Every manager has been there. A task was assigned. The expectations seemed clear and understood. Time passes. It doesn’t get done.
Every parent has been there, too.
In fact, we've all been there with ourselves.
We tell ourselves, “I must do Task A by the end of the day on Tuesday.” Tuesday comes and goes, and we can’t help but notice that we failed to do the task.
Do this once, and the result is usually frustration or disappointment. Do it a few times and a pattern develops, and a pattern of broken commitments makes us angry.
That’s where the character judgments usually come in.
I started to write a different piece this week, my first after taking the summer off from writing, but there was something in the way.
The story begins with dogs and kids. You see, when our daughter, Abby, was about three, we had two dogs, Marlee and Neo, both standard size labradoodles. For little Abby, they had simply always been there. I think they occurred to her more like older siblings t...
Conquering each of Patrick Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team is a necessary, but not sufficient condition for overcoming the next.
Trust must be present for a team to engage in productive conflict, but it does not guarantee they will do so.
Conflict is essential for achieving clarity and buy-in, but it does not automatically result in commitment.
Commitment is required for team members to...
We are building a robust structure for high performance. Over the past three weeks, we have laid a foundation of vulnerability-based trust that enables the next essential behavior, productive conflict.
Through productive conflict we can create clarity and buy-in, which makes real commitment possible.
With this base of Trust, Conflict, and Commitment, the next behavior, Accountability, should be...
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