need to fail. Small failures are an important part of the journey toward success. So what can leaders do? While most leaders say they understand the importance of failure to the learning process, not many truly embrace it. Even companies that have invested significant money and effort into becoming learning organizations struggle when it comes to the day to day mindset and activities of learning from failure. When managers think about failure the wrong way, when they think failure is always bad, it's hard for people to learn from it. So the…
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