From the course: Developing Adaptability as a Manager
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Creating a safe space for team risk-tasking
From the course: Developing Adaptability as a Manager
Creating a safe space for team risk-tasking
- Good managers work to make themselves more adaptable. But they also ask the question: How can I encourage my team to become more nimble too? One simple but important answer is make them less afraid. For all we, as a culture, glorify Silicon Valley's fail fast and break things ethos, the truth is, in most of the corporate world failure still carries a steep penalty. That's not just big failures like New Coke or Enron imploding. Many employees, rightly or wrongly, feel that sometimes even saying the wrong thing or suggesting an idea that gets turned down is a form of failure. You can imagine that if they think that, they're not gonna be pushing the edges of innovation. It's a lot safer to stick to what's been done before, and that makes for a fairly unadapatable team. Here's how you as a manager can create more psychological safety for your team so they can fully grasp that mistakes aren't fatal, and they can feel free to learn, experiment, and innovate. First, it's important to…
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