You may be undermining what you're trying to accomplish with your team – and you don’t even know it. To find out, take this one-question quiz:
You need your team to agree on a new strategy. You have strong opinions about the best way to go, but you need everyone’s commitment to make the strategy work, so you want to make sure that the team “buys in”. But when you and your team are solving a problem together, a number of team members stop sharing different views after you have shared yours. To address this problem, you:
- Assure the team that you value their ideas and that the team’s strength comes from its diverse views.
- Ask for team members’ views first and share your views last.
- Offer to leave the room because you sense that some people aren’t speaking their minds.
- Tell the team as a group what you’ve noticed and why you’re raising the topic, and ask them what is leading them not to share their different views.
- Talk one-on-one to a team member that you trust and ask what’s going on.
Highly effective leaders use five principles to build results and relationships. See How You Think is How You Lead in our November Gifted Leaders e-Newsletter to see how your quiz answer matches these principles ...
Source: Roger Schwarz' Fundamental Change e-Zine
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